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Vital Signs: the case of the missing investment

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
imageThe Reserve Bank, under Governor Philip Lowe, this week kept the cash rate at 1.5%.AAP/Dean Lewins

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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