Alan Kohler
Alan Kohler: The Reserve Bank is being politicised
The central recommendation of last year’s RBA Review has been chewed up and spat out by politics, and in the process the...
Alan Kohler: What Albanese and Chalmers should do next
It is, or should be, the solemn duty of a first-term government to take a program of reform to its first election...
Alan Kohler: Where is Australia’s real prosperity going to come from now?
The boom in immigration and the shift in the economy from goods to services has made the normal aggregate data that the...
Alan Kohler: The Fujiwara Effect – three cyclones of the modern world
If you’re wondering how we got into this mess, Viktor Shvets explains it well in his new book, The Twilight Before the...
Alan Kohler: How Australia’s broken immigration system caused a housing crisis
One of the most important causes of Australia’s housing affordability crisis is excess immigration over many years, and the problem with immigration...
Alan Kohler: Housing ‘to do’ list to start tackling crisis
Australia has a new federal Housing Minister, Clare O’Neil, who is by all accounts energetic and open to new ideas. That’s good...
Alan Kohler: The end of the tech bubble and the rise of the humanoid machines
Fears of a recession in the United States have brought the great artificial intelligence boom/bubble to shuddering halt. The Nasdaq has dropped...
Alan Kohler: There’s a lot at stake in Reno, Nevada
Imagine a world without Donald Trump and his mini me, James David Vance, and Rupert Murdoch and his mini me, Lachlan Murdoch....
Alan Kohler: With Joe Biden out, can Kamala Harris beat Trump and Vance?
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”, said Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and so it was last...
Alan Kohler: Victoria’s rail loop is a travesty; its housing plan is good, but doomed
Victoria’s $200 billion suburban rail loop (SRL) will be a horribly expensive white elephant that will get in the way of solving...