Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra
I have a PhD in political science and Masters degrees in Economics and Applied Finance. I have headed the economics division at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and been a senior economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank for International Settlements and Australian Treasury and secretary to the Senate Economics Committee.
Sam Bankman-Fried convicted for massive FTX fraud, in stark reminder of risks of crypto trading
Nov 04, 2023 03:41 am UTC| Law Digital Currency
It is not just crypto tokens that have spectacular downfalls. So can crypto personalities. Sam Bankman-Fried founded FTX, one of the worlds largest exchanges for so-called cryptocurrencies, which collapsed last year...
Oct 25, 2023 14:27 pm UTC| Economy
Todays figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show inflation fell in the September quarter for the third consecutive quarter. But petrol prices kept it uncomfortably high. After reaching a 30-year high of...
Fallen crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried was 'perfectly positioned to make a religion of himself'
Oct 24, 2023 09:25 am UTC| Business Digital Currency
A year ago, Sam Bankman-Fried (often called SBF) was on top of the world. He had been on the covers of Forbes, which dubbed him the richest twentysomething in the world, and Fortune the equivalent, for a business leader,...
As treasurer, Bill Hayden set Labor on the path to economic rationalism
Oct 24, 2023 09:21 am UTC| Economy Central Banks
Former Labor leader and governor-general Bill Hayden, whose death was announced on Saturday, is rightly being remembered for introducing Australias first universal healthcare scheme Medibank, which lives on today as...
Are NFTs really dead and buried? All signs point to 'yes'
Oct 02, 2023 06:23 am UTC| Technology
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are in dire straits. With the market in a severe downturn, its safe to assume the NFT bubble has well and truly burst. It was never clear why these digital collectables traded for such large...
Jul 27, 2023 08:46 am UTC| Economy
Australias inflation rate has fallen for the second consecutive quarter. After reaching a 30-year high of 7.8% at the end of 2022, annual inflation as measured by the Bureau of Statistics quarterly Consumer Price Index...
No, the budget does not make further interest rate rises more likely
May 11, 2023 15:50 pm UTC| Economy
Inflation, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said, is a tax on the poor. The great budget challenge for him and Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been to deliver help to Australians struggling with cost-of-living...
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