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Tag Archives: rba
PM calls jobs boom, RBA warns of crypto crash, and UK inflation highest in 10 years – upcoming livestream
As I’ve been covering on QEW and will discuss on today’s livestream (link above), there’s a lot of exuberance and optimism about the great Aussie reopening, and PM Scott Morrison has forecast a “jobs boom” based on healthy job vacancies … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged australia, bitcoin, covid-19, cpi, crypto, immigration, inflation, jobs, rba, uk, vacancies
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Young Economists to debate housing affordability measures
There is an interesting upcoming online debate on measures designed to improve housing affordability among young economists on Thursday 16 September 2021, to be hosted by the Young Economists Network of the Economic Society of Australia (ESA). Here’s the blurb: … Continue reading
Posted in Housing
Tagged australia, housing, macroprudential, qe, quantitativeeasing, rba
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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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Interest rates and inflation with Michael Knox, Chief Economist of Morgans
Jonathan Shapiro has an interesting article in the Financial Review, Why the market has suddenly woken up to inflation, in which he writes: …the lower-for-longer [interest rates] doubters are re-emerging. They believe deliberately slow-to-act central banks in the US and … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged australia, bearmarket, bonds, fed, inflation, interestrates, monetarypolicy, qe, quantitativeeasing, rba, usa
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Most houses approved in one month in Qld since time of high interstate migration in 90s
The Housing Industry Association was quick to proclaim Detached Building Approvals Reach Record High after the ABS published the December building approvals data today. “Detached building approvals” are approvals for houses, as opposed to approvals for apartments or townhouses. Obviously, … Continue reading
Posted in Housing
Tagged abs, banks, buildingapprovals, buildingindustry, construction, corelogic, gdp, gsp, homebuilder, houseprices, interstatemigration, jobkeeper, jobseeker, monetarypolicy, propertyprices, qld, queensland, rba
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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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RBA Governor Lowe does Treasurer Dick a favour in lead up to 1 December Qld Budget
Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick is facing a tough challenge developing the COVID-recession-ravaged state budget, but the Reserve Bank of Australia will make his task a little bit easier with its new round of Quantitative Easing, by which it purchases Australian … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged monetarypolicy, qe, qld, qldgovernment, quantitativeeasing, queensland, rba
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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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The Deficit Myth and Modern Monetary Theory – latest podcast episode
I’ve recorded some thoughts on Stephanie Kelton’s best-selling book The Deficit Myth which is popularising so-called Modern Monetary Theory: The Deficit Myth and Modern Monetary Theory – initial views In my recorded conversation with my Adept Economics colleague Ben Scott, … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Macroeconomy
Tagged australia, balancesheet, banks, bonds, centralbank, crowdingout, debt, deficits, economics, economy, fed, fiatmoney, inflation, mmt, modernmonetarytheory, money, qe, quantitativeeasing, rba, unemployment, usa
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Premier’s border decision helps, but it’s still early days in any recovery from virus recession
The Queensland Premier’s decision to reopen the border to non-Victorian interstate travellers and to bring forward the relaxation of a range of restrictions will no doubt provide a bit of a boost to the economy (e.g. the Courier-Mail is reporting … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Macroeconomy, Queensland Government, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid-19, interstateborder, jobkeeper, jobseeker, nsw, qld, queensland, rba, stimulus, victoria, zombiefirms
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