Ross Gittins is a legend of Australian journalism. But his column on Monday was a shocker. I guess even legends can be wrong.

Economists desperately want to convince themselves the world is as simple as C + I + G + (X - M). That’s what generations of ...

Ross Gittins claims, “The nation is finally coming to grips with home affordability”. “I’ve been watching and writing about the steady worsening in housing affordability for the best part of 50 years, ...

Ross Gittins gives his normal, intelligent, perceptive and analytic take on the election (Comment, 29/1) and explains the true reasons for our fears about cost of living, but outs climate change as ...

A protest vote on the cost of living will achieve little. The best election outcome would be a minority government dependent on the support of those who get the urgency of climate action.

No profession spends more time contemplating the future than economists. Are they any good at it? Well, no, not really.