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Michael Pascoe

Michael Pascoe is one of Australia's most respected and experienced finance and economics commentators with 37 years in newspaper, radio, television and on-line journalism. He is Contributing Editor for the Sydney Morning Herald and Age on-line business pages and regularly appears on Channel 7's Sunrise and news programs and is a regular conference speaker, MC and facilitator.

Michael was born and educated in Queensland and started his career with The Courier-Mail before working in Hong Kong for three years. He joined the Australian Financial Review in Sydney upon returning to Australia and then virtually invented specialist finance journalism in commercial broadcasting - first with the Macquarie Radio network, then with Channel 9, Sky Business Report and Channel 7.

Budget 2012: Wedged into a wedgie

This week’s federal budget shows the influence politics has on the running of our nation’s economy.
May 11, 12:13 pm
We're still prey to the $9.99 cent special - or the 6.99% loan rate

Let's take a moment before we join the mob of bank bashers to take a quick look at what's really going on in the mortgage and deposit markets.
May 4, 9:22 am
Interest rate forecast right for the wrong reason

With interest rates looking likely to fall next week, I'd like to know if it really is the European situation that is dampening the Australian economy?
April 27, 12:17 pm
Bad news sells, good news buried

Scary headlines capture attention and entice people to read stories, buy newspapers and watch television programs - I know because of written thousands of ‘em.
April 18, 10:58 am
Business conditions defy the headlines

Business conditions in Australia are far more positive that parts of the media and business community would have us believe.
April 12, 10:11 am
Manufacturers after a gas handout

The idea of getting some sort of a handout from someone never seems to be very far from a businessman’s mind, as demonstrated at a manufacturing conference in Sydney this week.
April 2, 11:10 am
RBA tackles the rip-off merchants

There’s something wrong with our consumer protection laws when it takes the Reserve Bank of Australia to end one of the more blatant abuses of market power: excessive fees charged for using a credit card.
March 23, 12:22 pm
Looking after the mates first, the nation second

Our current crop of politicians look to be favouring their backers at the expense of championing the nation’s greater good.
March 16, 10:33 am
The scandal of state and local government housing anti-policy

Terrible government policies at all levels are driving up home prices and crippling Australia’s housing industry.
March 9, 9:36 am
Oddity of the rising retailers

Strange thing about the present corporate profits season: the market has treated a pile of retailers very kindly.
March 1, 10:08 am
Save Europe to lower the Aussie

It's not just the miners that are making our dollar stronger, the struggling European and US economies are also to blame.
February 22, 11:37 am
Duplicity on jobs and loans – politics as usual

Australia deserves political leadership that can see past union demands, big bank publicity spin and the pleas of lobby groups.
February 10, 12:48 pm
The real housing affordability policy causing angst

There’s no painless way of popping a bubble, but sometimes it just has to be done.
January 9, 2:52 pm
Interest rates cuts more than reported

Even though the media would have you believe otherwise, our banks deserve credit for sustainably dropping their discounted home loan rates.
December 13, 2:38 pm
Retail steady as she goes, not sinking

Whiny, tired and old-fashioned retailers are exaggerating what's really going on within the industry.
December 1, 3:29 pm

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