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Farmers have said they cannot bear higher input costs alone.

Bread, milk and fresh veggies: Grocery inflation is creeping back

Australians have been warned there will be less fresh produce and higher prices as farmers slash their winter season planting.

  • Jessica Yun

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The unemployment rate was steady in March, at 4.3 per cent.

Rampant inflation, rates rising, recession: The cost of war continuing for months

As economist Saul Eslake warns a rate rise could push Australia into recession, new figures show the job market is holding steady.

  • Shane Wright
Jim Chalmers and RBA deputy governor Andrew Hauser will be at this week’s important IMF meetings.

Chalmers heads to Washington as the world suffers a bad case of deja vu

Australia reshaped its budget after global leaders spoke at an IMF meeting almost 20 years ago. Jim Chalmers heads to the same meeting with similar concerns.

  • Shane Wright
The war against Iran, and its impact on oil prices, has led to many governments offering cost-of-living relief to voters. The IMF says they could just add to inflation pressures.

Don’t fuel war inflation: IMF warns Chalmers as recession risks grow

Australia’s treasurer is heading to the US for talks about the global economy. It’s not going to be pleasant as recession and inflation warnings ring loudly.

  • Shane Wright
Donald Trump on the weekend in Miami. The US president has warned that any Iranians who try to stop his blockade will be “blown to hell”.

The US is dragging the world into turbulent economic waters

The big jump in the US inflation rate revealed on Friday is only a preview of things to come, as the conflict in the Persian Gulf enters its next phase.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Donald Trump’s decision to attack Iran will have lasting consequences for energy markets, fuelling inflation.

A ceasefire is good. But Trump’s impact on rates is just starting

The economic fallout of the US-Iran war will be a major disruption to energy markets and drive higher inflation, which means we will all feel a hit.

  • Clancy Yeates
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Building a new home could get 10 per cent more expensive because of the war against Iran.

Bank warns of $50,000 hit coming for new homes. Builders say it’s nothing like that much

Motorists are bearing the brunt of the war in Iran. But those wanting a new home may face their own “war tax” as building costs rise – by how much depends on who you ask.

  • Shane Wright
STEVEN SIEWERT

My Easter Showstopper: $23 for a thimbleful of gluey gnocchi

There is inflation; then there’s Clagflation. The ghosts of my Italian grandmothers are horrified.

  • Michelle Cazzulino
The Albanese government’s temporary halving of the fuel excise for three months will cost an estimated $US2.55 billion.

The world’s finances weren’t ready for an energy shock of this magnitude

Governments’ finances were already stretched before the war in Iran sent energy costs soaring.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Pay increases to trucking firms could reverberate through an economy already dealing with stubborn inflation.

Government issues ‘emergency’ order for truckers over fuel crisis

A draft determination issued by the workplace relations minister late on Tuesday paves the way for trucking costs to be increased throughout the economy.

  • Elias Visontay