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Vital Signs: if it looks like a bubble and sounds like a bubble...

  • 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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  1. National Science Statement does little to bring industry and researchers together
  2. Explainer: the financialisation of housing and what can be done about it
  3. It's harder for governments to tax their way out of rising inequality
  4. Australia finally has crowd-sourced equity funding, but there's more to do
  5. The latest ideas to use super to buy homes are still bad ideas
  6. Putting a dollar value on how much employees are willing to put their own interests first
  7. Value capture: a good idea to fund infrastructure but not easy in practice
  8. Women are dropping out of economics, which means men are running our economy
  9. Unpicking the labyrinth that is India's Adani
  10. Embracing the bots: how direct to consumer advertising is about to change forever
  11. Economics isn't ideology-free and it's misleading to suggest it is
  12. We shouldn't ignore the potential of virtual reality advertising
  13. Not everyone wins from the bank of mum and dad
  14. Business Briefing: how the attitudes of the next generation are changing the property market
  15. Explainer: how the Australian dollar affects the results of companies
  16. The future of online advertising is big data and algorithms
  17. How Facebook and Google changed the advertising game
  18. Companies should stick to the standards to avoid misleading investors
  19. Young workers expect their older colleagues to get out of the way
  20. ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, February 2017
  21. Unconscious bias is keeping women out of senior roles, but we can get around it
  22. Why women make the best stock traders
  23. Company results: how competition is transforming Australia's retail sector
  24. Tax laws are not keeping up with our globally mobile workforce: new research
  25. Four cultural clashes that are holding East Asian employees back
  26. Three reasons businesses are paying higher dividends rather than investing
  27. The government needs to better enforce the laws it creates, to protect franchise workers
  28. Catchphrase to cliché: how corporate-speak became common in our everyday lives
  29. We need to hear the stories of exploited unlawful migrant workers, not just deport them
  30. Despite superannuation changes, one tax loophole remains
  31. Lack of workers with 'soft skills' demands a shift in teaching
  32. How racism and a lack of diversity can harm productivity in our workplaces
  33. How to manage self-motivated, intelligent workers
  34. Business investment is weak, but an unfunded company tax cut won't fix it
  35. Here's what must be done to detect, disrupt and deter phoenix activity in Australia
  36. Vital Signs: there's never been a tougher time to be a central banker
  37. In the rooms of power and ordinary people, Bligh's banking appointment is a masterstroke
  38. Push for longer hours makes headlines, but more Australians want to work less
  39. Business students willing to sacrifice future salary for good corporate social responsibility: study
  40. Why algorithms won't necessarily lead to utopian workplaces
  41. WestConnex audit offers another $17b lesson in how not to fund infrastructure
  42. Explainer: trickle-down economics
  43. Why small business tax cuts aren't likely to boost 'jobs and growth'
  44. Australia needs to reboot affordable housing funding, not scrap it
  45. Work councils could be the future of Australian industrial democracy in an ABCC world
  46. Vital Signs: business confidence spikes but uncertainty reigns
  47. Rental insecurity: why fixed long-term leases aren't the answer
  48. After all the talk, what is the Turnbull government actually doing for small business?
  49. Regulations needed for litigation funders who can't pay out when cases fail
  50. Young women can budget in the short term but struggle with long-term investments: survey