Alan Kohler: The recovery is a work in progress
The idea that the government and Reserve Bank have stimulated too much is ridiculous, based on a superficial analysis of Wednesday’s national...
Alan Kohler: Financial markets are jumping at inflation ghosts – or are they?
Its name is bond, US bond, and it’s shaken, not stirred. Last week, financial markets had a mild spasm because the US...
Alan Kohler: Australia’s solar tsunami to trigger coal collapse
The coal-fired power generation industry is on the brink of collapse. Although coal generation must end eventually if we’re to have zero...
Alan Kohler: Facebook’s big, fat messy faceplant fills it with regrets
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and their staff, apparently spent the weekend negotiating, but Facebook users don’t know about...
Alan Kohler: What’s to be done about post-JobKeeper Cairns?
Cairns is about to become a ghost town, at best a retirement village, and its fate is a test case for whether...
Alan Kohler: What the hell is going on with vaccines and quarantine?
Sitting here stewing in another Victorian Stage 4 lockdown, I have some questions. Why aren’t we being vaccinated yet? On August 19...
Alan Kohler: Investors will pull Australia into the future even if EVs don’t tow Scott Morrison’s boat
Prime Minister Scott Morrison would have headed out to the Hawkesbury River on Sunday morning April 7, 2019, with a spring in...
Alan Kohler: It’s our turn to borrow now as recovery plan shifts
The national debt baton is being handed from the government to households. To be more specific: The economic recovery plan has shifted...
Alan Kohler: Google’s not bluffing. Will Bing come to the government’s rescue?
Google’s Australian CEO Mel Silva wasn’t bluffing last week when she said it would “stop making Google search available in Australia” if...
Alan Kohler: Pray for America as radical Christian right vies for power
At the eight-minute mark of this remarkable video shot inside US Congress as it was stormed by rioters on January 6, something strange and...