The Guardian • Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Issue #2129
Profits cause inflation
There is no shortage of news headlining big business and government warnings that a “wages breakout” will cause inflation: “Teachers’ rise a risk to inflation,”...
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Issue #2159
Time for a 4-day working week
The reason given by the Reserve Bank of Australia for increasing interest rates was to bring inflation back into the RBA’s target range. Where did...
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Issue #2123
Inflation: the workers’ burden
The RBA (Reserve Bank of Australia), the last relic of economic planning in Australia, ostensibly Australia’s central national bank, has a very limited range of...
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Issue #2100
More for war in a class budget
“In a cost-of-living crisis, the Labor government is choosing to remove $14.4 billion in funding from the NDIS that will lead to disabled people not...
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