Personal finance

Why the Fed cutting interest rates may weaken the U.S. dollar

Why the Fed cutting interest rates may weaken the U.S. dollar

Bob Elliott

SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images The U.S. Federal Reserve may start cutting interest rates before year’s end. That could make ...

What Aussies receiving Centrelink payments need to know this tax time

What Aussies receiving Centrelink payments need to know this tax time

Mickey Vernon

Facing mounting cost-of-living pressures, taxpayers can now lodge their returns for the 2023-2024 financial year and hopefully receive some much-needed ...

Australia needs new home every few minutes to meet population demand

Australia needs new home every few minutes to meet population demand

Mickey Vernon

Official statistics suggest a new home must be built in Australia every few minutes to keep up with migration as ...

Rent a car for a road trip, or drive your own? 5 things to consider

Rent a car for a road trip, or drive your own? 5 things to consider

Ev Richard

Patchareeporn Sakoolchai | Moment | Getty Images Summer is the season of road trips. A record 70.9 million Americans are ...

Avoid those vacation photo-ops to actually enjoy the moment

Avoid those vacation photo-ops to actually enjoy the moment

Bob Elliott

Two winters ago, we vacationed to a hot-spot resort in the Caribbean with our family. Around the perimeter of its ...

Manhattan is ‘buyer’s market’ as real estate prices fall, inventory rises

Manhattan is ‘buyer’s market’ as real estate prices fall, inventory rises

Bob Elliott

A sign advertising a home for sale is displayed outside of a Manhattan building in New York City on April ...

What Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour says about ‘passion tourism’

What Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour says about ‘passion tourism’

Bob Elliott

Taylor Swift performs on stage during The Eras Tour on June 28, 2024 in Dublin, Ireland.  Charles Mcquillan/tas24 | Getty ...

Stage three tax cuts set to help households ‘catch up’ to rate rises

Stage three tax cuts set to help households ‘catch up’ to rate rises

Mickey Vernon

Australian taxpayers are set to see more dollars appearing in their bank accounts each pay cycle as long-awaited tax cuts ...

10 most livable cities in the world; Vienna, Copenhagen top list: EIU

10 most livable cities in the world; Vienna, Copenhagen top list: EIU

Bob Elliott

Vienna, Austria is the wrold’s most “liveable” city, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2024 Global Liveability Index. Alexander Spatari ...

How much extra cash you can expect when tax cuts begin on July 1

How much extra cash you can expect when tax cuts begin on July 1

Mickey Vernon

Changes set to come into effect from Monday will mean more money in the pockets of most Australian taxpayers. Stage ...