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- Gutsy submission from Joe Branigan to regional decentralisation inquiry questioning inquiry’s rationale
- Technological disruption & NQ business – JCU Townsville event on Thursday 26 October
- Pros and cons of a $300M royalties holiday for the Adani mega mine
- Top twenty largest cities and towns in Queensland by population
- Heat map of Brisbane metro property prices – big opportunities in the Western corridor?
- Qld Solar Bonus Scheme shows how bad government policy can cost taxpayers for a long time
- Go Brisbane! My comments in today’s Courier-Mail on Brisbane’s economic future
- Review of South Brisbane candidate Cameron Murray’s Game of Mates in CIS Policy magazine
- Why the Adani mega mine is welcome news in Townsville
- What is the Four Pillars' share of the Queensland economy?
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Tag Archives: interestrates
RBA making it up as it goes along
After a speech by Assistant RBA Governor Michele Bullock yesterday, there is speculation about the RBA pushing APRA to instruct banks to further restrain their lending to housing investors- strengthening the so-called macro-prudential regulation that has had only limited success … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged bubble, fed, federalfundsrate, housing, housingbubble, interestrates, propertymarket, rba, sydneymelbourne, us, usfederalreserve
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Recommended holiday reading: The Man Who Knew
The best economics and finance book of 2016 is undoubtedly Sebastian Mallaby’s masterful biography of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, The Man Who Knew. Greenspan was the man who knew that superficially healthy economies, with steady economic growth and … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged alangreenspan, fed, federalreserve, greenspan, inflation, interestrates, manwhoknew, monetarypolicy, usfed
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US recovery on track, while Australian economists wait anxiously for latest National Accounts
The latest US jobs data show an economy that is growing quite nicely, with 178,000 new jobs over the last month, and with unemployment falling to 4.6%, its lowest rate since the financial crisis (see chart below). However, the market … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Macroeconomy, Mining, North Queensland, Townsville, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, agriculture, australianeconomy, bls, cashrate, china, fed, federalreserve, fundsrate, interestrates, japan, nationalaccounts, teq, tourism, us, useconomy, wages, wheat
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New motor vehicle sales lower in Qld than before financial crisis
New motor vehicle sales data for April released by the ABS yesterday support the RBA Board’s decision to cut the cash rate on Budget day earlier this month, with sales down 2.5% in April nationwide, and down 7.7% in Queensland, … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, australia, cars, cashrate, interestrates, newvehiclesales, qld, queensland, rba, rbaboard
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Don’t miss 16 June Brisbane speech by RBA Deputy Governor Philip Lowe, the Bank’s next Governor
At a lunchtime event at Tattersall’s Club in Brisbane yesterday, after he predicted another interest rate cut this year in either June or August, Dr Chris Caton, BT’s Chief Economist, noted that “Interest rate changes are like cockroaches.” That is, … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged australia, brisbane, bt, cashrate, economy, hilton, interestrates, morgans, rba
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Exciting week for economy watchers: State of the States, a possible rate cut, and the Budget
CommSec’s latest State of the States Report is out today, and, while I think its placement of Queensland in around the middle of Australia’s States and Territories (5th out of 8) is reasonable, I have some sympathy for Queensland Treasurer … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Housing, Infrastructure, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged assetrecycling, budget, commsec, gst, houseprices, infrastructure, interestrates, qld, qldeconomy, queensland, rba, stateofthestates, units
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Upcoming CPA Australia NFP conference
The discouraging January labour force data released by the ABS yesterday make the economic outlook even more interesting, and Adam Creighton from The Australian is certainly correct that the weak labour market, which saw an increase in the national unemployment … Continue reading
Posted in nfps, Uncategorized
Tagged australia, cpa, cpaaustralia, impactinvesting, interestrates, nfp, nonprofit, notforprofit, rba, sharedservices, socialbenefitbonds, unemploymentrate
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