Michael Pascoe

Toll-road forecasters' flights of fancy

Michael Pascoe Totally botching an alleged "core competency" four times in a row at the cost of many billions of dollars, well, that takes a special talent.

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Unsustainable pensioners

Michael Pascoe Thursday is pay rise day for the nation's age pensioners. It's a little unfortunate it's not going to be sustainable.

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Quietly dumping Holdens

Michael Pascoe Australian tax payers are subsidising US car buyers to very expensively preserve a few blue-collar jobs in Melbourne and Adelaide - according to Bill Shorten's definition.

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High price of the true-blue protectionists

Michael Pascoe Australian tax payers are subsidising US car buyers to preserve a few blue-collar jobs.

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Blame all round for the resources rent tax

Michael Pascoe It’s been a miserable week for the mineral resources rent tax and all who have ever had anything remotely to do with it – including the Liberal Party.

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Consumer sentiment up, spruikers surging, it must bull

Michael Pascoe Consumer sentiment jumps, there’s a surge in advertising for get-rich-quick spruikers, the newsletter peddlers are turning from fear to greed – with the surge in bull, it really might be a bull...

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Packer rolls the dice with dazzling PR blitz

Michael Pascoe There's no point anyone else bothering to enter the Public Relations Institute of Australia's Golden Target awards this year - Team Packer blitzed all possible entries last night by taking over...

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Thank the jobless for home loan savings

Michael Pascoe On the face of it, today's labour force statistics are more of the same, but there's something happening under the surface.

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Lessons of a banker's lunch leave lot to digest

Michael Pascoe It's taken just 21 hours to make the Reserve Bank's decision to sit pat look a little 'brave'.

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Retail sales – missing ingredient in the RBA stew

Michael Pascoe It’s taken just 21 hours to make yesterday’s Reserve Bank decision to sit pat look a little “brave” and not the sure thing market economists were tipping.

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Next rate cut up to the banks

Michael Pascoe The RBA is willing and has room to trim rates further if the world turns nastier - but it's in no hurry to do so.

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Building Victoria: Who wants to pay more tax?

Michael Pascoe I had no idea that the Victorian economy was as hopelessly stuffed as local industry leaders claimed today.

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The week that was with Michael Pascoe

Michael Pascoe Julia has two hopes: that it takes more than eight months for Craig Thomson's case to be heard and that Tony Abbott remains the opposition leader.

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Super's tax concession blowout comes at a cost

Michael Pascoe When Abbott rules out changes to super only in his first year as PM, you know both parties are taking aim.

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Treasury takes aim at super perks

Michael Pascoe When Treasury fingers superannuation as being the nation’s biggest tax concession, surpassing even owner-occupied housing’s privileges, you know it's in the firing line.

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Carnegie and raiding party face credibility test over next target

Michael Pascoe Qantas deal not insider trading, but one might wonder if it is something rather close to it.

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Statistics show there's no reason to whinge

Michael Pascoe People working for the man last year suffered barely any rise in inflation.

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Barely any inflation - if you're an employee

Michael Pascoe Here's a factual story you won't believe: employees last year suffered barely any rise in inflation, defying all the talk of rising cost-of-living pressures.

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Gingering up a Qantas profit

Michael Pascoe Did the Carnegie crew know something about Qantas that the rest of the market did not? It's a reasonable question.

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