VIDEO: Decades of deficit ahead for the Federal Budget, Stephen Anthony on ABC The Business, 28 March 2022
Macroeconomics Advisory Chief Economist Stephen Anthony says a big spending budget just as interest rates start rising again will leave less scope to balance the books and deal with major …
Budget must check Australia out of never-ending debt and deficit, Stephen Anthony in the Australian Financial Review, 27 March 2022
In a Budget 2022 opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Macroeconomics Advisory’s Chief Economist Stephen Anthony alerts that Treasurer Josh Frydenberg must take maximum advantage of the strong recovery …
Debt reality bites: Budget interest will keep on climbing. Stephen Anthony in The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 March 2022
Macroeconomics Advisory’s Chief Economist Stephen Anthony – regularly one of the most accurate forecasters of The Age/Sydney Morning Herald’s Scope panel of financial experts – directly challenges the assumptions underpinning …
Trillion dollar debt bomb to double to fund major spending as borrowing costs rise, Stephen Anthony on ABC News, 24 March 2022
With government debt hitting a trillion dollars in coming years, what’s being done to pay it down before global interest rate rises push up borrowing costs? Macroeconomics Advisory’s Chief Economist …
Tax cuts mean bracket creep is ‘much less creepy’: Deloitte, Stephen Anthony in the Australian Financial Review, 24 March 2022
A budget analysis by Macroeconomics Advisory chief economist Stephen Anthony calls into question the sustainability of Australia’s total federal and state public sector debt.
Budget to upgrade wages forecast after worst year since 2000, Stephen Anthony in The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 March 2022
Macroeconomics Advisory’s Chief Economist Stephen Anthony alerts that there was now an entrenched structural deficit with spending stuck much higher than forecast revenue. A growing threat is posed by the …
These reforms could help retire budget debt, Stephen Anthony in The Australian, 23 March 2022
In this commentary in The Australian, Macroeconomics Advisory Chief Economist Stephen Anthony refers to the Macroeconomics Advisory 2022-23 Commonwealth Budget Preview to alert that with interest rates on the way …
Higher interest rates, slow growth ‘a risky mix’, Stephen Anthony in The Australian, 23 March 2022
Referencing the Macroeconomics Advisory 2022-23 Commonwealth Budget Preview, Macroeconomics Advisory Chief Economist Stephen Anthony observes in an article in The Australian that we should take remedial action now to guard against …
Macroeconomics Advisory 2022-23 Commonwealth Budget Preview: is big debt good for Goldilocks or a Roach Motel?
In this Budget 2022 Preview note we find that the key to assessing the long-term sustainability of the Federal Budget is to compare the projected path of interest rates and …