There we were watching Lateline, waiting for the rain to stop at Edgbaston so the cricket could begin, when David Murray, Chairman of Australia’s Future Fund, began making so much sense we could hardly write it down fast enough. And it wasn’t his comments about buying non-government guaranteed corporate debt that got us so excited.
July 31st, 2009 | Dan Denning | 18 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "import"
Australia Will be Affected By China’s Export Shrinkage
The major economic news released yesterday is at odds with the way the market behaved. We’re talking about the news from China that exports dropped 25.7% in February. Imports were down 24.1%. If China makes and the world takes, China is making less because the world is taking less. And of course, China takes from Australia to make for the rest of the world….
March 12th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
Terms of Trade Driving Runaway Australian Inflation
“Terms of trade” is one of those terms of the trade that gets throw around by economists all the time. But what does it mean? The simple definition is this: it’s the ratio between export prices to import prices. If you get more for what you sell and pay less for what you buy, your terms of trade improve. And guess what people? Thanks to this particular moment in history, Australia gets a lot more for what it sells and pays a lot less for what it buys (except for crude oil).
April 18th, 2008 | Dan Denning | 9 comments | Continued