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Although unpleasant, stopping almost everything for eight to twelve weeks might be the best way to bounce back qucikly.
The government has announced it’s $17.6 billion stimulus package, focused on investment in business, boosting cashflow, and putting cash in the hands of lower income earners.
The government’s has detailed it stimulus measures, which will include a $25,000 cash flow boost for small and medium-sized businesses.
The Fed and Congress have little ammunition available for fighting an economic downturn if COVID-19 triggers one.
Every one of the 13 economists surveyed by The Conversation thinks more stimulus is needed. None think it should all come from the Reserve Bank. Most think the budget surplus can wait.
Just a few hours after birth, infants show a preference for human faces. Over the next few months, they learn from facial expressions.
It will take more than monetary policy to get Australia’s business and consumer confidence back on track.
Mario Draghi almost single-handedly rescued the Eurozone from disaster two years ago, by pledging to do “whatever it takes to preserve the euro”, so the appeal from the European Central Bank (ECB) chief…
Average household incomes in Australia defied the global financial crisis to increase substantially in the 2008-09 financial year, and life satisfaction levels were unaffected by the downturn, according…
Last week’s decision by China to cut interest rates by 0.25% seemed to attract almost as much attention in Australia as the same decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) several days earlier. The…
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