This week Chanticleer columnists James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald discuss the first solid signs Australia’s economy is rolling over, they pick over the billionaire family battle for the Pilbara’s riches and consider how this year’s oil shock is different to the ones before it.

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This week on the Chanticleer podcast, Anthony Macdonald and The Australian Financial Review's editor-in-chief, James Chessell, discuss the Iran ceasefire, reveal the AFR’s wish list for this year’s budget – now only one month away – and take a question on AI job cuts.

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This week Chanticleer columnists James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald zoom out to pull together the threads behind an incredible first quarter of the year, they predict the big headlines you’ll be reading in the coming months, and explain why Australia’s healthcare sector looks sick.

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This week Chanticleer columnists James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald delve into the energy crisis price shocks rippling around the word, they spot a few more cockroaches in private credit’s kitchen and they take a question on oil companies and their super profits.

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This week Chanticleer columnists James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald look at how the Iran oil shock will actually hit the economy, they examine the RBAs big call on interest rates this week and reveal why the generation scrambling from the rate hike isn't necessarily the one you think.

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This week James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald look at the oil shock that’s spreading through the real economy and financial markets, they examine the AI job losses at the original Aussie tech icon and take you inside the sharemarket float of an Aussie company that’s helped change the retail game.

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Further reading:
4 factors that make you most susceptible to the white-collar ‘wipeout’
An education used to be seen as insulation from workforce disruption, now it might be the thing that proves your undoing.

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This week James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald recap the biggest week of the year to date. They discuss the war in the Middle East, the war on jobs thanks to AI and the new opposition leader Angus Taylor's war on debt and deficit.

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Live from the Financial Review's 2026 Business Summit, James & Anthony wax lyrical with the AFR Business Person of the Year 2025, Mike Dorrell.

Recorded over breakfast, Wednesday, March 4th.

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