Michael Pascoe
Michael Pascoe: Lazy or loyal? Call it what you will, it’s still expensive
I think I conceived the term “lazy tax”. If not, I was there at its birth – the extra billions consumers pay...
Michael Pascoe: Just because the horse is dead doesn’t mean the RBA won’t flog it
The RBA board stood around the prone horse on Tuesday morning in the Martin Place stables, stroking their chins, wondering what to...
Michael Pascoe: Why Dutton and Liberals won’t admit Berejiklian did the wrong thing
Gladys Berejiklian’s friends, sympathetic followers and sundry political flunkies are unhappy the ICAC found she engaged in “serious corrupt conduct” – but...
Michael Pascoe: RBA needs a Window Cleaners Index
Reserve Bank mandarins love a good liaison, but I fear they’re doing it with the wrong sort of people. Liaising, especially “business...
Michael Pascoe: The Greens’ HAFF-witted bid to make a complete farce of housing policy
“It feels like we’ve won, lads,” England’s cricket coach, Brendon ‘Baz’ McCullum, told his team after it lost the first Test this...
Michael Pascoe: Speech shows RBA clueless on employment
You can rely on the Reserve Bank to miss or downplay a major factor or two when it strays into what’s actually...
Michael Pascoe: IKEA and Netflix tax scandal overshadows shameful PwC saga
Overshadowed by PwC’s scandal of peddling inside information to help multinational companies avoid tax is the bigger ongoing scandal of multinational companies...
Michael Pascoe: In defence of the RBA (no, seriously)
There is stuff not being spelt out about the Reserve Bank, Philip Lowe, interest rate increases, politicians’ reactions and what is ahead...
Michael Pascoe: The heartbreak of losing a beloved dog like Nixon
On Monday I tested positive for COVID. On Tuesday my dog died. It sounds like the start of a country and western...
Michael Pascoe: Is the RBA acting out of spite or just lost the plot?
Passing without notice in April, the Reserve Bank pulled a neat little trick, apparently making multiple billions of dollars in losses “disappear”....