SAUL ESLAKE

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SAUL ESLAKE

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Yearly Archives: 2021


September employment data show ‘effective’ unemployment rate at 10.6%

News, The Australian Economy | 14th October 2021

Saul was interviewed by Sky News about the Septembfer labour orce report released on 14th October Australia could see a ‘net rebound’ in employment come November | Sky News Australia


Australia’s housing affordability crisis

Australian Society and Politics, Housing, News | 13th October 2021

Saul was interviewed for a special feature from the BBC World Service’s World Business Report on 13th October 2021


Coronavirus Impact Chart Pack 2021-10-09

Chart Pack | 9th October 2021

This week Saul Eslake’s weekly Coronavirus Impact Chart Pack is 166 pages long: – charts tracking the spread of Covid-19, globally and in Australia, and government responses to it; – the impact on the global economy and major individual economies such as China, Japan, other Asian economies, the US and Europe;financial and commodities markets; – […]


How serious is the inflation threat

The Global Economy | 7th October 2021

Presentation to a webinar hosted by Jamieson Coote Bonds, a Melbourne-based fixed income funds manager, on 7th October 2021


Social Policy in the post-Covid World

Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Housing, News | 4th October 2021

A presentation to the Board of the Australian Council to Homeless Persons, focussing on housing affordability (for both buyers and renters), income support for unemployed people and poverty reduction, and ‘fiscal sustainability’ for the Commonwealth and state & territory governments.


Fiscal Policy and Public Debt

Economic Policies, Economic Video | 2nd October 2021

 Login or subscribe to view the full video and presentation slides Login Subcribe In this webinar Saul focuse public debt. How worried should we be about the increase in the amount of debt incurred by Australia’s federal and state governments since the onset of Covid-19?  Is it important that public debt be “paid off” […]


Coronavirus Impact Chart Pack 2021-10-02

Chart Pack | 2nd October 2021

This week Saul Eslake’s weekly Coronavirus Impact Chart Pack is 168 pages long: – charts tracking the spread of Covid-19, globally and in Australia, and government responses to it; – the impact on the global economy and major individual economies such as China, Japan, other Asian economies, the US and Europe;financial and commodities markets; – […]


Video and Presentation Slides: Fiscal Policy and Public Debt

Economic Policies | 29th September 2021

Saul Eslake’s webinar on fiscal policy and public debt. How worried should we be about the increase in the amount of debt incurred by Australia’s federal and state governments since the onset of Covid-19?  Is it important that public debt be “paid off” at some point in the future? What criteria should we use to judge whether any given level of public debt is “sustainable”? If the level of public debt is, or were to become “unsustainable”, what could or should be done?


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