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Retirement income review must focus on women: KPMG

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2020
... equality in workforce participation rates, which would help solve much of the problem earlier in the process. "Our economists estimated that a halving of the gap between male and female participation would see the country's GDP would benefit by $60 billion ...

Chief economist update:China prepares anti-viral injection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... ($217 billion) in losses to the restaurant, tourism and movie industries in seven days of the Lunar New Year holiday, economists estimated. "In the best-case scenario, which assumes the epidemic can be quickly contained and brought to an end by April ...

Aussie stocks burnt in blaze

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... our retail, insurance, agriculture and transport sectors. The Australian economy is also not without risk, with many economists predicting that the bushfire crisis could drag GDP by 0.25% for both the fourth quarter 2019 and the first quarter 2020. New ...

Chief economist update: Bushfires singe growth, surplus predictions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... January 2020), "Australian economic outlook overshadowed by bushfires, drought: Reuters poll". According to the article: "Economists polled by Reuters forecast Australia's A$2 trillion ($1.4 trillion) of annual gross domestic product (GDP) would ...

Chief economist update: Moving target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2020
... the same time that the Fed is pondering to let inflation loose and hang free, the AFR reports: "A growing number of economists believe the Reserve Bank of Australia should reduce its 2 to 3 per cent medium-term inflation target... to between 1 and 3%". ...

Chief economist update: Missing the burning forests for the surplus tree

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... 2020 and this year's surplus is looking a lot like... it won't happen (again). That's not the problem. Economists and financial markets had been egging (begging) the government to ditch its surplus obsession to aid the RBA in boosting economic ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone negative rates a failure?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
"Give me a one-handed economist. All my economists say 'on one hand...', then 'but on the other..." - Harry Truman The AFR recently published an opinion piece from Kate Samranvedhya - a Bachelor of Science in Economics graduate from Massachusetts ...

Chief economist update: As low as Lowe will go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
The RBA's growth and inflation forecasts and the Taylor Rule calls for just one more rate cut next year. So there we have it ladies and gents, the answer to every Australian's question du jour, how low will domestic interest rates go? I posed ...

Chief economist update: Let's talk about debt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
... role in strengthening economic growth". They're not alone - ABC published a report earlier this month asking "13 economists how to fix the economy" and found: "Seven of the 13 say what is needed most is fiscal stimulus (including extra government ...

Chief economist update: Future path of fed funds rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... respectively. These were, more or less, the same numbers that the Reuters' poll (pre-September FOMC announcement) of 120 economists responded to, that revealed that majority of the respondents think the Fed will cut rates to 1.75%-2% in September ...