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Yellen forebodes stagflation risks

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022
... environment is fraught with inflationary and slowdown risks. Some economists have gone so far as to predict a synchronised recession in the US, Europe, and China. While there is a chance of such an event materialising, Yellen maintained that while the ...

US Federal Reserve enacts biggest rate hike in 22 years

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022
... a substantial growth dislocation. The Federal Reserve may be caught between meeting inflation targets and causing a recession or allowing high inflation to persist into 2023. "Unfortunately, history is replete with failed central bank attempts at such ...

US stocks crumble after Jerome Powell's hawkish comments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2022
... was to "get demand and supply back in sync so that inflation moves down and do so without a slowdown that amounts to a recession."

Recession-style policy but no recession: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2022
Grattan Institute chief executive Danielle Wood has argued the federal government is spending as though there is a recession or a crisis, although there is no such situation. Speaking at the Financial Standard Chief Economist Forum in Sydney today ...

Water, water everywhere but nothing to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
... year 2020 brought lockdowns and social restrictions that, in turn, sent many (if not most) global economies into a deep recession. The year 2021 brought a recovery as government and central bank largesse succeeded in keeping incomes and businesses afloat. ...

Economic recap: Week to October 29

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2021
... with the United States' 13.9% and 0.23%, respectively. While, like the rest of the world, it didn't escape the recession wrought by the pandemic, it's one of the very few advanced economies that rebounded quickly. The annual rate of growth ...

Tasmania remains best performing state: CommSec

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
... of the nation - remarkable when you consider the COVID-19 challenges and when the broader Australian economy was in recession just over a year ago." The survey ranks each state and territory using eight key indicators, including economic growth, retail ...

Economic recap: Week to October 22

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
... consider stable inflation. They are correct of course. We only have to look back at the experience after the early 1990s recession. Back then, inflation moderated from the wilds swings of the decades before it and so did the instances of recession (until ...

Economic recap: Week to September 3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2021
... quarter. This is now compounded by China's recent act to punish Canberra which could tip Australia into a double-dip recession. Beijing's cutting down on steel production. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) figures show that China's ...

YFYS spurs half to change asset mix

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
Only half of superannuation funds will be prompted to change their investment profile as a result of the new Your Future, Your Super performance test, an Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees survey shows. The poll, conducted at AIST's ...