
How to get out of the "liquidity trap"?
97 per cent of advanced economies have interest rates below 1 per cent On 5 November 2020, two days after the US election and as the...


Towards a new currency crisis in 2018? Similarities and differences with 1997
There is something with the ends of years finishing in -7 and -8 that make them particularly vulnerable to currency and financial crises....


Papua New Guinea: an economy in transformation
Papua New Guinea is currently experiencing a transition from a commodity-based economy heavily reliant on minerals and oil to a more...


Colombia: from peace to growth
Venezuela is so much in the headlines currently that one could have almost forgotten about its once rowdy neighbour, Colombia. It is good...


The Australian housing market: the question is not if but when it will crash
Since its settlement by Europeans, Australia has always drawn most of its wealth from its land, be it the natural resources of its...


The coming China corporate debt crisis and its effects on the Australian economy
Dr Sukudhew Singh, Bank Negara deputy governor, considered on the sidelines of the Financial Times Asia Banking Forum in June that...