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Where have all the fiscal hawks gone? We need to find some – and quickly

Politics in the democratic world has moved decisively against fiscal responsibility. A reckoning looms for the global economy.

  • Michael Brennan

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RBA chief economist Sarah Hunter says higher interest rates and tax changes will affect the housing market.

Rates and tax will take steam out of property market,says RBA

Higher interest rates and changes to taxes around housing are likely to cool the housing market.

  • Shane Wright andMike Foley
Donald Trump’s summit meeting with Xi Jinping failed to produce a concrete offer of help from China to re-open the strait

Trump faces a reckoning as the markets start to wobble

The US president returned home from his trip to China without the main thing markets wanted.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
The budget in charts.

How exactly is your money being spent? Five charts that really explain the budget

Here are the charts that tell you the budget’s outlook for households and the economy.

  • Clancy Yeates andCraig Butt
Kevin Warsh was on the Fed’s board when its first bout of quantitative easing began in response to the 2008 financial crisis,but has been a QE critic since leaving the board in 2011.

Trump’s man is set to make the president very angry

Kevin Warsh is getting ready to sit on one of the hottest seats in America. He just found out he won’t be able to deliver what Donald Trump expects from him.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivers his budget speech.

Albanese gambles on support from younger Australians as he dramatically shifts wealth

In an extraordinary political gamble,Albanese broke his election promise not to touch tax concessions as Treasurer Jim Chalmers revealed a budget night overhaul of negative gearing,capital gains tax and trusts.

  • Paul Sakkal
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US President Donald Trump during a Mother’s Day luncheon at the White House on Friday.

The pain of Trump’s war could get even worse

Even if Donald Trump is able to strike a lasting peace deal – a big if – the impacts of the war will be felt long into the future.

  • Clancy Yeates
Intergenerational inequity

Tax reform is not enough – to help the young,wages need to buy more

With inflation surging again,it is critical that government gets control over the high prices hitting workers’ incomes.

  • Alison Pennington
Treasurer Jim Chalmers

Chalmers’ budget tax cuts on one-year delay

A potential one-off tax offset for wage earners is expected to be handed to voters at tax time in 2027 rather than this financial year.

  • Shane Wright andPaul Sakkal
Betting the house? Jim Chalmers’ big budget gamble.

Betting the house:Jim Chalmers’ big budget gamble

Anthony Albanese’s ultimate political gamble is now in the hands of Jim Chalmers – and he wants to go big.

  • Shane Wright andNatassia Chrysanthos