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Vital Signs: Australia heads into 2018 with mixed economic signals

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
imageIt's hard to get a fix on where Australia's economy is headed.Garry Knight/Flickr, CC BY

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

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