by Stephen Roberts | 27 Jan, 2015 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive roundup of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. In January international agencies such as the OECD and World Bank downgraded their 2015 global growth forecasts to 3.5% and 3.0% respectively, mostly because of continuing soft...
by Stephen Roberts | 12 Jan, 2015 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive round up of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. It is easy to become pessimistic about Australia’s economic prospects amid tumbling commodity prices, falling national income and deep cuts in planned spending on major resource...
by Stephen Roberts | 29 Sep, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive round up of the week, listen to Stephens’s full report here. Our monthly roundup of global and local economic data and events shows continuing improvement in the US economy, but patchy to soft economic readings in China and Europe. The...
by Stephen Roberts | 22 Sep, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive round up of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. Spending on new and existing housing has started to make a material contribution to Australian economic growth. In Q1 2014, the volume of spending on new and existing housing...
by Stephen Roberts | 25 Aug, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive round up of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. Our monthly roundup of global and local economic data and events shows diverging paths for the world’s two biggest economies with the US economic expansion gaining traction,...
