Business
The economy
Opinion
Foreign investment
Foreign investors make huge profits in Australia, we should have a fair share
And the call by big business to lower the company tax rate to attract or keep foreign investment is just a try-on.
- by Ross Gittins
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Opinion
Global economy
Off a cliff: India's economy has more problems than the pandemic
Don't let anyone tell you the pandemic is the main reason India's growth has cratered.
- by Mihir Sharma
Wall Street
Federal Reserve caps US bank dividend payments after stress tests
Shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo & Co and Goldman Sachs tumbled in after-hours trading on the news, having risen earlier in the day.
- by Pete Schroeder and David Henry
Coronavirus pandemic
The US sent $2b in virus relief payments to dead people
While the tax department has asked the families of the deceased to return the money, it's not clear they have to.
- by Marcy Gordon
Coronavirus pandemic
World faces COVID debt time bomb, warns former Bank of England chief
Coronavirus-related debts could spark the next financial crisis, with countries borrowing trillions of dollars to fight the pandemic, former Bank of England governor Mervyn King has warned.
- by Liam Halligan and Russell Lynch
Editorial
Coronavirus pandemic
Qantas job cuts show danger of an economic hard landing
The federal government must wind back wage subsidies but replace them with public investment.
- The Herald's View
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
No country is an island in the COVID collapse
Welcome to the first truly global recession of the modern era.The corona downturn disrespects national borders and is contemptuous of differences between regions and levels of economic development.
- by Daniel Moss
Wall Street
Bad investment: Wall Street spent heavily as it tried and failed to take down AOC
The calibre of the Wall Street executives who tried and failed to topple Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York signifies the threat they perceive from her.
- by Tory Newmyer
Opinion
Federal budget
Long-term ramifications of crisis are becoming clearer
The IMF is forecasting co-ordinated contractions in advanced and emerging economies this year for the first time since the Great Depression.
- by Jessica Irvine
Opinion
Global economy
Signs of a global recovery are encouraging, but don't pop the champagne yet
Surveys of economic activity in the US, Europe and Australia are showing signs of a rebound in the world economy. But they could be deceptive.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
University
It hasn't taken Scott Morrison long to start playing friends and enemies
Unis will become even more of a sausage factory if the Prime Minister's fee changes go ahead.
- by Ross Gittins