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A key determinant of the severity of the recession in the global economy and in Australia will be the extent to which households in the US and Australia boost their level of savings in order to cut their debt levels. Some are claiming that we are about to see a massive cut in household debt…

Welcome to the first Oliver’s Insights for 2009. It is obvious the global economic situation is bleak. The key problem last year was the financial crisis. Given ongoing global bank problems this is clearly still with us, but this year the key problem will be the economic fall out. This note looks at the policy…

Earlier this year inflation was a big worry, now with inflation fading rapidly around the world there is more and more talk of deflation. This note looks at the key issues surrounding deflation, viz: what is it? why it could be a problem? what is driving it? what does it mean for investors? and how…

The reality of a global recession became further entrenched in November. Financial market volatility persisted and some of the world’s major economies reported successive quarters of negative growth. Consequently, the IMF revised its world growth estimates down. The US economy contracted in the September quarter with real gross domestic product (GDP) declining 0.1%. US housing…