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Vital Signs: Australia's hairdressing-led economic recovery can't last

04 Mar 2022

Australia’s GDP was up 3.4 per cent last quarter of 2021, on the back of pent-up consumer spending. Other factors must drive future growth.

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What’s wrong with Australian mortgages? They’re fixed for shareholders, not home owners

04 Feb 2022

There’s no reason why Australian lenders couldn’t offer 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, as they do in the US.

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Vital Signs: it’s too early for the RBA to pull the trigger on interest rates

28 Jan 2022

The case for the RBA increasing interest rates certainly exists. But it’s far less pressing than in the United States.

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Vital Signs: we're doing well despite Delta, but 3 major economic challenges loom

17 Sep 2021

Australia faces economic problems down the road if three big, structural reform areas – housing affordability, the tax mix, and decarbonisation – are not addressed.

Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe

The RBA is not a law unto itself - an external review would be good for it

13 Aug 2021

The independence of Australia’s central bank doesn’t make it infallible. It should welcome peer review.

Philip Lowe, an Australian economist who is the current Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia

Vital Signs: RBA governor Philip Lowe's dangerous game on interest rates

09 Jul 2021

The Reserve Bank governor's 'forward guidance' risks him not adapting to changing circumstances, or undermining his credibility.

Vital Signs: It's not the Reserve Bank's job to worry about housing prices

11 Jun 2021

The RBA shouldn't be spooked into raising interest rates, but the prospect of inflation in the next few years is an important consideration for central banks around the world.

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Vital Signs: We are on the way back, but there are risks at every turn

05 Feb 2021

Our continued recovery depends on how much we spend and how quickly we get the vaccine.

Bleak 2020 forecast for the Australian economy

06 Dec 2019

Weak GDP growth and the US-China trade dispute remain prominent economic challenges for 2020 according to UNSW's Professor Richard Holden.

Why the RBA needs to cut rates tomorrow

06 May 2019

When the Reserve Bank considers the numbers around inflation, it knows it has little choice but to act, says Professor Richard Holden.

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