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Tag Archives: monetarypolicy
Michael Knox on Quantitative Easing as a long-term strategy
Australia’s money supply has surged over the year as the RBA has undertaken Quantitative Easing (QE), electronically printing new money to buy Australian and state government bonds and to lend to the banks (see the chart of M3, a measure … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged australia, fed, fiscalpolicy, inflation, macroeconomicpolicy, monetarypolicy, qe, quantitativeeasing, rba, reservebank, usa
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Benefits of going cashless in addition to social distancing
Regular QEW reader Denise alerted me to an article on the New Normal in Dining (in this time of coronavirus) in the Murdoch papers this week, which reported: Restaurants and Catering Australia said many measure that are in place currently … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged australia, blackeconomy, cash, cashlesssociety, dining, monetarypolicy, moneylaundering, papercurrency, socialdistancing, zerolowerbound, zlb
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Forty years after Thatcher’s election – CIS event in Brisbane on Thursday 2 May
This Friday, the 3rd of May, is the 40th anniversary of the 1979 UK election which saw Margaret Thatcher become Prime Minister. It is doubtful that any UK Prime Minister since Thatcher will loom as large in our collective memory … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged britain, cis, conservativeparty, conservatives, labour, monetarism, monetarypolicy, privatisation, thatcher, tories, uk
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Luckily Qld property prices never reached crazy levels that NSW’s and Victoria’s did – now less room to fall
Michael Janda at ABC News has a good summary of the residential property price data for December quarter published yesterday by the ABS: Australia’s $133 billion property price slide rapidly becoming the worst in modern history This correction has been … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, Uncategorized
Tagged abc, abs, australia, bubble, datascience, esaqld, houseprices, housingbubble, monetarypolicy, nsw, propertyprices, qld, queensland, r, rba, sydney, victoria
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RBA Deputy Governor Guy Debelle’s Low Inflation address to ESA Qld at the Brisbane Hilton
Last Wednesday, RBA Deputy Governor Guy Debelle addressed the ESA (Qld) business lunch at the Brisbane Hilton on the topic of low inflation.* The Deputy Governor took the audience through the different components of the consumer price index (CPI) and … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged cigarettes, cpi, electricityprices, esaqld, houseprices, housingcosts, inflation, inflationtargeting, monetarypolicy, rba
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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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Great presentation by HSBC’s Paul Bloxham on the economic outlook to ESA Qld
In Brisbane today, HSBC’s Chief Economist (Australia & NZ) Paul Bloxham gave a terrific presentation on the economic outlook to the Queensland branch of the Economic Society of Australia, of which I am the Secretary. You can download his slides, … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged australia, china, economicoutlook, economy, esaqld, fed, federalreserve, gdp, hsbc, miningboom, monetarypolicy, rba, services, unitedstates, us
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What I’m reading – Bernanke’s Courage to Act
One of my favourite passages in Ben Bernanke’s memoir of the financial crisis and its aftermath, The Courage to Act, describes how, on the way to the Federal Reserve building to deal with the imploding Bear Stearns, Bernanke takes the … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged bernanke, fed, federalreserve, financialcrisis, fundsrate, greenspan, housingbubble, inflation, inflationtargeting, interestrates, janetyellen, monetarypolicy, us, usfed
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New evidence stimulus worsened our competitiveness from Makin & Ratnasiri
Griffith University Economics Professor Tony Makin and his co-author Shyama Ratnasiri have just published an interesting paper (Competitiveness and government expenditure: The Australian example) presenting new econometric evidence that suggests fiscal stimulus in response to the financial crisis worsened Australia’s … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged aussiedollar, australia, budget, competitiveness, exchangerate, exports, fiscalpolicy, interestrates, monetarypolicy, nontradables, rba, stimulus
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