The Budget Breakdown
5/13/202645 min
On The Money Café this week, Alan Kohler and James Thomson dig into the federal budget, take stock of CSL, and tackle listener questions on tax, AI, and interest rates.
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Alan Kohler· Host0:23
[upbeat music] Hello, I'm Alan Kohler, editor-at-large of Intelligent Investor and finance presenter and columnist for the ABC.
James Thomson· Host0:40
And I'm James Thompson, senior Chanticleer columnist at The Australian Financial Review.
Alan Kohler· Host0:44
And we are The Money Cafe. And James, you still in Canberra after the lockup?
James Thomson· Host0:49
I am in Canberra, yes. A long day on Tuesday, but, um, we survived.
Alan Kohler· Host0:53
Yes And, uh, plenty of [laughs] reaction, uh, positive and negative, some of the... Some of the stuff's been wild. Yes. [laughs] Oh, yeah. Oh, look, I, I didn't go to the lockup because I had to do stuff on the ABC News, which, uh, obviously gets broadcast at 7:00 PM before the budget comes out. So I had to do my analysis of the budget before I read it, which, you know, I think that's, that's a good way to go.
James Thomson· Host1:19
[laughs] Well, there were so many leaks, I guess it was possible.
Alan Kohler· Host1:22
Well, in fact, I, I searched the budget in vain for stuff that hadn't been leaked and, uh, I couldn't really find much,