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Vital Signs: five economic red flags to watch for in 2018

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
imageWe don't know for sure if any of these things could happen, but if they do we're in for a wild ride in 2018.Image sourced from shutterstock.com

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...

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