People are, it seems, getting very angry about everything. Oxfam, for example, is now struggling to find the money to help Rohingya refugees because of outrage over workers enlisting prostitutes in Haiti. Tommy Robinson is winning widespread support in his anti-Muslim crusade. His supporters were out on the streets last week giving Nazi salutes. Two years since Jo Cox was murdered and the alt-right seems to be going from strength to strength.
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Husic v Turnbull: The Pre-election Broadband Debate
Malcolm Turnbull head to head with Labor’s Ed Husic on the grand vision of the NBN, and how to deliver it.
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The practicality of a job guarantee
Would a job guarantee resolve the battle between inflation and unemployment? Conventional economists argue that when the labour market is tight – and there are few jobs to go around – people ask for more money and that creates inflation. When there are very few jobs – like now – inflation is much lower. The counter argument, from Modern Monetary Theorists, is that a job guarantee would reduce this flux, whilst improving the lifestyles and wellbeing of the population. This week Phil Dobbie asks Steve Keen whether the MMT have got the logic right and, even if they have, can it be practically applied?
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Where does it end?
Yields pushing higher on both sides of the Atlantic – because of inflation in the US, unfunded debt in the UK. NAB’s Rodrigo Catril says the uncertainty is giving the Aussie dollar a trouncing, compounded by the slower path of hikes by the RBA.
