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Michael Pascoe: RBA jawbone has done its job with consumers

Consumer sentiment normally has a political bias – voters for the government of the day survey more optimistically than those…

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Michael Pascoe’s The Summertime of Our Dreams and the need to choose words carefully

Michael Pascoe reveals the emotional journey that helped spur him write his very personal memoir, The Summertime of Our Dreams.

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Michael Pascoe: ‘God’s plan’ – blaming God for human failures is a bit rich

“It’s all God’s plan” is a seductive little belief, appealing in its echo of the sort of thinking that gave…

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Michael Pascoe: ‘Everyone’ was wrong about wages – and they may be again

Workers don’t think their boss is open to giving a fat pay increase, writes Michael Pascoe. Fears of a a…

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Michael Pascoe: But what if the inflation hawks are wrong …

“Generals always fight the last war” – and that could be the case with the world’s inflation hawks now. It’s…

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Michael Pascoe: The parable of the moussaka – challenges drive productivity

It sometimes takes difficulties and challenges to force us to change, to drive innovation. So it goes in the parable…

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Covid and Brexit behind surge in fake ecstasy pills made from psychosis-inducing drug

The sale of party drugs saw a slump during the lockdown and they are now thought to be mixed with…

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A Ponzi scheme is a Ponzi scheme, crypto or otherwise

A facet of the crashing crypto game has reminded me of a journalistic failure 25 years ago, a story that…

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How Covid and Brexit led to drug users being sold fake ecstasy

Nearly half of samples measured as part of a study by Cardiff University researchers contained none of the party drug

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Brexit helping cause harmful increase in fake ecstasy, study warns

Covid and crackdowns also blamed as researchers find half of pills sold as MDMA at festivals in England contained none…

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Michael Pascoe: The RBA is hunting down the bezzle

Most of what is pushing up prices now won’t be affected by increasing interest rates – but higher rates will…

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Michael Pascoe: Now Morrison fibs about immigration

Given the frequency of Scott Morrison telling lies, telling the AFR a fib about immigration levels just before an election…

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Michael Pascoe: Housing crisis? Look over there – a puppy!

Neither of the parties that will form government next week wants to confront the nation’s immediate need or offer large-scale…

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Michael Pascoe: Everyone is wrong about a 5.1 per cent minimum wage rise

The government knows how miserable the real-world outcome is for people on low wages suffering excruciating effective marginal tax rates.

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Michael Pascoe: We want inflation but not a higher cost of living. Go figure that one

While nobody seems to want the cost of living to be higher, it is official policy to push inflation higher…

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Michael Pascoe: Federal and NSW Liberal Party delivering for developers

With mud still being hosed out of houses, the NSW Planning Minister scrapped a requirement to consider the risks of…

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Michael Pascoe: Josh Frydenberg discovers his Magic Pudding

Like St Paul to the Corinthians, Josh Frydenberg is to become “all things to all people” on Budget night later…

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Michael Pascoe: RBA gently points out we don’t have an AUKUS economy

You know the old cliché “if America sneezes, Australia catches a cold”? It’s very last century and long overdue for…

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Michael Pascoe: Get set for Frydenberg infrastructure spinning

The press gallery naively swallowed Josh Frydenberg’s pre-budget infrastructure spin last year, so there’s every reason to expect he’ll repeat…

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Michael Pascoe: Housing no longer a crisis – it’s much worse than that

Wake up, Australia: The usual headlines shouting “housing crisis!” no longer describe the reality – this is a national housing…

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Michael Pascoe: Politics is erasing Kissinger’s achievement

During the Winter Olympics, headlines suggested America had undone Henry Kissinger’s strategy of weakening Russia by engaging with China.

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Michael Pascoe: Morrison government failures to deliver are even worse than they look

The Morrison government’s hallmark of making big announcements but failing to deliver looks bad – broken promises being a subset…

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Michael Pascoe: Warning! Warning, Scott Morrison! Voters are paying attention!

It would take an extraordinary mixture of hubris, tin ear and stupidity to lose Gladys Berejiklian’s blue-ribbon seat and ignite…

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Michael Pascoe: The chutzpah of calling black white

It takes a certain chutzpah to call black white with a straight face, but that’s what Josh Frydenberg and Peter…

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Michael Pascoe: Guess what? The RBA does not run the economy

You could be forgiven for thinking the only thing that matters for growing the economy is what the RBA board…

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