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Mon, 21/04/2025 - 13:03
It is a public holiday in Australia today and I decided that I would use the time, which is free of workplace-type interruptions, to work on a project that has an impending (very) deadline. I also did a podcast interview with the team at Macro and Cheese on the state of American this morning. So…
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Fri, 18/04/2025 - 08:33
Dear Readers I apologise for the lack of connectivity over the last 36 hours or so. My research centre and related WWW pages are delivered by servers that we maintain within a larger data centre in Adelaide. On Wednesday evening sometime, that centre facility had a catastrophic power failure that took down all the racks…
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Wed, 08/01/2025 - 13:59
Today (November 27, 2024), the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest – Monthly Consumer Price Index Indicator – for November 2024, which showed that the annual underlying inflation rate, which excludes volatile items continues to fall – from 3.5 per cent to 3.2 per cent. The overall CPI rate (including the volatile items)…
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Sun, 29/12/2024 - 17:29
My blog is on holidays until Monday, January 6, 2025. While my blog is having a break I am catching up on various projects which I want to advance to finality in 2025. Our macroeconomics textbook will come out with a second edition in early 2026 and we are working on that now. I am…
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Wed, 16/10/2024 - 17:48
It’s Wednesday and as usual I am writing about a few issues rather than providing a detailed analysis of a specific issue. Today, I publish the video of Australian launch of our new book – Modern Monetary Theory: Bill and Warren’s Excellent Adventure. I also comment on the current situation in the Middle East and…
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Thu, 12/09/2024 - 14:43
On Tuesday (September 10, 2024), the UK House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee released their first report for the Session 2024-25 (HL Paper 5) – National debt: it’s time for tough decisions – which was the result of their decision to hold an inquiry – How sustainable is our national debt? – into whether “UK’s…
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Mon, 02/09/2024 - 15:38
I haven’t much time today and I am trying to work out how I am going to get home (a 1,100 km journey) amidst travel chaos wrought by extreme weather conditions in South East Australia over the last few days. The weather disruptions to travel are becoming more common in Australia and the associated property…