The Economy, Stupid
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Formerly The Money, The Economy, Stupid is your weekly guide to the world of business, economics and finance. Every Thursday, economist Peter Martin is joined by a team of sharp young thinkers for a fresh conversation about the financial stories making headlines and how they might affect you.
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What can convict Australia tell us about the manosphere?
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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Harbour views and the full pension
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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Why not tax wealth, and why not start with billionaires?
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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The tricks they use to stop us getting cheaper petrol
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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Home prices are heading down, but how far?
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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Is tax reform even possible anymore?
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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How to avoid a world on fire
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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Is bracket creep saving us from ourselves?
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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Australia is in a 'vibecession' - is a recession next?
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Australia's $200 billion budget secret
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May 28, 2026 |
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How to end the tobacco wars
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May 21, 2026 |
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Could Labor's budget narrow the wealth gap?
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May 14, 2026 |
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The budget and housing — a fix?
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May 13, 2026 |
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Interest rate rises are designed to hurt. But how much is too much?
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May 07, 2026 |
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Inflation’s jumped again - is another rate rise coming?
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Australian gas is booming. But who benefits?
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Why we still can’t quit petrol even as prices soar
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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What could be in the budget?
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Australia’s baby bust: what happens when a nation stops replacing itself?
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Stagflation is about to push unemployment higher: here's what to expect
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Did the RBA just choose recession?
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Navigating a global energy crisis
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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War boosts GDP. But should it?
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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WA’s Special Deal: Fair Reward or Billion‑Dollar Rort?
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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The Most Explosive Tax Debate in Australia Is Back
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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A Carbon Tax Comeback?
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Will this be the last rate hike?
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Interest rates set to rise: what does that mean for you?
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Will house prices go up in 2026?
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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The price of mental illness
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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What would it take to house a nation?
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Could we really become a superpower?
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Why we don’t shop around (and why companies count on it)
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Superannuation: Are We Saving More Than We Need?
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Every revolution starts with a bubble. AI is no different
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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The 'weird' number running the country
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Is corporate social responsibility dead?
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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How COVID changed Australian jobs
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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An Uninsurable Future
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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But what if the AI bubble doesn’t burst?
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Why the official inflation rate feels wrong
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Australia is 'freaking amazing' - will that last?
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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'Sexually transmitted tax debt'
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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The great Australian wealth gap
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Superannuation: Are We Saving More Than We Need?
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Each Generation Better Off?
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Australia's 2035 Climate Target: Economic Hit or Miss?
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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When Trade Wars Hit Home
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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The Economy is Growing - But Will You Be Better Off?
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Can We Really Trust the Banks Again?
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Why Has Australia's Economic Progress Stalled?
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Who Should Pay More Tax in Australia?
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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How $1 Billion in Retirement Savings Vanished
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Inflation is down, so why is uncertainty rising?
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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The End of Cash?
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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What's With Trump and Tariffs?
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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A divided RBA
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Won't Somebody Think of the Millionaires?
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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How To Fix Tax?
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Can We Build It? Embracing Abundance
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Productivity, Climate and a Room Full of Ideas
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Wages are up, GDP growth is down, what’s going on
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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How to spot the tricks suppliers use to stop us getting a better deal
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May 29, 2025 |
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Rates are falling. Inflation is steady. So what now?
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May 22, 2025 |
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Is monopsony worse than monopoly?
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May 15, 2025 |
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Reform ready: What Albanese could do now
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May 08, 2025 |
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Inflation is down so why do we keep going on about the price of eggs?
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May 01, 2025 |
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What exactly is a recession?
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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TikTok vs Louis Vuitton: How China's revenge tariffs are crashing the luxury market
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Has Trump put my financial future at risk?
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Liberation Day fallout: How Trump's tariffs will hit Australia
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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The election budget: would you rather a cut in tax (albeit small) or a year of cheaper petrol?
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Australians spend more on beer than power – so why do electricity bills hurt more?
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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A changed world: What's Australia's new reality in Trump's economic gamble?
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Cyclone Alfred could boost the next GDP figure. Here’s why the numbers don’t add up
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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A deal with god: is super annuity the answer?
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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The RBA’s rate cut: a quick fix or a band-aid? How it affects you and why there might not be more to come
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Tariff whiplash and Australia's inflation dragon
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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How much would a tariff war hurt, really?
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Is a rate cut (finally) on the cards?
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Trump is back: Here's what it means for you (and your wallet)
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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INTRODUCING — The Economy Stupid
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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The High Costs of Losing Sleep
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Story of Human Progress Through Six Materials
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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The end of 'The Money'
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Why the NDIS is not enough
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Dangerous Mondays and Black Fridays
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Is Germany's economic power under threat?
