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Category Archives: Macroeconomy
The Other Side interview on federal debt and lockdowns
Earlier this week I spoke with Damian Coory on his The Other Side program about the massively expanding federal debt and the economic cost of lockdowns, among other issues. The YouTube video of our conversation is embedded below. Given the … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged australia, coronavirus, covid-19, economy, lockdowns, sydney, vaccines
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Does government understand business and realise the huge costs of lockdowns?
The reports from the Sydney lockdown are grim. The lockdown is imposing a huge cost on affected businesses. The financial assistance offered today by the federal and NSW governments may be insufficient for many businesses (e.g. see Sydney CBD restaurants … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged business, capitalism, covid, government, nsw, qld, queensland, schumpeter, sydneylockdown, vaccine
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RBA would be right to taper its Quantitative Easing program
There’s a nice article by William McInnes in today’s Financial Review, Economists expect RBA to ease stimulus, which begins: Economists expect Tuesday’s Reserve Bank board meeting to acknowledge the economy’s surprisingly strong recovery and to signal some tapering of its … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged abs, bonds, corelogic, debt, houseprices, inflation, monetarypolicy, propertyprices, qe, quantitativeeasing, rba
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Qld’s heavy CAPEX pipeline dominated by public sector projects
First, thankfully the Queensland Government will lift the Brisbane-Moreton lockdown at 6pm tonight, although the threat of future lockdowns remains, making it challenging to plan anything over the next couple of months. I’m really hoping the COVID spread is contained … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Macroeconomy
Tagged abs, australia, brisbane, covid, infrastructure, lockdown, qld, wa
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End of 2nd day locked down in Qld Police State
If government imposes hard-to-justify and unreasonable restrictions on people, then it shouldn’t surprise us if they don’t fully comply. Based on the amount of people wandering around Brisbane City relative to previous lockdowns, and on various media reports, Queenslanders have … Continue reading
Lockdown CBA podcast discussion with Prof. Douglas Allen of Simon Fraser University
If you’ve seen any of Alan Jones’s recent commentary on Sky Australia you may have heard him talk about a recent cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of Canada’s COVID lockdown. Episode 90 of my Economics Explored podcast features a discussion regarding COVID lockdown costs versus … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged australia, canada, cba, coronavirus, costbenefitanalysis, covid-19, economics, gdp, lockdowns, vaccines
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Growing concerns that stimulus and money printing are fuelling inflation
Setting off an inflationary spiral is one of the big risks with the mega-stimulus measures and Quantitative Easing or money printing we’ve seen in the responses of governments and central banks to the pandemic. This month, we’ve seen some higher-than-expected … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged australia, bitcoin, centralbanks, cpi, fed, gold, inflation, mmt, moneysupply
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Decarbonising the Economy – my latest podcast episode
The latest episode of my Economics Explored podcast is on the topic of decarbonising the economy. My monologue is based on a talk I gave last Tuesday to the First Tuesday Club forum hosted by the Brisbane Dialogues group at … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged australia, brisbanedialogues, climatechange, coal, decarbonisation, electricity, energy, qld, queensland
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The indicators look great, but the recovery is very uneven across the economy
In the vicinity of my office at the Johnson Hotel on Boundary St, Spring Hill, I see the ongoing impacts of the pandemic on the economy. The hotel restaurant-cafe Tumbling Stone hasn’t reopened since it shut in March last year, … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Macroeconomy
Tagged abs, australia, buildingindustry, consumerconfidence, consumersentiment, hospitality, jobs, johnson, qld, queensland, springhill, tourism, unemploymentrate
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More action, less talk needed on vaccines
Business people know meetings can crowd out action and, hence, meetings should be minimised to only those absolutely necessary and they should be action-focussed (e.g. short and sharp Scrum meetings of the team members directly involved in a project, meaning … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged australianeconomy, businessconditions, coronavirus, covid-19, nab, nationalcabinet, vaccines
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