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Friday, November 09, 2007

Quick Quiz: What's wrong with this graph?


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Labels: election, Liberal Party, mortgage rates, reserve bank
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Peter reported economics for the ABC’s AM and PM programs for two decades before serving as economics editor of The Canberra Times, The Age and The Conversation. He hosts The Economy, Stupid on ABC Radio National.
For mine one of the best economic journalists in the country - Bernard Keane

The best economics correspondent - Ross Gittins

At least he is consistent, consistently wrong - Jamie Briggs

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