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3 weeks ago | 
profstevekeen.substack.com | Steve Keen |Phil Dobbie
Blil Gates has predicted that within 10 years we’ll be working a two-day week, thanks to advances in AI. He says it’ll mean a vast rethinking of the workplace. It’s not too dissimilar to Keynes’s prediction in the 1930s that wed al be working 15-hour weeks, with more time to enjoy the good things in life. Of course, Keynes was wrong.
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1 month ago | 
profstevekeen.substack.com | Steve Keen |Phil Dobbie
Economists seem conditioned to think that we need to suffer before an economy can get back on track. They argue an economy can’t grow if there is a large amount of accrued government debt. That the economy needs confidence to grow, and the confidence won’t exist the government owes a lot of money.
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2 months ago | 
profstevekeen.substack.com | Steve Keen |Phil Dobbie
Why is it, that whilst there are an increasing number of billionaires on the planet, the rest of us are no better than we were decades ago? Young people can’t get on the housing ladder, there’s an increasing waiting list for health services, schools are short of money and tertiary education, once free, leaves students with a lifetime of debt.
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2 months ago | 
profstevekeen.substack.com | Steve Keen |Phil Dobbie
The standard excuse for why states fail is the rampant printing of money. That certainly doesn’t help, but it’s often the symptom not the cause. In most cases states fail simply because the government isn’t in control. Take, for example, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, South Sudan.
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2 months ago | 
profstevekeen.substack.com | Steve Keen |Phil Dobbie
In 1944, at Bretton Woods, 44 countries agreed to make the US dollar the world's reserve currency. This decision inflated the dollar's value, making American exports expensive and imports cheaper. Donald Trump is now addressing this imbalance with tariffs on countries with high trade surpluses.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
player.fm | Phil Dobbie
Thursday 28th November 2024NAB Markets Research Disclaimer Financial Services Guide | Information on our services - NABA weaker dollar, falling share prices and very light trade. It’s close to the end of the month and Thanksgiving today in the US. NAB’s Ken Crompton returns rto the Morning Call to give is take on the market moves overnight on the back of largely unsurprising data from the US.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
player.fm | Phil Dobbie |Amit Varma |Renee Montgomery
Monday 30th September 2024NAB Markets Research Disclaimer Financial Services Guide | Information on our services - NABWhat impact will attacks in the Middle East have on markets now? Israel is working hard to neutralise Hezbollah and other Iranian proxy combatants, with attacks on Lebanon and Yemen. It’s the first question Phil put to NAB’s Tapas Strickland on this morning’s podcast.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
player.fm | Phil Dobbie
Friday 6th September 2024Please note this communication is not a research report and has not been prepared by NAB Research analysts. Read the full disclaimer here. China won’t achieve its 5% growth target this year. Yan Wang, Chief Emerging Markets & China Strategist at Alpine Macro, says the forward indicators show it won’t happen. So, what next for China? Yan says a shift in government policy is needed. Their focus has been on developing new, higher income sectors, such as EV manufacture.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
player.fm | Phil Dobbie |Amit Varma |Kara Goldin
Friday 12th July 2024NAB Markets Research Disclaimer Financial Services Guide | Information on our services - NABNAB has been looking at a variety of high frequency data sources to see how quickly workers are returning to the office. In this edition NAB’s Tapas Strickland says the trend seems to have stalled at 75% of pre-COVID levels. Credit analyst Evy Noble says this is also reflected in occupancy levels, although there is a large variation from one capital city to another.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
player.fm | Steve Keen |Phil Dobbie
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