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What I learned about housing and transport from walking Tokyo’s Yamanote rail loop.

Trading topical takes for timeless issues.

Andrew Hastie is drifting into MAGA-style economic nationalism, chasing car factories and coal dreams instead of offering a serious alternative to Labor.

Bailing out Glencore’s Mount Isa smelter taxes the future to subsidise yesterday’s inefficiency.

Justin Wolfers’ doomsday scenarios about tech monopolies owning ‘all of GDP’ ignore how markets adapt.