The Gloom Index
Business confidence is sinking, housing projects are getting harder to make stack up, unemployment is rising and the AI boom has a few awkward questions to answer. It's not a week for the naturally optimistic.
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Brokers, Banks & Bots
Rates rise, property slips, lenders tout 40-year mortgages and a new plan for face-to-face banking in regional Australia that looks suspiciously like window dressing.
Follow The Money. Good Luck.
This week, money, mortgages and magic. A system that often seems to operate for someone else and the RBA accused of incompetence.
Rates, Risk & A Little Bitcoin
You can almost hear the spreadsheets groaning as banks re-price mortgages and chase deposits. Brokers are finding it harder to refinance clients and Bitcoin enters the room.
Fakes, Fears & Feelings
Some dark days on Money Road this week: Our biggest banks suffer a seismic scam, Chicken Little is in the house, and a gratuitous slur on the good folk of Cunnamulla.
Where’s the Sense?
Every now and then the news arrives in a tangled mass of contradictions that defies analysis and creates a simpler response: WTF? This was one of those weeks. Welcome to Money Road.