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Discretionary trusts crackdown short-sighted

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
... couples' combined income (and in some cases whole families) are taxed as one single unit - a practice common in several major OECD countries including the US, he noted. "This is a good approach where you end up with a system that encourages people to ...

Good jobs, sluggish pay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
... correlation between the unemployment rate and the NAIRU (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) - as estimated by the OECD - indicates that wages should have been growing after the unemployment gap vanished (unemployment rate less NAIRU) in ...

The problem with currency extrapolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
... 8.5% gain. These suggest that the government's 2017 growth target of 6.5% is safely within reach and perhaps outdone, if the OECD and the IMF's revised 2017 forecasts of 6.6% and 6.7%, respectively, comes to fruition. This is good news for Australia. ...

Is the Fed the victim of its own success?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
... drugs..." Inflation isn't lifting despite the US unemployment rate (4.4% in June) falling below estimates of NAIRU (4.9% OECD; 4.5% Oxford Economics) over the past months. It could be because of wages' lagged response. It could also be because the NAIRU ...

Economics 101 is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... 62.7% to 62.8% in June - it's still below the NAIRU (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) as measured by the OECD (4.9%) and Oxford Economics (4.5%). The increase in the average workweek to 34.5 hours in June from 34.4 hours in the previous ...

Good goings-on in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
... loss registered in 2016. Reflecting this improved conditions both the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have lifted their China economic growth projections in their June 2017 reports. ...

The Fed's inflation and asset price conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
... broken below the NAIRU (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) as measured by both Oxford Economics (4.5%) the OECD (4.9%). But instead of lifting, US core CPI inflation eased to 1.7% in May from 2.3% in January (unemployment rate at 4.8%) ...

Limited super investment in VC holding Australia back: AVCAL

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
... Additionally, despite FY2016 being a record year for VC investment, Australia's VC sector remains less than half that of the OECD + average (OECD nations plus a handful of others countries including China, Taiwan and Singapore), at just 0.023% of Australia's ...

Better, but not good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
"Better, but not good enough": this is how the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) sees developments in the global economy. The OECD also answered its own question - "Will risks derail the modest recovery?" - initially posted ...

Australia ranks fifth for financial literacy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... deputy chair Peter Kell said he welcomed these results, noting 15% of Australian students were high performers compared to the OECD average of 12%. But he acknowledged that 20% of Australian students were low performers compared to the 22% OECD average. ...