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CPI playbook

Today we have Australian Q2 CPI. My best guess is that Q2 headline CPI will be around 0.25%qoq, which will

The June employment report has nicely set up the RBA to cut rates at their August meeting, so long as

The BIS has just published a paper which traces the main path through which QE works to stimulate the economy.

The May gross flows data suggests an ossifying labour market: if you have a job, you are more likely to

In the comments, there are often comments to the effect that the labour under-utilisation rate is a better indicator of

The May labour market report was a little better than I had expected (and the market also): the unemployment rate

I could fairly be accused of a little recent pessimism about the outlook for the Australian economy. Today, I want to

The Australian reports that WA Premier Colin Barnett just called the end of the Iron Ore boom — fresh off

Following on from my casual survey of the relationship between various measures of demand and inflation, I thought it appropriate

With the drop in the AUD, assessing financial conditions is (again) becoming a hot topic. It’s a tough thing to

The post Q1 GDP recession debate has been both fun and informative (see my first and second posts, and Mark’s

Following last week’s Q1 National Accounts, I cheekily suggested that the domestic economy was in recession. Many of my peers