Ross Gittins
Ross Gittins is the Economics Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
- Opinion
- Home loans
The RBA says changing rates won’t raise house prices. I wouldn’t be so sure
The biggest and most pressing economic problem Australia faces is nothing new: the ever-worsening ability to afford to own the home you live in.
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- Climate policy
Trump says climate change is a hoax. Are we in safer hands with the ‘commos’?
China is the great contradiction. It’s the world’s biggest single emitter, accounting for about 30 per cent of global emissions, but it’s the country doing most to move to renewables.
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- Wellbeing
Seeking the positive-sum economy where everyone wins a prize
Progressive economists have been banging on about “abundance”, but what’s it all about? Labor’s Andrew Leigh has explained it.
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- Retirement living
More Boomers are choosing not to retire. Why? They don’t want to
One in four 70-year-old men are still working, up from one in ten 20 years ago. And about 10 per cent of men in their late 70s are still working.
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- Paris Agreement
Albanese takes his usual each-way bet on climate change
If there was an Oscar for fooling the punters, the PM and his climate change minister would win it.
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- AI
AI: Much ado about something that one day may be important
World-changing technologies such as artificial intelligence are never as wonderful as the marketing department claimed, nor as terrible as their critics feared.
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- Foreign investment
We’re going up in the financial world, but no one’s noticed
Australia may be on its way to becoming a “switcher nation” – moving from a global debtor to a global creditor.
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- Superannuation
Our future prosperity is bright. We’ve hidden an ace up our sleeve
Doomster economists predicting that our standard of living won’t improve much for decades are overlooking Australia’s superpower.
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- Company tax
Why we’d be mugs to cut the company tax rate
Our rate of 30 per cent is high among the rich countries, so surely this must be discouraging business investment? Sorry, but it’s not that simple.
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- Anthony Albanese
If Albanese’s lost his bottle, he should retire
Under the leadership of Anthony Albanese, Labor has lost its reforming zeal. It knows we have plenty of problems, and would like to do something about them, but not yet.
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