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Trumpenomics 2.0
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Should dental care be part of Medicare?
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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As America goes to the polls, the economy is doing well, but people aren't feeling it
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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The true cost of AI
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Can we afford weight-loss drugs for all?
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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The global weapons industry and what it's worth
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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How religions work as businesses - an economic analysis
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Each time you tap, you pay a little extra, and it all adds up
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Should ASIC be split to ensure better corporate regulation?
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Is the Reserve Bank doing a good enough job?
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Will the escalating cost of media sports rights change what we can watch?
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Today's money is mobile and digital. So how might it evolve?
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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The Cost of Loyalty Programs
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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The global race to the moon is on again
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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The Olympics are amazing, but what do they cost?
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Do CEOs deserve their huge salaries?
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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What have we learned from Crowdstrike's billion dollar IT outage?
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Our love affair with shopping malls
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Indigenous business and housing ownership is on the up
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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How do people plan to use extra money from Stage III tax cuts?
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Immigration: Costs and benefits
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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High-tech laundering - how crims use technology to make dirty money clean
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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The coffee paradox
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Low or No Alcohol: The Economics of Moderation
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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The TikTok Economy
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May 30, 2024 |
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Diamond Disruption: Lab Grown vs Mined, which gem would you choose?
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May 23, 2024 |
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Marking the Treasurer’s work: Three leading economists discuss the federal budget.
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May 16, 2024 |
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The Sleepless Economy: The High Costs of Losing Shut Eye
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May 09, 2024 |
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Global Growth: The Benefits vs The Consequences
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May 02, 2024 |
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All By Myself: The Economics of Loneliness.
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Hackenomics
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Puffed out: The Costs of Vaping
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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The Economics of Daylight Saving: It’s All In The Timing
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Choconomics: The Rising Cost Of Chocolate
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Inheritocracy: The lasting generational advantages of home ownership
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Sharing the Benefits of Innovation
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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The Cost of Wage Theft
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Market Concentration of the Beer Industry
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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The Economic Cost of Illiteracy
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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A material world
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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The Cost of Loyalty Programs
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Climate Change Costs
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Supermarket prices
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Influence of the consulting industry and the long view
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Different generations talking about future generations
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Subscriptions, drip pricing and the cost of returning online shopping
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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The cost of tertiary education
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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The cost of live music
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Presentenomics
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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PNG and the IMF and, the future of cities
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Moves to make the RBA independent and The World Ahead report
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Improving competition both in Australia and within the EU and what shoppers want
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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The economies of Gaza and Israel and the new Chair of the Productivity Commission
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Headwinds and interest rates; consultancy companies and changes in the CPI
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Superannuation funds; interest rate decisions and business expenses
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Reporting ESG, global tax evasion and road charges
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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The economic crises that shaped globalisation. Beyond the now: The case for long term thinking.
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Inheritocracy: The lasting generational advantages of home ownership
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Competition in Australia. When a few financial institutions control everything.
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Getting to sustained full employment. Financial contagion and the GFC. Golf participation climbs when people are ‘working’ from home.
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Menopause is costing the economy a fortune. El Nino weather and its impact. Central Bank Digital Currencies explained.
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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We shouldn’t be as alarmed about an economic slowdown in China: Here’s why.
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Sucked in by drip pricing.
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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What’s holding up the green energy transition?
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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The 2023 Intergenerational report: Getting ready for 2063
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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The job market softens (a bit). Why we prefer tax agents. Would you trust an economist?
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Overdue invoices and what they signal. Working from home – employers v workers. The hidden costs of online shopping returns.
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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The move to higher mortgage costs. The value of name and place. Inequality and the reporting of finance
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Gigonomics and the Swifties
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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The next Reserve Bank Governor might be underestimated. She shouldn’t be. The French passion for their pensions. Tax groupthink.
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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A slowing economy? Debanking financial abusers. Taking on the money launderers.
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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HECS: Can we fix it?
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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July 1st changes. Hedging investments against inflation. Why asset managers own the world.
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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The next Reserve Bank Governor. A global minimum corporate tax. Are top shelf sports stars worth it?
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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WA and its share of the GST pie. China’s hopes for reserve currency status. The payment system gets an upgrade.
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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When a perfect storm hits the rental market
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Who is the World Bank's new boss? Crunch time for aged care. Insuring against cyber attacks.
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Why the Reserve bank wants unemployment to go higher. The case for long term thinking.
