International Reads:
- The new middle-class retirement plan: Working into old age – CBS News
- CEO got big bucks as his hospital chain imploded. Here’s who suffered. – USA Today
- U.S. homes aren’t just more expensive. They’re also getting smaller – Fortune
- Price Gouging is Definitely Real, and We Should Definitely Do Something About It – Current Affairs
- US Economy Expands at Revised 3% Rate on Resilient Consumer – Bloomberg
- What Biden’s tariffs on Chinese EVs and other products mean for U.S. consumers, jobs – NPR
- Dollar General shares crater 25% as retailer cuts outlook, blaming ‘financially constrained’ customers – CNBC
- Bosses Are Finding Ways to Pay Workers Less – WSJ
- Why Economists Worry About Trumpflation – NY Times
- Average Chinese national now eats more protein than an American, UN says – SCMP
- Gen Z’s top financial priority is building good credit: study – Fortune
- Nvidia reports 122% revenue growth on surging demand for data center chips – CNBC
- Why the value meal is making a comeback – CNBC
Local Reads:
- Commonwealth Bank CEO labels Greens’ tax policy ‘insidious populism’ after firm’s $9.8bn profit – The Guardian
- Crisis, what (housing) crisis? Dutton to scrap 30,000 homes. – Michael West
- A Sydney property developer who helped “wash” money for a blackmailer convicted for threatening to expose tax fraud will have to cough up more than $11m. – The Guardian
- Unemployment is rising and Australia’s economy is weak – but don’t hit the recession alarm just yet – The Guardian
- Heatwave brings Australia’s winter weather to an abrupt end as climate change up-ends the seasons – ABC
- Car park wins out over affordable housing despite shortfall of 6,000 homes across inner Melbourne – The Guardian
- Qantas financial year profit falls to $1.25 billion, partly driven by fares moderating – ABC
- Woolworths profit falls as it grapples with unhappy customers – The SMH
- Adam Bandt pledges to boost corporate taxes to fund dental into Medicare – The Age
- Greens’ wild bid to tax banks, supermarkets more – News.com.au
- Summer blackout threat eases but AEMO warns risks remain as coal, gas plants retire – ABC
- New Zealand’s odd taxation of retirement savings is bad for the country – Interest.co.nz
- ANZ Business Outlook survey shows soaring business confidence – Interest.co.nz
- LNG imports and local gas could cover dry year risk while a renewable energy storage system is built – Interest.co.nz
MB Media Appearances and Videos:
Labor fails on international education reforms:
Australia’s $48 billion international student lie
Australian housing’s crisis of lies
Australia’s housing system is designed to fail
Australian housing: from boom to bust?
Good news on inflation. But no rate cuts.
Politicians make inflation problems worse
