The puzzle Last month, federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers released the 2026 Intergenerational Report, and its productivity ...

Last Tuesday, the Reserve Bank lifted the cash rate to 4.6 per cent, a 15-year high, and, beyond the expected economic impacts, created a political problem for our leaders. Federal Treasurer Jim ...

Copper prices have surged in recent years, as the chart below shows. Demand is booming, while supply can’t respond quickly. As I discussed recently on an Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance livestream, I ...

Queensland’s credit rating downgrade from AA+ to AA by S&P was expected at some stage, but it was still painful. Queensland has been relegated to the same group as Victoria and Tasmania, both states ...

Public debt was once politically toxic. Governments feared deficits, voters worried about borrowing, and treasurers celebrated fiscal discipline. Today, that instinct has weakened. Debt is no longer ...

Free trade has long been one of the most widely accepted ideas in economics. The logic is compelling: countries specialise in what they do best, trade with one another, and everyone is better off ...

This article examines the economics behind Australia’s capital gains tax (CGT) discount, prompted by a recent policy debate about whether the discount should be reduced. It draws on a clip from an ...

The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) has released a new explanatory video based on Adept Economics Director Gene Tunny’s paper, Gorillas in the Mist: How Government Obscures Its Spending. The ...

Adept Economics’ Research Economist, Arturo Espinoza, recently attended a specialist course on productivity and economic performance delivered by Professor Christopher O’Donnell from UQ Economics. The ...

Gold isn’t usually the star of the show in Australia’s economic story. We talk far more about iron ore, LNG, coal, and even lithium. Yet over the past couple of years, gold has quietly muscled its way ...