Michael Pascoe
Michael Pascoe: Memo G20 – there is a greater enemy than China to fight
When Earth faces an existential threat in the movies – aliens, rogue asteroids, that sort of thing – human beings unite to...
The mess left by the Coalition is (almost) overwhelming
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. To deal with the steaming mountain of ineptitude, corruption and failure...
Michael Pascoe: Will NSW’s political parties put people before donors? Don’t bet on it
Hats off to the poker machine lobby for getting the New South Wales Labor Party to dumbly swallow a twisted interpretation of...
Tide going out on Buy Now, Pay Later
Bigger losses, rising defaults, crashing share prices and looming regulation – the tide is going out fast on last year’s stock market...
Michael Pascoe: Innocent victims of the great inflation conundrum
The Economics 101 picture the Reserve Bank paints of inflation fighting doesn’t tell near the full story. The people suffering from the...
Michael Pascoe: NSW Crime Commission puts price on politicians’ heads
It wasn’t as bad as taking out the trash on, say, Christmas Eve, but the NSW Government and Opposition escaped relatively...
Michael Pascoe: The budget without reply
Next Thursday the Sydney Liberal Party faithful are being invited to pay $880 a seat for lunch and to listen to a...
Michael Pascoe: What’s with the Murdoch empire re-merger?
Nothing like Murdoch family business machinations to fuel speculation about motives and outcomes and so it is with the news that, nine...
Michael Pascoe: Trussonomics lives on in Australia – and via our man at the UN
Trussonomics lives on in Australia – and via our man at the UN. Liz Truss is gone as British Prime Minister, but the...
Michael Pascoe: Albo does a ‘Joshy’ on infrastructure – and everybody falls for it
There are a couple of ways of looking at it. Maybe it’s just a matter of compulsory political ritual, like holding babies...