An Economist’s Guide to the World Post-Covid

Central banks walk a thin line in setting policy rates

Posted by Ben May on Mar 18, 2022 2:30:00 PM

While the initial fears were that the pandemic might lead to economic scarring in the form of permanently lower activity, the biggest scars for now...

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Australia’s cyclical factors drive construction cost growth

Posted by Thomas Creevey on Jul 28, 2021 3:00:00 PM

Although the structural drags on inflation in commodity prices will remain post-COVID, short-term cyclical factors have risen sharply in recent...

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Does a greener economy mean longer-lasting inflation? Not necessarily.

Posted by Stephen Foreman on Jul 1, 2021 3:30:00 PM

Commodity price surges were associated with spikes in inflation in the 1970s, but have not been so in recent decades. During the period before the...

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Regime change: should we get used to high inflation?

Posted by Innes McFee on Jun 28, 2021 3:00:00 PM

Inflation has become the all-consuming focus of investors’ attention in recent weeks. On the surface the story is simple—transitory factors...

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Are we all Keynesians now? Is there much choice?

Posted by Innes McFee on Jan 20, 2021 1:30:00 PM

Over the past thirty years Richard Nixon’s famous comment “we are all Keynesians now” could hardly have rung more hollow. Since the introduction of...

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