Interest Rate and Inflation – Where to now?
Economic Policies, News, Recent Media Interview, The Australian Economy | 8th June 2024
Podcast of a wide-ranging discussion about inflation, interest rates and other economic topics with Ben Law, the “Financial Bloke” and host of The Agri Coach “Wealth and Wisdom podcast”. This discussion was published on 8th June but recorded on 11th April – so it predates the most recent Federal Budget, the latest unemployment figures from Australia and the US (both of which now have a 4 handle on them, and the interest rate cuts from the Bank of Canada and the European Central Bank in the first week of June.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT
Speaking Engagement | Boardroom Advisory | Commissioned Report | Expert Witness
Saul Eslake spoke to Zurich Australia executives and staff at their ‘Accelerate’ conference in Sydney on 9th May 2024, covering short- and longer-term trends in major ‘advanced’ economies, China, India and Australia, with a bit of geo-politics thrown in.
“You are the best economic thinker in the country hands down”
Sheryle Bagwell, recently retired Senior Business Correspondent (and sometime Executive Producer),
ABC Radio National Breakfast
“Just want to congratulate you Saul on the unbelievably good set of slides you just presented, possibly the best I have ever seen. You have set the bar very high.”
Dr Joe Flood, Adjunct Fellow, RMIT University, Pandemicia
“Thank you very much for your excellent presentation for the Economic Society today. It is always a great pleasure to hear your eloquent, up-to-date and comprehensive talks.”
Andrew Trembath, economist, Victorian and Australian Government agencies
WHAT'S NEW
Most Recent Articles, Talks and Presentations
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News, Recent Media Interview, The Australian Economy
12th March 2025
Tasmania’s Debt Dilemma
Economic Policies, Tasmania
12th March 2025
The real meaning of last November’s US elections is becoming clearer – the American people voted for this
Australian Society and Politics, News, Security, The Australian Economy, The Global Economy
9th March 2025
Werribee voters send messages to both major Victorian political parties
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News
9th March 2025
Review of the case for privatization of Tasmanian Government business enterprises
Economic Policies, News, Recent Media Interview, Tasmania
6th March 2025
Victoria’s economy and public finances
Australian Society and Politics, The Australian Economy
5th March 2025
China Live-fire in the Tasman Sea
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Video, Tasmania
2nd March 2025
NEWS
TV, Radio & Print Media
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News, Recent Media Interview, The Australian Economy | 12th March 2025
The real meaning of last November’s US elections is becoming clearer – the American people voted for this
Australian Society and Politics, News, Security, The Australian Economy, The Global Economy | 9th March 2025
Werribee voters send messages to both major Victorian political parties
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News | 9th March 2025
Review of the case for privatization of Tasmanian Government business enterprises
Economic Policies, News, Recent Media Interview, Tasmania | 6th March 2025
Tasmania’s Public Finances
& the Independent Review of Tasmania’s State Finances (Aug, 2024)
News, Recent Media Interview, Tasmania | 14th February 2025
How Victoria became one of Australia’s ‘poor states’
Economic Policies, News, Publications, The Australian Economy | 25th November 2024
Negative Gearing
Economic Policies, Housing, News, Recent Media Interview, Taxation | 26th September 2024
Tasmania’s State Budget 2024 – 2025 with Leon Compton
News, Recent Media Interview, Tasmania | 13th September 2024
TESTIMONIALS
What Others Say
Australian Minister for Housing, the Hon. Clare O'Neill MP on ABC Q&A, September 2024
“We are lucky as a State to have an economist of your calibre willing to readily make yourself available to give us a clea r perception of where we are at and the direction we need to go for a better future”
Diplomatic Representative, August 2024
“You are one of the best at what you do in the world”
Gail Fosler, Chief Economist, The Conference Board, New York, December 2002
“I have never known an economist to have such a knowledge of world economic facts and to be able to bring to bear so much information in answering a question without notice”
Charles Goode, Chairman, ANZ Bank, July 2009
“Saul Eslake is … a highly regarded independent economist with the highest degree of integrity"
John Durie, Columnist, The Australian, July 2009
“… one of the few people in this world who can have so many oranges up in the air at the same time but still manage to catch them"
Andrew Clark, journalist, Australian Financial Review, November 2008
PUBLICATIONS
Here you can find articles or essays which I have written and which have been published elsewhere
Economic Policies, News, Publications, The Australian Economy | 25th November 2024
A new dawn over stormy seas
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Publications, The Australian Economy | 23rd May 2022
Who are the ‘better managers’ of Australia’s economy?
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Publications, The Australian Economy | 21st April 2022
The costs and consequences of ‘small business fetishism’
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Publications, Taxation, The Australian Economy | 10th December 2021
A chat with Alan Kohler
Economic Video, Publications | 19th October 2021
LINKS
Useful Links
Below is a list of links I’ve found useful under the following broad topics
- Data and policy
- Australian economic data
- Australian economic policy makers
- Overseas and international economic statistics
- Economic journalists, economists and academics
- Australian economic journalists
- Australian economists and academics
- Overseas economists, journalists and academics