This “wimpy” budget tells us one thing: the election campaign is here.

Some quickfire analysis from Greg Jericho, Chief Economist

The Australian Government can’t afford to do everything, but it can afford to do anything it wants.

Looking to buy a house? Having a good job that pays good money probably won’t be enough.

The dream of saving for a deposit on a house is now so far beyond most poeple that even if you have a high paying job, you still can never save enough.

In the last three months of 2024 a record number of Australians were working multiple jobs

Australia’s per capita recession is over, but the United States economy could be in for much worse.

The Government is being grilled by the media about how it will pay for its changed to Medicare – but why are journalists not asking the same questions of Australia’s expensive and unfair tax concessions?

The Reserve Bank has cut interest rates for the first time since November 2020 – so is the Australian economy out of the woods?

And some of you get annexed (maybe).

Slashing public service jobs won’t make government more efficient.

Superannuation tax concessions benefit the richest Australians most – so why is the government finding it so hard to make modest changes to the system?

In the wake of the catastrophic LA fires, how do the Australian major parties shape up on climate policy?

Just some things.

We answer your burning questions about the economy in the final episode of 2024.

Immigration and public spending are barely keeping Australia out of a recession.

Trump says he’s going to make other countries pay with a sweeping new tariff regime – but in reality, everyone will lose.