Alan Kohler
Alan Kohler: Four years on and optimism is a little harder to come by
My first column for The New Daily not quite four years ago, was a bright, cheerful effort, listing the reasons to feel...
Alan Kohler: Forget The Day of the Jackal, this is The Day of the 100k Bitcoin
-Warning: contains TV spoilers- The value of Bitcoin hit its long-awaited milestone of US$100,000 ($156,000) on Thursday December 5. That was also...
The prosperity and welfare of the Australian people have been dumped
When the RBA Review panel finished its work in March 2023, the cash rate was 3.6 per cent and the Reserve Bank...
Alan Kohler: With immigration and Trump, don’t expect quick RBA rate cuts
A couple of months ago economists and futures punters were 100 per cent sure the Reserve Bank would cut interest rates by...
Alan Kohler: Can Dutton do a Trump? Unlikely – a populist needs to be popular
When Donald Trump won in 2016, I wrote that this was the first technological revolution in which the losers were able to...
Alan Kohler: Seven columns in one on the US election
There are so many aspects to Tuesday’s US election, it feels like one column simply won’t do. So, here’s seven of them....
Alan Kohler: Housing affordability is largely a matter of tax reform
The Victorian government’s blizzard of housing announcements this month, mainly directed at building a lot of high-rise apartments in 50 close-in neighbourhoods...
Alan Kohler: Australia’s bulls–t climate policies
The climate policies of both of Australia’s main political parties are based on bulls–t. It’s part of a general malaise in policymaking...
Alan Kohler: Trump won’t be the last dishonest demagogue; the next will be better at it
According to the latest polling, 43.1 per cent of Americans have a favourable view of Donald Trump and 46 per cent say...
Will Israel take this chance to end its perpetual crisis?
On the one-year anniversary of the terrible Hamas attacks on Israeli citizens, the price of oil is still US$10 per barrel below...