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Vital Signs: scrape below the surface and the economy doesn't look so good

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW Australia
imageGDP numbers in Australia look good, but when one looks one level below, the picture isn't so good.Image sourced from shutterstock.com

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...

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