ROSS GITTINS
ECONOMICS EDITOR, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020
At last we’ve been shown the virus game plan. Boring
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I grew up in the Great Depression. Well, not really, but there were times when it certainly felt like it. The Depression was my father’s fav...
Monday, March 16, 2020
Avoiding the R-word won't be as easy as boosting June quarter
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Sorry to be blunt, but anyone who thinks avoiding a second quarter of decline in real gross domestic product means avoiding recession needs ...
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Too soon to say how hard virus will hit economy
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To judge by the gyrations of the world’s sharemarkets, the coronavirus has us either off to hell in a handcart or the markets are panicking ...
Friday, March 13, 2020
Morrison's trickle-down stimulus may not be enough
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I hope I’m wrong, but I doubt if Scott Morrison’s $17.6 billion stimulus package is big enough to stop the temporary shock of the coronavir...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
It will take time to get used to living with the new virus
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The coronavirus is deadly – it will end up killing quite a few oldies – but we (and the rest of the world) are making so much fuss about it...
Monday, March 9, 2020
Back in Black one minute, loose talk of recession the next
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For most of last year, people kept asking me if our slowing economy was headed for recession. I always replied that we weren’t, but that our...
Saturday, March 7, 2020
Coronavirus will hit an economy that’s already weak
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It’s good to know the economy wasn’t as weak as we’d been told, but it’s not nearly good enough. Not when we know it’s getting walloped thi...
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow the virus won't get you
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The coronavirus will harm the economy – ours and the world's – but how much damage it does will be determined not just by how far and h...
Monday, March 2, 2020
Productivity problem? Start at the bottom, not the top
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Whenever we’re told we’re not achieving much improvement in our productivity, a lot of people assume it must be something the government’s d...
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Despite neglect, we're muddling towards low-carbon electricity
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To coin a phrase, Australia’s governments are making heavy weather of their efforts to give us an electricity system that’s secure, reliable...
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