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Calls for Royal Commission into housing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... alarming report on the state of the Australian housing market, referring to it as a "beast" that is "rampaging through the economy". The researchers are calling for a Royal Commission into the housing future of Australia, with the housing market now ...

Chief economist update: How do you solve a problem like Australia's housing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... general economy undone. If the Reserve Bank of Australia and APRA huff and puff, they could blow the house down and the economy with it.

Chief economist update: Anchoring the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
"We have to take the economy through the pandemic and into a recovery phase, which has now started. We need to really anchor the recovery. We always talk about inflation anchoring and we are not oblivious to that. But the recovery needs to be firm ...

Chief economist update: Deflated expectations lift deflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... expected to move above 2 percent... we are also likely to see upward pressure on prices from the rebound in spending as the economy continues to reopen, particularly if supply bottlenecks limit how quickly production can respond in the near term. However ...

Chief economist update: The devil's in the headline US payrolls number details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... accommodation in the very near future. The day was June 4 - the day the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the economy generated only 559,000 jobs in May, missing consensus expectations for the creation of 650,000 to the employment heap. ...

Chief economist update: Victoria's victory against the virus voided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
... Financial Review' (AFR), Factset reports that, "Business leaders estimate that Victoria's lockdown will cost the economy more than A$1B (some estimates of up to A$2B), with the effects compounded by the absence of support measures like JobKeeper". ...

Chief economist update: RBNZ will run out of patience next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... confidence in this outlook, they agreed on the need for caution as domestic activity remains uneven across sectors of the economy." Ergo: "The Committee agreed to maintain its current stimulatory monetary settings until it is confident that consumer ...

ERS applicants $3100 worse off

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
... thinktank, found that over three million Australians who took advantage of the scheme lost out from the rapid recovery of the economy and share markets. Most super funds have now recovered up to 20% of their assets as a result of the V-shaped recovery. ...

Chief economist: The wages of slow wages growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
... its April missive, saying: "...wage and price pressures are subdued and are expected to remain so for some years. The economy is operating with considerable spare capacity and unemployment is still too high. It will take some time to reduce this spare ...

Tempered positivity post-pandemic: Experts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... similar policy responses to the pandemic - supporting lockdowns as a health response and pouring stimulus money into the economy, but Singh said this still raises questions about the future. But he cautioned that there is a question about the sustainability ...