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Vital Signs: don't count your economic chickens before they hatch

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW

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.

This week: big news from the US Federal Reserve and the Reserve Bank of Australia

After their customary two-day...

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