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Vital Signs: the data that won't help the government on housing supply

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

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: US GDP data points to a US rate rise in December, and Australia’s housing affordability problem...

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