Alan Kohler

The belief that young people can go without luxury items to fund their first house may live on for some, but the goal of owning their own home is becoming increasingly impossible for many young Australians.

It will be nowhere near as consequential, but the next battle in the war between the Right and the Left that started with the French Revolution

AI chip maker Nvidia was briefly the world's most valuable company last week, having risen 40 per cent in a month, which is what small companies do, not big ones like that.

House prices are up for the sixteenth month in a row Carousel

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”, said Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and so it was last week, starting with the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

“Getting off the gas” seems to be easier said than done. A bit like giving up smoking, or Dry July. But two recent examples in Australia show how it can be done — there are hard ways and easy ways. But no patches or vapes for this one. Why does Australia need to get off gas? Apart from the existential crisis of climate change, there is the looming European Union Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. Approximately 11% of Australia’s exports go to the EU. Plus, gas is expensive.

Fears of a recession in the United States have brought the great artificial intelligence boom/bubble to shuddering halt.

Australia has a new federal Housing Minister, Clare O'Neil, who is by all accounts energetic and open to new ideas.

If you're wondering how we got into this mess, Viktor Shvets explains it well in his new book, The Twilight Before the Storm: From the Fractured 1930s to Today's Crisis Culture – How to Avoid a World on Fire.

The boom in immigration and the shift in the economy from goods to services has made the normal aggregate data that the ABS measures meaningless.