Michael Pascoe

It was a remarkable Reserve Bank board meeting this month, but not because of anything to do with monetary policy.

The vast majority of what is written and said about Australian housing is either nonsense, property porn, clickbait or lies.

Michael Pascoe: Pearl-clutching outbreak over spooks spooking

Michael Pascoe: Wanted - a government game to try this housing fix

It is hilarious to witness the PM and media titans howling over the $70 million Mark Zuckerberg refuses to pay our biggest media companies.

“Good policy makes good politics” was a Paul Keating maxim. The corollary is that politics without principle makes bad policy.

Same old same old from the Reserve Bank – a captive of the expectations it creates, locked in the narrow vision of its brutally blunt and inefficient interest rate cudgel, lacking the confidence required to admit a mistake.

Australia’s biggest China lie is that we’re spending half a trillion dollars on boats to protect our sea lanes.

Inflation and cost of living are critical for Treasurer Jim Chalmers when he hands down the Federal Budget on Tuesday. But Michael Pascoe says he can kill two birds with one stone.

For all the headlines proclaiming either deficit doom or cost-of-living largesse, as the budget dust settles we're left with a timid effort fiddling around edges, much bigger on rhetoric than substance.