Over the next few weeks, the Reserve Bank will ponder just how strong the economy is.

The faux-debate over nuclear energy is a distraction from the main game – reducing our emissions to address the climate crisis, says Greg Jericho.

The sham of Australia’s climate change policy has been made clear in the past two weeks.

At a time of major uncertainty in the economy, Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock’s honesty is refreshing, says Greg Jericho.

The Reserve Bank’s decision to keep rates steady reinforced that the economy at this moment remains one with both good and bad signs, and the RBA governor, Michele Bullock, is refreshingly upfront about the difficulties.

The government is trying to strike a delicate balance in the economy, getting inflation down without sending the country into recession, says Greg Jericho.

Over the past few weeks some economists and commentators have become rather obsessed and unhinged about Australia’s inflation rate.

Near-zero economic growth is a good sign of how bad things are, says Greg Jericho.

The latest GDP figures reveal that the RBA has got its wish of an economy growing so slowly that it teeters on the edge of a recession.

Inflation has stopped falling, but there’s no need for a further rate hike, says Greg Jericho.

Inflation isn’t falling as fast as most economists want, but a rate rise now would do more harm than good, says Greg Jericho.

The latest inflation figures released on Wednesday showed that inflation is “sticky” and is no longer falling at the pace it was earlier this year.

According to the Productivity Commission, wealth inequality declined during the COVID years due to boosted government support payments. And when those payments finished, predictably inequality went back up. The overwhelming majority of gains from economic growth since the GFC have gone to the wealthiest people. On this episode, Greg Jericho discusses inequality, poverty, and government

On Monday the Productivity Commission released its snapshot of inequality report.

The pandemic and runaway inflation reversed more than a decade of progress on living standards in just two years – and it’s going to be a long wait for them to inch back, says Greg Jericho.

Remember all that talk about wage-price spirals? About wages driving inflation? All that worry about a wages breakout causing interest rates to rise? Ahh yes, good times.

A bigger surplus this year and a bit bigger deficit next year! Does it matter?

Inflation will remain higher for longer, but a recession is not the solution, says Greg Jericho.

Calling for a ‘short recession’ as an economist is like calling for a ‘small war’ knowing you’ll never be on the frontlines, says Greg Jericho.

It seems that some people really want a recession.

The government has the power to make significant and long-awaited improvements to the JobSeeker scheme in this federal budget, but it has to make it a priority, says Greg Jericho.

Budgets are about choices – and successive governments have chosen to punish jobseekers, says Greg Jericho.

If the government decided to make raising Jobseeker a priority in the Budget it would not talk about not being able to afford it, writes Greg Jericho.

Despite what the fearmongers would have you believe, the latest inflation figures showed that inflation remains well under control.