On this week’s episode of The Brief, Tracey Mylecharane takes stock of Australia’s financial sector.

As Saudi Arabia works to diversify its oil-dependent economy, economic diplomacy is needed to woo foreign investors, Gus Olwan writes.

On this week’s Policy Forum Pod, we zero in on zero-carbon energy with a group of researchers who want to build Australia’s renewable energy export industry from the ground up.

The US has a long history of using trade coercion to enforce its intellectual property agenda. Withdrawing from the WTO could give the world a chance to focus on terms of trade that favour people over profit, Peter Drahos writes.

The amount of money it’s costing Qatar and China to put on the World Cup and Winter Olympics might be eye-watering, but the expenditure serves national interests far beyond the field of play, Simon Chadwick writes.

The world has no chance of learning the lessons of the GFC if we allow those who let it happen to construct alternative histories, Quentin Grafton writes.