Photo source: The Block You didn’t suddenly become bad with money. Your rent, groceries, petrol, insurance, electricity bill, coffee and Uber just all repriced at the same time. This is the strange macroeconomic contradiction of 2026: Australia is not technically in a recession, yet the legacy of Australia’s recent per-capita GDP recession means many households still feel like the economy is going backwards on an individual level. Household spending has boomed and the labour

Opinion Photo source: ccn.com Prediction markets are trading platforms where participants trade in contracts whose payoff depends on unknown future events, (Wolfers & Zitzewitz, 2004) with categories including sports, politics, elections, and more. The traded contracts are priced to reflect the conviction of participants regarding the likelihood of a certain event occurring. Buying contracts pertaining to a certain outcome drives its price higher to reflect the consensus beli

You've probably heard some version of this: "If you skip your $6 coffee every day and invest it instead, you'll be a millionaire by retirement." It's been said by financial advisors, self-help authors and that one person in every friend group who started a budget spreadsheet in January and won't stop talking about it. The concept even has a name: the Latte Factor, coined by author David Bach in the early 2000s. The idea is simple: small, mindless daily spending is silently de

A trend report on the intergenerational wealth transfer and the women who will be its beneficiaries. "The greatest destroyer of wealth isn’t tax or markets but capability asymmetry - when assets are passed on before financial understanding is there." - Susie Grehl. Commonwealth Bank Executive General Manager, Wealth and Private Understanding the intergenerational wealth transfer The number of High Net Worth Australian women has been growing for decades. In the past year alone

In today's world of ever-changing microtrends, “convenience culture” and instant gratification, consumer behaviour has become increasingly emotion-driven and shaped by the rapid cycles of social media trends. Once a product goes viral, it's instantly available at the tip of our fingers - we buy it, the hype goes up and then falls just as quickly. This creates a self-perpetuating cycle, fuelled by our fear of missing out (FOMO) and desire to stay socially visible. Think Labub

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