Justin Pyvis
Justin holds a PhD in economics and has 20+ years of policy and investment experience across Australia, NZ, and Hong Kong. These days he’s often found walking cities (jwalk.ing, trying to understand how they work.
Friday Fodder (22/24)
Assessing Australia’s March quarter GDP figures; why productivity is still everything; how opinion polls can be dangerous; and where are all the Korean babies?
The upside of falling EV prices
Lower electric vehicle prices are the result of healthy market competition, not a bubble bursting.
The dangers of neopopulism
Whether it’s being sold under the banner of a “New Paradigm”, “new centrism”, “neopopulism”, or a “Future Made in Australia”, industrial policy will lead to less growth, insipid labour productivity, and a much poorer and more vulnerable Australia.
Friday Fodder (21/24)
Why we shouldn’t worry about migration; interpreting the monthly inflation figures; will AI displace financial market traders; should we worry about the ‘pink tax’; and Albo’s gift, on our behalves, to PNG’s elites.