The Govt says its Budget will be all about infrastructure. But infrastructure for which economy? The changes in behaviour caused by Covid 19 will cause generational shifts for work, business, transport, and the economy. Leading demographic thinker, Bernard Salt joins Ross for a trip to the future.

Unemployment falling, tick. Interest rates zero for a long time, tick. Government paying the bills, tick. But it's what comes in the next year or two that will determine the length and pain of the real recession, that's still to come.

They've been hyped as the Aussie revolution for the global payments system. But look under the hood at the real numbers - and the global challenges - and you might start to wonder why the share prices have rocketed as they have. With ex Diners Club boss Grant Halverson - who crunches the numbers.

Though you might be tempted to think that recent events are leading to the potential demise of the once great AMP Society ... in truth the decline is decades in the making. Here, leading actuary Michael Rice and I chronicle the litany of failures at the AMP over the years ... that leads to today's questions over its very future.

There are potentially 250,000 companies that should have collapsed, if they were not propped up by the Govt's $300 billion+ economic stimulus. The problem is, as soon as Govt support, or policy changes ... they will collapse, potentially triggering a second wave of recession. So why put off the economic inevitable?

Many retailers were already struggling before Covid 19. Now more are surviving only because of Govt support. But that's expiring ... and landlords want to start collecting full rent again. So what are the new rules of retailing and how does it affect the shopping centres; retailers large & small ... plus shoppers of course. With Colliers' Michael Bate.

It's a riddle to work out. Car sales have collapsed ... but if you try to buy a second hand car ... you'll discover prices have sky-rocketed. There is an explanation ... and Josh Dowling joins me to help explain it.

Australia is officially in its first recession in almost 29 years. No surprise there, but the fact that household savings & prosperity have gone through the roof is. So what's in store for the future. Today, noted economist Warren Hogan ... plus some tunes from the 90s and today.

The rules of the investment game are changing ... for business too. It means there are new strategies needed, and an understanding of the forces driving our currency and property prices in a world already looking beyond Covid 19

Share prices continue to rise - for some to record highs - as the carnage of corporate balance sheets was put out to show. To help dissect the themes, and some of the star companies, Chris Stott of 1851 Capital.