Royal commission shows bank lenders don’t ‘get’ farming, and rural economies pay the price
The commission has heard that banks still don’t really “get” the vagaries of farming and that farm valuations have become fluid and unpredictable.
How will the current volatility in the stock market cause our property markets to crash?
You’d have to be living under a rock not to ha…
According to Dr. Phillip Lowe, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia Melbourne and Sydney’s high property prices are partly explained by…
By Richard Holden, UNSW
In this column, UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden looks at changes to how inflation is calc…
The Australian Bankers’ Association (ABA) says small businesses are benefiting from record-low low interest rates on business loans, but whe…
The Australian Bankers Association says it has agreed to make life easier when it comes to credit card interest, but one finance expert warn…
By Dominic Powell and Emma Koehn.
The administrators of embattled fashion retailer SurfStitch say a restructure is on the cards that co…
By Harry Scheule, University of Technology Sydney
The view of Australian banks on the risk that mortgage stress poses to our economy and…
How well-positioned are you for a significant interest rate rise?
Each month the board members of the Reserve Bank meets to discuss the s…
Here’s my first property forecast for 2017: most property forecasts will be wrong!
If 2016 taught us anything, it taught us to expect the…
By Katherine Hunt, Griffith University
The Reserve Bank kept interest rates at a record low of 1.5% on Tuesday. Such low rates create ec…
By Abbas Valadkhani, Swinburne University of Technology
When Australia’s central bank moves interest rates as part of its monetary pol…
