fiscal policy

The US budget deficit is over US$2T for the last year - that's almost 8% of GDP, highest since the GFC.

In financial markets, there’s always something to worry about.

The RBA is fighting inflation with higher rates but how effective will it be without suitable fiscal policy support?

Everybody knows that consumer prices in Australia, Britain, the U.S. and other countries have risen rapidly over the past year, and most investors know that they’re...

The Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm is a selection of 10 charts that I handpicked from around the web and from Twitter posts. The purpose of this wire is to add extra...

A new report projects that the deficits across the key States will be up to $11 billion smaller in FY22 and up to $18 billion smaller in FY23. Coolabah Capital's...

Global economies and financial markets are now entering the late stages of the business cycle. Fiscal stimulus has peaked and household purchasing power from savings...

September and October are typically weak seasonal times for equity markets. So far, for September, the ASX200, S&P500 and MSCI World ex-Australia in Australian dollar...

With sweeping lockdowns and a rampant Delta strain, the optimism that was slowly bubbling in June soon dwindled. Economic activity is set to contract, yet in...

Last year brought fiscal stimulus to the world's economy at a scale never seen before. In Australia alone, the government spent $257 billion in direct economic...

Producers in both China and the US are facing higher costs, prompting growing concerns that inflation could threaten the global economy – but China isn’t waiting to...

Global markets have started 2021 with the same enthusiasm for the global reflation trade that has been driving markets since November of last year. We too are focusing...

I write in the AFR this weekend that Standard & Poor’s has confirmed that Australia’s AAA rating is rock-solid despite downgrading both NSW and Victoria...

In the AFR today I write that Reserve Bank of Australia governor Phil Lowe’s greatest legacy will be the fusion he has forged between fiscal and monetary policy since...

The tsunami of monetary and fiscal stimulus this year is a continuation of the policies implemented when the Financial Crisis began. When these first started the few...

In case you missed it, there was another event on yesterday - one that featured bonds and bankers rather than whips and jockeys. The RBA had their November meeting...

As the country pulls itself out of a global crisis we see both monetary and fiscal stimulus working overtime, presenting an opportunity like no other for small caps....

Amazon, Google, Woolworths, Tesla. No this isn’t an Ari Gold sales pitch(1) but rather a list of recent contract announcements by ASX companies we’ve seen greeted...

Do Low Rates of Interest Really Support Markets? On 10 September, I concluded that they don’t. This article explores one of this result’s major implications: investors...

I was recently asked whether it is really true that the AA and AAA rated state governments are having to pay materially more to raise capital to fund their budget...