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Can the World Economy Avoid Entering a Doom Loop?

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A New Podcast From the AICD

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220 - The RBA's Confident-but-also-Uncertain rate cut

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219 - Markets, Tariffs, and the RBA Outlook

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218 - What should the RBA do?

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Special - Trump, Tariffs and Turmoil

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Dismal Science Live at AGS: US Markets, CHIPS Act, Geopolitical Shifts, and Australian Economic Concerns

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217 - GDP Relief and a Fracturing Global Order

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216 - Eight reasons a soft landing is uncertain

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215 - 🍾 Rate Cut Victory Lap! 🍾 AI's Sputnik Moment & the US' Smoot-Hawley Moment.

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Special - Tech, AI, the New World Order, and the Future of Growth

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Special - 2024 Wrap Up: A Year of Living Conservatively Ft. Su-Lin Ong

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214 - February Rate Cut Back On The Table?

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213 - GDP Growth Stumbles, Per Capita Recession Deepens, Will the RBA Hold Firm?

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212 - Is Germany Kaput? Lessons for Australia in a Deglobalising World

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211 - Rate Cut Prediction on Life Support? Labour Market Holds Strong & COP29 Gets Political

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US Election Special: The Return of Tariff Man

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210 - Wage Growth Slows, Consumer Sentiment Lifts...but for How Long?

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209 - US Election Volatility! Plus the RBA Holds, But For How Long?

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208 - Inflation Cools, But Services Stay Hot. Will Rate Cuts Come Sooner?

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207 - IMF says "Mission Accomplished"? Bumper jobs numbers, and revisiting Mark's prediction...

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206 - Oil price swings, China stimulus fallout, RBA minutes, and consumer confidence.

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205 - Housing is cooling, back to back surpluses, we're still unproductive, and the complexities of oil pricing.

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204 - Inflation trends maybe good? Interest rates stuck & China's sweeping monetary moves.

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203 - Labour market news, a pacy 50 bps Fed rate cut, and how Middle East unrest affects us down here.

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202 - Central bank independence in a changing world; from the RBA to the CBRT

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201 - Mark's Return: A brief global market meltdown, the RBA's "don't call it forward guidance" guidance, and our sluggish GDP numbers.

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200 - A long goodbye

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199 - A marriage of convenience

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198 - Tour de Canberra

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197 - I mean it's one burrito Mark, what could it cost? $111?

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196 - Succulent Chinese deal

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195 - Diverging paths

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194 - The shipping news

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193 - Risky business (with guest Roger Dennis)

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192 - The juggler (Budget 24/25)

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191 - Chart with decreasing yen emoji

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190 - A Cook's tour

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189 - Not out of the woods

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188 - Industrial chic

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187 - Lost in the supermarket

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186 - Statistical error

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185 - Productivity puzzle (Live at the AGS)

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184 - Per capita pain

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183 - Narrowing path

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182 - Trade daze

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181 - Bumpy road

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180 - Speak now

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179 - This one's optimistic

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178 - Stage 3 and me

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177 - Twenty twenty more

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176 - A merry little quizmas

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175 - Polyphonic spree

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174 - Hitting the wall

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173 - Mileinarianism

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172 - Raise you

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171 - Higher, longer, faster, stronger?

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170 - Here we go again

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169 - Geo noir

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168 - Goldin hour

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167 - The red and the white

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166 - Proceed carefully

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165 - Slow Gurner

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164 - Lowe's last stand

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163 - The consolation of philosophy

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162 - Talkin bout intergeneration

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161 - Missing values

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160 - Is China the new Japan?

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159 - Are we there yet?

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158 - Heading in the right direction

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157 - Bullock at the gate

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156 - Skip it

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155 - The 400 blows

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154 - Dancing on the ceiling

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153 - Talking the talk

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152 - Predictably rational

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151 - Lucky Jim

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150 - Surprise!

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149 - Past the peak

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148 - The review is in

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147 - Cold comfort

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146 - Rising again

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145 - A pause please

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144 - Suisse miss

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143 - Silicon Valley Bank: 5 big questions from the collapse

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142 - Vox moderatoris, vox dei

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141 - Stable diffusion (Live at the AGS)

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140 - They go Lowe

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139 - 5 big economic questions for 2023

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138 - Wonderful Quizmastime

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137 - AI told you so

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136 - Back in the bottle?

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135 - Loss and damage

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134 - Korea, guidance

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133 - It must mean we're DSGEsting

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132 - Without reservation

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131 - Chalmers, China, and Cheese

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130 - Migration, Minutes and Missing Data

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129 - Doom, Gloom and Working on Zoom

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128 - Rising Rates, Tax Talk, and a UK U-turn