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Vital Signs: time to shift the goalposts on investor lending again?

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
imageWith investor lending taking off again, the regulator could impose tighter constraints on bank lending.Image sourced from Shutterstock.com

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data...

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To resist Trump’s tyranny, just don’t comply

  • Written by: Shannon Brincat, Research Fellow in International Relations, Griffith University
imageJust say no! Tyranny depends on mass subservience.Alek S./flickr, CC BY-SA

This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative with the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing democracies in the 21st century.

After his unexpected election win, the immediate...

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Will the diplomatic aggravation and reputational damage to Turnbull and Australia have been worth it?

  • Written by: Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
imageAAP/Mick Tsikas

Let us turn to Shakespeare for guidance to describe the predicament in which Australia’s prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, finds himself in his interactions with a bullying American president, damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,

For loan oft loses both itself and friend,

And...

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