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Vital Signs: living in the past won't distract from our current economic woes

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
imageAustralian Treasurer Scott Morrison likes to remind us of the economic achievements of the past.Paul Miller/AAP, CC BY-ND

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...

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