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The Dismal Science

Mar 26, 2021

With fears it may once again be on the rise, we talk all things inflation. What causes it? Why is it bad? And is it coming back? Plus, how much slack is left in the labour market and has the fun stopped for GameStop?


Mar 19, 2021

Australia is a global laggard on the vaccine rollout and is well off the pace to meet its targets. So what is the rest of the world getting right, what are we getting wrong and should we be concerned? Plus, employment gets back to pre-pandemic levels and what is a non-fungible token?


Mar 12, 2021

The US is about to embark on a grand fiscal experiment to run the economy hot, while in Australia Governor Philip Lowe is promising the same on the monetary side until 2024. We look at the new radical orthodoxy. Plus, the latest GDP numbers, the government attempts to save the tourism industry and the city or the bush.


Mar 5, 2021

Crises change economic thinking. Live from the Australian Governance Summit, we look at what economists have learned from the pandemic, plus the latest jobs numbers and is inflation coming back?

We recorded this episode on 1 March.