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The pace of US business investment has fallen by about 50% over the past 50 years. Idle capacity, not cautious executives, explains the decline, research suggests.
Business investment is mired at 30-year lows. Why is it so weak and what needs to change?
The economy grew more slowly than expected in the March quarter, as extreme weather and a slowdown in government spending dampened growth.
For the first time, some ideas for reform have been crowdsourced from across the Australian community. Here are a few of the best ideas.
The end of the election season could bring a sigh of relief to businesses.
How much “customer interaction uncertainty” does your business deal with? The answer should guide your thinking about AI.
The UK government has recently indicated that it could make some surprise tax announcements in coming days.
Increasing productivity means increasing investment, but raising interest rates makes businesses do the opposite.
The Conversation’s expert panel predicts prices will rise faster than Australians’ pay can keep up in 2022 – and that’s not their only concern about the local economy.
Outside of a few superstar firms investing heavily in artificial intelligence, investment by Australian businesses has been shrinking for a decade and isn’t set to bounce back.
Only five of the 56 economists surveyed believed lower immigration would boost wage growth. The rest backed measures to lift productivity and investment and changes that boosted the power of unions.
Businesses won’t employ more people unless they are prepared to invest. Figures out on Thursday suggest they are.
Without a jump in consumer spending the recovery will be slow, and that’s in doubt.
There’s more to that Coronavirus. Even before it, businesses weren’t keen to invest.
The government will extend its $150,000 instant assets write-off until the end of the year
Businesses are reluctant to invest, but that might be because they know what they are doing.
Germany’s rising inequality shows what happens when consumers and companies don’t widely embrace innovation.
The government can help boost business investment, but it would take a boost in government investment and would keep the budget in deficit.
The Fed abruptly ended two years of aggressive interest rate hikes, signaling the longest economic expansion on record may be coming to a close.
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Director, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Sydney
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Finance, University of Stirling
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Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of Surrey
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Affiliated Researcher, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), United Nations University
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Lecturer, Zicklin College of Business; Advisor, Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship, Baruch College, CUNY
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Distinguished Visiting Professor in Economics, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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PhD candidate, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of Management and Business, Skidmore College
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Associate Professor of Business, University of Victoria
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics, University of Washington