Consumers and politicians blame cage-free egg laws and bird flu outbreaks for high egg prices. But the root cause is an outdated supply chain system.
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In the Albanese government’s last federal budget before the election, new spending promises are likely to be limited.
Australia’s farm exports face a range of barriers to trade besides tariffs.
Non-executive directors are supposed to provide a company’s management with independent perspectives. Does the experience gained by letting them stay long-term outweigh the independence lost?
The rise of the information economy has been one of the biggest transformations of the Australian economic landscape since the start of the millennium.
The next round of tariffs will breach the free trade agreement with the US. These sectors are next in line for new tariffs.
It might be time to go back to a simpler approach, when one set of rules applied to all consumer credit products.
Nigeria needs a broad-based coalition of developmentalist elites.
There’s an urgent need to protect younger Australians, and in particular men, at greatest risk of gambling harm. Here is one effective way this can be achieved.
Clean air has become one of America’s best investments, returning $10 for every $1 spent on regulations, by one estimate.
The tariffs pose a fundamental challenge to Australia’s trade strategy in a protectionist world.
When it comes to large companies’ tax disclosure, the influence of the CEO is critical.
It’s too early to make a full estimate of the costs of Alfred’s impacts. But previous natural disasters give us a framework for thinking about them.
Stamp duty costs Victorians about $9 billion a year. There are more efficient ways to tax property.
Growing climate risk means growing costs of natural disasters. As premiums have risen by 300%, these are costs that households simply can’t afford.
One of Australia’s most valuable social surveys also found a record number of households have been affected by natural disasters.
Nigeria revised the way inflation is measured but many Nigerians still feel that the cost of living remains high.
Household and government spending contributed to the strongest growth in two years, data on Wednesday showed.
The shock will fall hardest on consumers, certain industries, and states that are sensitive to supply-chain disruptions.
It all comes down to uncertainty.
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