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Vital Signs: why the government still thinks it can 'grow away' the deficit

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