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Trump’s 2017 tax cuts helped set stage for today’s inflation. Doubling down will make things worse.

The claim of irresponsible Republicans that they would do a better job than Democrats of containing inflation is just not believable.

Chicago Sun-Times

Labor's first budget back in government will make income inequality worse, and the stage 3 tax cuts are mainly to blame

Well-off households will get a $5,740 income boost from the Albanese government's biggest budget measures. The poorest will get just $17.

ABC News

Michael Hiltzik: Britain's prime minister followed the GOP's economic plan. She lost her job in record time

Fox Business talking head Larry Kudlow was over the moon on Sept. 23.

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Michael Gove back in cabinet as he's named Levelling Up Secretary - again

The Tory heavyweight broke ranks earlier this month by suggesting he would not vote for Liz Truss's disastrous tax cuts, accusing the departed PM of showing the "wrong values"

Daily Mirror

Labor’s Dropped Its First Federal Budget In A Decade So Here Are 6 Takeaways For Young Aussies

Labor's flagged the budget as "responsible" - but it's still going ahead with those tax cuts.

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You be the treasurer: scrap the stage-three tax cuts, spend money, or pay down the federal budget deficit

Tax cuts for high-income earners, build a bullet train, add dental to Medicare or build more social housing? You decide with our interactive guide

The Guardian - AU

Paul Bongiorno: A budget to reset the big arguments

The Albanese government tells us it has taken to heart the admonition that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

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Forget tax cuts. We need a tax rise – or Britain’s public services will collapse

The idea won’t please those on the right or the left, but Labour must break the taboo and argue for higher tax, says former Labour minister Chris Mullin

The Guardian - UK

Have Liz Truss’s 44 days in office destroyed 40 years of free market philosophy?

Economists soon saw through Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s plans for billions of unfunded tax cuts to benefit the rich

The Guardian - UK

Fall of Liz Truss gives Italy’s far right a lesson in what not to do

Giorgia Meloni’s radical economic agenda had resembled Kwasi Kwarteng’s. It won’t any longer

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss ignored economists’ stark warnings over mini-budget

Pair sympathetic to her growth agenda told Truss before she became PM that plans needed to be handled with care

The Guardian - UK

Malcolm Turnbull, an architect of stage 3 tax cuts, still backs them, despite higher costs

The prime minister who originally introduced the stage three tax cuts to the parliament says you would probably not legislate them today, given their growing cost and the deteriorating budget position.

ABC News

Jim Chalmers is ignoring his own warnings of a possible recession

The Treasurer appears to be ignoring his own warnings ahead of the federal budget about the need to be prepared for a global recession.

The New Daily

Leadership crisis: What next for the UK after Liz Truss?

Despite their record brevity, Liz Truss's 44 days in office will long be remembered. The UK prime minister has now resigned after pressure that became too much. How did the Conservative Party elect a leader who so badly misread the mood and the markets with her failed bid for unfunded…

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The Guardian - UK

From fighter to quitter: timeline of Liz Truss’s U-turn littered premiership

Key moments in the 45 days between Truss becoming prime minister and announcing her departure

Tribune News Service

Truss resigns as UK prime minister after tax-cut plan backfires

Liz Truss resigned as U.K. prime minister after a brief and chaotic tenure that saw her announce a massive package of unfunded tax cuts before unwinding most of it in the face of a market rout.

ABC News

Forecast cost for stage 3 tax cuts rises by $11 billion

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the forecast cost of the stage 3 tax cuts has risen and will now cost the nation around $254 billion over 10 years.

The Conversation

Pensions: how yours may have been affected by recent market turmoil

The early signs are that the financial markets have been appeased by the government’s October 17 decision to reverse two-thirds of its September mini-budget tax cuts.

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The Independent UK

Kwasi Kwarteng failed to brief Bank of England about risks from mini-budget, MPs told

Bank would have warned of any a threat to ‘financial stability’ – but was in the dark about tax cuts to be unleashed

Wales Online

Truss faces tough PMQs after being forced to junk her economic strategy

Prime Minister to face Starmer for the first time since Jeremy Hunt ripped up her plan for tax cuts and increased public borrowing

Daily Mirror

Rising mortgage rates put 45 Tory seats at risk in southern heartlands

Mortgage rates shot up after Liz Truss's disastrous mini-Budget amid fears the Bank of England would hike interest rates to manage the flurry of unfunded tax cuts

France 24

Figurehead prime minister? Liz Truss and the UK's political instability

We knew about the figurehead king. But does Britain now have a figurehead prime minister? Liz Truss's grip on power is slipping by the day. A U-turn on unfunded tax cuts for the rich will most likely not be enough to repair the damage. Is she really reduced to the…

Radio France Internationale

Position of UK's PM, Liz Truss, in doubt after new Treasury chief axes 'Trussonomics'

The UK’s new Treasury chief has ripped up the government’s economic plan, dramatically reversing most of the tax cuts and spending plans that new Prime Minister Liz Truss announced less than a month ago.

Benzinga

US Stock Futures Surge Following Monday's Rally; Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson Earnings In Focus

Pre-open movers U.S. stock futures traded higher in early pre-market trade on Tuesday after closing sharply higher in the previous session. The Dow Jones jumped by more than 550 points in the previous session following Friday's selloff after the UK reversed its proposed tax cuts.

Evening Standard

Liz Truss apologises for ‘mistakes’

Liz Truss has apologised for her “mistakes” as she sat down for an interview at the end of a dramatic day in Westminster.The Prime Minister is battling to save her premiership after her economic agenda was left in tatters by the dismantling of her former chancellor’s landmark mini-budget.Speaking after she…

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