New Catallaxy

Inflation is a terrible thing. It impacts people and businesses differently in ways difficult to control and manage. It robs people of their savings, particularly those on the wrong side of 60 years who are holding their savings in banks or in other fixed-income forms. It increases the cost of living for those who can…

This will be a controversial choice, given that many Cats are not into “rap”. For me, Hip Hop is something entirely different and very wonderful at that. It emerged in the early 1970s in the Bronx, courtesy of various black peoples. It was truly revolutionary in its use of musical techniques defined by four key…

The Archibald Prize for Portraiture 2024 can be best explained by assuming that the whole show has been captured by a cabal of Art’s enemies. The Archibald Trust, the trustees, the Art Gallery of New South Wales all display contempt for their own traditions, indeed their very constitutions, and seem to be frantic to embrace…

How many firms have been driven under by the rising price of power? Help wanted! The crisis in the power supply has been deferred for several years after Hazelwood closed in 2017 and the head of AEMO at the time, pre Audrey Zibelman, warned that we were travelling with a very thin reserve to handle…