Employment data can be an important bell weather of broader economic activity. Rising unemployment is generally associated with declining economic activity while the opposite is general…

Australia’s system of housing construction is in serious trouble, if the latest building activity data is anything to go by. In the June quarter of 2023, far from reducing as more houses were c…

Mortgage holders know that in recent years the proportion of income needed to service a loan has increased significantly. Increased interest rates, coupled with the growth in the size of ave…

Australia’s approvals of new dwellings fell to a decadal low year-ended August 2023, declining to 169,212 separate approvals, recording a 13.1% fall on the prior year. In August 2013, annua…

If economists were engaged on the success of their forecasts, they would fill the queues of the world’s soup kitchens. The agencies – domestic and international alike – that employ them would…

Inflation has been at the forefront of the economic narrative since interest rates started moving upwards in May 2022. At that time, inflation was running at 5.1% annualised, and peaked in De…