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Vital signs: the GFC and me. Ten years on, what have we learned?

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
Vital signs: the GFC and me. Ten years on, what have we learned?Wayne Swan and Kevin Rudd spent big and spent bold, and it almost certainly kept us out of recession.

A little more than a decade on from the the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the largest bankruptcy in history, many of the world’s advanced economies are only now beginning to recover fully.

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