Stephen Bartholomeusz

2 days ago | smh.com.au | Stephen Bartholomeusz

Senior business columnist June 5, 2025 — 11.59am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When looking at the latest US Congressional Budget Office analysis of the Trump administration’s proposed budget and tariff policies, the saying “lies, damned lies, and statistics” comes readily to mind because, at the heart of both sets of policies, is financial legerdemain.

3 days ago | smh.com.au | Stephen Bartholomeusz

Senior business columnist June 4, 2025 — 11.59am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Perhaps the most striking conclusion of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s revisions to its global growth forecasts is that the United States, largely responsible for the downgrades, will be hit harder than most of the rest of the world.

4 days ago | watoday.com.au | Stephen Bartholomeusz

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4 days ago | smh.com.au | Stephen Bartholomeusz

Senior business columnist June 3, 2025 — 11.59am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When J.P. Morgan’s Jamie Dimon said on Friday that a crack in the US bond market was “going to happen,” what was he warning about? Essentially, he was saying that there might be a future auction of US bonds – US government debt – where demand fell short of supply.

5 days ago | smh.com.au | Stephen Bartholomeusz

Senior business columnist June 2, 2025 — 11.57am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Why did Donald Trump double the tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium to the US on Friday? Well, partly because he could. But also because of the political signals that move would send.