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- Line of 200 people for Gaythorne open house evidence of relative lack of suitable properties in Brisbane - partly due to restrictive zoning policies
- Upcoming Qld Parliamentary Committee appearance regarding COVID emergency and CHO powers on Friday
- Chat with 4BC's Scott Emerson about Qld economic outlook
- Heat map of Brisbane metro property prices – big opportunities in the Western corridor?
- On extension of CHO emergency powers, Griffith legal academic makes scathing submission to Parliamentary Committee
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- Qld CHO emergency powers extension bill submission
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Category Archives: Macroeconomy
Chat with 4BC’s Scott Emerson about Qld economic outlook
I had a great chat this afternoon with 4BC Drive program presenter Scott Emerson about the Queensland economic outlook. Among other things, we chatted about the Deloitte Access Economics report which was nicely summarised by the Brisbane Times as ‘Queenslanders … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged coronavirus, covid-19, economicoutlook, insolvencies, jbhifi, jobkeeper, jobseeker, qldeconomy, retailtrade
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Qld CHO emergency powers extension bill submission
Yesterday 5pm was the deadline for submissions to the Queensland Parliamentary Inquiry into the bill to extend the COVID-19 public health emergency and the Chief Health Officer’s emergency powers until 30 September. Queensland’s Parliament has only one chamber and the … Continue reading
Posted in Brisbane, Macroeconomy
Tagged brisbane, coronavirus, covid-19, economy, grandchancellor, lockdowns, mentalhealth, publichealth, qldparliament, ukmutantstrain
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Brisbane Lockdown 2.0 – the sequel no one wanted
To keep Queenslanders safe, our state government has decided to lock down the over2 million residents of Greater Brisbane for the next three days, but its sudden, unexpected announcement at 8am sparked immediate panic buying in our supermarkets, and an … Continue reading
Posted in Brisbane, Budget, Macroeconomy, Queensland Government
Tagged brisbane, coronavirus, covid, debt, greaterbrisbane, incomecontingentloan, jobkeeper, lockdown, mutantcovid, qldeconomy, qldgovernment, socialcontract, ukmutantstrain, uq
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COVID compared with wartime economic impacts – my latest podcast episode
The latest episode of my Economics Explored podcast features a conversation on whether COVID can be compared to wartime. The episode considers the different scales and scopes of the shocks, and what it all means for prospects for economic recovery. In … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Macroeconomy
Tagged australia, bankofengland, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, debt, fed, gdp, money, production, rba, stimulus, unemployment, usa, wartime, worldwar2, ww2
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Proposed COVID Royal Commission – great ABC radio interview from Scott Prasser
Dr Scott Prasser, Senior Fellow at the CIS, gave a great ABC radio interview this morning on the proposal from former state Premiers Peter Beattie and Jeff Kennett for a Royal Commission into Australia’s COVID response. For background, check out … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Macroeconomy
Tagged australia, borderclosures, cis, cmo, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, productivitycommission, qld, qldgovernment, queensland, royalcommission
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Christmas Eve post-6pm public holiday should have been repealed in this year of COVID
A prominent Brisbane man about town and long-time QEW reader has reminded me that last year I posted on the ridiculous Christmas Eve half-day public holiday, and he said that it was particularly costly in this year of COVID. Here’s … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Macroeconomy, Retail trade
Tagged coronavirus, covid, covid-19, jobs, labourmarket, penaltyrates, qld, qldgovernment, queensland, retailtrade, students, teenagers
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Qld Treasurer was premature in claiming recovery to pre-COVID jobs level
Last month, I dissected the Queensland Treasurer’s bold claim that more Queenslanders are working now than were working pre-COVID (check out my 21 November post). I thought it was a bold claim given a) the substantial sampling error at the … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Macroeconomy
Tagged abs, employment, jobs, labourforcesurvey, qld, unemploymentrate
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Money and cryptocurrency – my latest podcast episode
When I recorded the latest episode of my Economics Explored podcast last Friday afternoon, the price of one Bitcoin was a bit above US$18,000 after having failed to get beyond US$20,000 in the previous weeks. In my chat with my … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged 2020, bitcoin, coronavirus, covid-19, cryptocurrency, gold, greaterfooltheory, hyperinflation, mmt, money, qe
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Huge swings in Bitcoin value make it hard to believe it will ever replace traditional currencies
The Bitcoin price was getting close to US$20,000 at the end of last month, but has since come down to a bit over US$18,000. In March, it was around US$5,000 (see chart above). There has been a lot of speculative … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged bitcoin, crypto, cryptocurrency, inflation, mmt, modernmonetarytheory, money
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Aussies over-confident after being over-compensated by Gov’t for COVID-recession
Today we learned that, as Reuters reports, Australia consumer sentiment hits 10-year high (see chart above). This is despite Chinese trade restrictions and the looming insolvency tsunami in the new year and the fiscal cliff in April 2021. Sure, given … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged abs, australia, consumerconfidence, consumers, government, nationalaccounts
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