inflation

The first half of 2021 has provided no shortage of ‘big picture’ topics to be concerned about: take your pick between the pace of vaccine-rollouts, ongoing border...

Variations in vaccination progress and economic stimulus have delayed synchronization of the global economic recovery. The U.S. is expected to lead the recovery in...

Google searches for “inflation” are higher now than at any time since such things were first measured around 13 years ago. It’s partly a natural reaction to the...

Long-term readers of Livewire will be familiar with the views of strategist Chris Watling, the founder and chief economist of London-based Longview Economics....

The mother of all “unknown unknowns” (to borrow some tortured phrasing from former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who passed away on Friday) hit the world a...

MLC Asset Management's Jonathan Armitage has navigated a crisis or two during his working life and argues that this time, it is different. At the dawn of his career,...

With EOFY comes sales, parties and, of course, tax returns. It also presents an opportunity to reflect on the year to date and reassess the composition of your...

Equity markets are currently at all-time highs. This has generated returns that, we believe, are unlikely to continue, so we need to think about where returns are...

Recently, there’s been a lot of discussion about whether the significant government stimulus, combined with record low interest rates and unconventional monetary...

The biggest question for markets globally is how high will inflation reach and for how long. To understand why it’s such an important question, you need to appreciate...