Stock markets have been falling all year on concern the world risks slipping into a recession, which begs the question: how would we know if we were in one?
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Technically, Australia isn’t in recession; but data shows we are effectively in a situation of negative growth.
Australia has had 24 years of consistent growth. Is it all about to come to a crashing end?
It’s economics 101: to pay down debt, you must restrict spending or raise taxes. To stoke an economy, you’ve got to do the opposite. So which way will this government go?
So the International Monetary Fund has revised its economic growth forecast for the UK upwards. It now expects 2.4% growth in the UK this year, up from the 1.9% they predicted a few months back. Cue celebratory…
Liberal MP Andrew Robb has criticised the rise in public debt under the current Gillard government in a recent ABC radio interview. During the interview, Robb claimed growth in public debt was excessive…
Japan might be the third largest economy in the world, but the past 20 years have seen its GDP growth rate fall behind that of its economic rivals, the US and UK. The outlook appears bleak. Recently, Japan…
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