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Vital Signs: sluggish business investment shows caution is king

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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 impacting global economies.

This week: both the US and Australia show signs of economic sluggishness, with little upward pressure on interest...

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How do we choose a partner?

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imageThere’s nothing that everyone wants in a partner. But there are characteristics most men or women find attractive.Leo Hidalgo/Flickr, CC BY-NC

CHANGING FAMILIES: In this ten-part series, we examine some major changes in family and relationships, and how that might in turn reshape law, policy and our idea of ourselves.


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