Yearly Archives: 2021
Housing affordability crisis with Brooke Corte
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Housing, News, Recent Media Interview, The Australian Economy | 14th September 2021Saul talks to 2GB‘s Money News‘ Brooke Corte about housing affordabilty crisis
Coronavirus Impact Chart Pack 2021-09-11
Chart Pack | 11th September 2021This week Saul Eslake’s weekly Coronavirus Impact Chart Pack is 166 pages: – 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; – multiple […]
This is a recession – we’re just not calling it one
Economic Policies, Publications, The Australian Economy | 9th September 2021Op-ed published in the Australian Financial Review of 9th August 2021 – arguing (1) that we are in a recession now, irrespective of whether we have two consecutive quarterly contractions in real GDP, and (2) that although it shares some of the ‘responsibility’ for this second recession, the federal government’s fiscal policy response to it […]
Papua New Guinea in the Post-Covid World Economy
Asian Economies, The Global Economy | 7th September 2021Presentation to the 2021 Papua New Guinea Investment Conference, 7th September 2021
Coronavirus Impact Chart Pack 2021-09-04
Chart Pack | 4th September 2021This week Saul Eslake’s weekly Coronavirus Impact Chart Pack is 164 pages: – 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; – multiple […]
Spoiler alert: we’re in a recession, even if it’s not ‘official’
Publications, The Australian Economy | 31st August 2021Jessica Irvine, senior economics columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age newspapers, discusses Saul’s views on the meaning of the term ‘recession’ and whether Australia is once again in one now
Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Tax and Revenue inquiry into Housing Affordability and Supply in Australia
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Housing | 31st August 2021My submission to a House of Representatives Committee inquiry into housing affordability and home ownership, which recapitulates things I’ve been writing and saying about housing affordability and home ownership for the best part of four decades – without ever having really made any difference to the housing policies which governments at all levels and of […]
Coronavirus Impact Chart Pack 2021-08-28
Chart Pack | 28th August 2021This week Saul Eslake’s weekly Coronavirus Impact Chart Pack is 167 pages: – 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; – multiple […]