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I joined Paul Turton on ABC Newcastle Mornings yesterday to discuss how everyday items can shed light on global economics. I explained “doughnut economics,” which looks at balancing human needs with environmental limits, and compared it with purchasing power tools like the Big Mac and Mars Bar Indexes. These offer a quick look at currency values and living costs but are they too simple to capture the full picture?

Listen in from 37:07 on ABC Newcastle Mornings. Continue…

by Roger Montgomery Posted in Radio.

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I’ve long believed it’s the best system we have – socialism fails when it exhausts other people’s money.

But capitalism is far from perfect. We yearn for better infrastructure, healthcare, childcare, education, and aged care; yet the default approach to funding these essential services is for the government to take on debt and raise taxes, or to hope immigration drives economic prosperity.

This article was first published in The Australian on 29 August 2025. Continue…

by Roger Montgomery Posted in In the Press.

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