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May 25, 2023 |
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Blowout: Mega projects that don't deliver. Spending, cost of living and who's really under pressure
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May 18, 2023 |
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Budget review and budget hits with George Megalogenis and Frank Bongiorno
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May 11, 2023 |
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The US teetering on a catastrophe; inequality in Australia and increasing productivity
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May 04, 2023 |
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The link between economics and Mona Lisa and Wales striding towards a better future
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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The RBA review and what does full employment look like in Australia
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Credit card debt; reducing the fiscal gap and the risky business of insurance
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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RBA's decision, international banks and a manufacturing revival
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Interest rates, university incentives and CPI comparisons
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Bank contagion, submarines and jobs and the future of the workplace with AI
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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How to improve the future for young Australians and central bankers are talking
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Re-thinking insurance and improving migration systems for all
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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A financial crisis in the aged care sector
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Mariana Mazzucato on the Big Con and an economic view of the Russian invasion
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Could the RBA be getting it right?
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Medicare reform; the great inflation debate and the fuel tax credit scheme
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Sustainable financial taxonomies and buy now, pay later regulation
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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International trade and China's growing loneliness economy
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Beyond GDP: the health of a nation
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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The big business of online sports betting
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Streaming Services both video and music
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Economics and the environment
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Sanctions and Oligarchs
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Energy caps; Christmas spend and edible economics
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Energy prices; affordable housing and The World Ahead report
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Inflation, jobs, and tax and government
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Wages; the IMF; and climate change and democracy
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Costly floods and Chokepoint Capitalism
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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The very expensive US mid-term elections and IR in Denmark
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Rental Crisis
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Delivering a budget during difficult times
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Economic implications of the Chinese Communist Party Congress
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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How much tax is enough?
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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How copper may be the roadblock for a greener global economy
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Beyond GDP
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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The big business of online sports betting
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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The value of the British monarchy and streaming services
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Deciphering the Reserve Bank's language; China's economy and the bank of mum and dad
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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The Job Summit: changing jobs and the care economy; and financial stress despite low unemployment
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Andrew Leigh on a more dynamic economy; Europe's drought economies; inflationary psychology
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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ALP changes to the safeguard mechanism; repairing the environment from the Black Summer Fires; and Green Capitalism
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Getting digital with the RBA; CPI data; and simplifying the WTO
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Comparisons with New Zealand's interest rates; Warwick McKibbin on the RBA and targeting inflation and Russia's economy
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Economy update, the cost of FMD and corruption with the enablers
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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How to solve our health crisis and labour factors involved in WFH
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Wellbeing budget, gig agreement and multinationals
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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The limitations of central banks and living and developing on floodplains
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Thirty years of superannuation and from free to fair markets
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Energy and capacity mechanisms; the RBA interest rates and jobs and insurance companies and online data
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Consumer sentiment, the cost of gun violence in the US and the price of vegetables
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Energy costs, monetary policy and who is the better economic manager
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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RBA review; infrastructure spend and improving public service delivery
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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A new government and a new approach to climate and industrial relations and a re-set on global trade
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May 26, 2022 |
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Federal election and what isn't being discussed and red book, blue book
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May 19, 2022 |
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The global economy; the deficit issue and what can be done about manufacturing
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May 12, 2022 |
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Interest rates; unemployment stats and global military spend
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May 05, 2022 |
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Inflation and the RBA, foreign aid and the PRRT
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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NDIS costings, predicting elections and defaulting on foreign debt Russia and Sri Lanka
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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What's the youth unemployment figure? political party spend and the cost of rebuilding Ukraine
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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The cost of Australian elections; the French election and the growth of venture capital
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Did the Budget deliver?
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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What do you want from the budget?
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Inflationary factors and the need for tax reform
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Underinsurance, oil and gas and Britain's kleptocracy problem
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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The cost of increasing climate disasters and the economic warfare against Russia
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Economic benefits of improved parental leave and Spotify, where does the money go?
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Cybersecurity a top concern for CEOs; how to increase productivity and a book about money
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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How wages actually increase; the finances of aged care and the importance of economic history
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Economic Weapons
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Stephen Duckett and aged care
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Sarah Hunter's analysis of the RBA Governor's speech
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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RBA predictions; aged care and Economic Weapons
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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The economic lessons from the film Don't Look Up
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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What vaccine nationalism is costing the global economy
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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How to decipher recent economic indicators
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Sorting through economic indicators to determine where we are going and how has vaccine nationalism affected the global economy
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Indigenous business sector worth billions
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Jan 20, 2022 |