Jason Murphy
Crikey.com.au
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Past articles by Jason:
Employment levels for teenagers are skyrocketing. Why?
Employing minors became rapidly old-fashioned in the era of rising underemployment. But a rampant labour market is changing things. → Read More
Why the RBA should truly apologise to fixed-rate home borrowers
The RBA's 'apology' has left a lot to be desired — particularly for borrowers now feeling the rate-rise crunch. → Read More
Puppies, caravan parks and duty-free Ukrainian vodka: The weirdest budget spending measures
The business of government is not all sweeping visions, grand statements, Churchill and Chifley. Sometimes it’s about beagles. → Read More
Why the government is buying a lot of puppies (and other weird spending measures)
The good, the bad and the just plain bizarre. → Read More
Pepsi turns inflation pain into company gain as higher prices cause its profits to froth over
Who suffers in a time of inflation? A look at Pepsi's latest financial results gives us an insight into what's happening. → Read More
Who is actually working from home, and where do they live?
COVID-19 lockdowns brought about a huge change in how we work, with more of us working from home. Or that's what we thought. → Read More
Australian dream of home ownership isn't dead — but a number crunch reveals new divisions, fault lines
City by city, suburb by suburb, the rate of home ownership around the country is heading in very different directions. → Read More
The big squeeze: how rising mortgage payments are hurting different parts of Australia
As long as the RBA continues to hike interest rates, mortgage payments will rise. We take a look at which areas of the country are most affected. → Read More
Scott Morrison says pandemic 30 times worse than global financial crisis
The PM will spend the next few weeks promoting the government's success against COVID. But is he telling porkies? We fact-checked his central proposition. → Read More
Spending big and taxing low: something's got to give
The economic outlook of the budget makes it clear the government isn't looking far beyond the election. → Read More
Federal budget: the three terrifying poisons in Frydenberg's price forecasts
Gazing into the treasurer's crystal ball reveals some scary prospects. → Read More
Crazy sign house prices could skyrocket
What happened in the pandemic was totally unexpected. Cast your mind back to March 2020 and the forecasts were full of doom and gloom for house prices. → Read More
Nasty shock coming for mortgage payers
Interest rates are rising, with serious implications for Australia’s household finances. Some households will find rate hikes hit them like a ton of bricks. → Read More
Woolies receipt reveals looming issue
Everyone is talking about grocery prices. They’re up. The totals we’re seeing at the checkout are higher than ever before. But by how much? → Read More
Truth about who’s really buying Aussie houses
Oh my god. The amount of money Aussies are borrowing to buy houses is going up again. → Read More
No plane sailing for Aussies despite a slight lift-off in overseas trips
You can make as many plans as you like, but COVID is like the annoying passenger beside you: it just doesn't know when to stop being a pain. → Read More
Want a sporting chance at making the big bucks? Maybe avoid tennis
Professional sport may seem like a goldmine but some yield more than others. And tennis isn't the windfall you might believe it to be. → Read More
‘New normal’: Dire prediction for Australia
Have you seen the movie ‘Godzilla vs Kong’? It’s a terrible movie, but a good metaphor for what the Australian economy is likely to experience in 2022. Two enormous, powerful forces are going to clash. In the movie there is a lot of collateral damage. In the Australian economy in 2022, that damage is likely to take the form of inflation. → Read More
Chart that will terrify mortgage payers
The huge showdown for 2022 will be on interest rates. The market is pricing in three rate hikes, the RBA says there will be none. Who is right? → Read More
Chart shows one state has lost the plot
Australia’s house price rises are famous. The rapid escalation in the cost of owning your own home is familiar to all of us. But the pace of change is different in different parts of the country, and that is bending the whole nation out of shape. → Read More