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Bitcoin, the property market and Trump: the fact and fiction behind doomsaying in 2018

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
Bitcoin, the property market and Trump: the fact and fiction behind doomsaying in 2018

If 2018 pans out like some of the early commentary suggests then we’re in for a rough year. If you believe the hype, then asset bubbles abound, global institutions are under attack, war on the Korean Peninsula is imminent, and the United States tax cuts might sink the Australian economy.

There is some truth to all of these concerns, but if...

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