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Tuesday, August 03, 2010

"The only figures that look good on the economy are the unemployment numbers - everything else is crap"

- Peter Switzer



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Peter is Business and Economy Editor at The Conversation and and a visiting fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. A former economics editor of The Age and economics correspondent for ABC radio, he co-hosts The Economists on ABC RN.
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