With BI’s Greg McKenna, left, and David Bassanese of BetaShares, right. Everybody got the checked-shirt memo.Our guest this week on the Devils and Details podcast is David Bassanese, chief economist at the $2.5-billion-plus ETF management company BetaShares.
Bassanese is a former government economist who went on to be an interest rates strategist and later a closely-followed economic commentator. Business Insider’s contributing editor for economics and markets Greg McKenna also makes his first appearance on the show. The agenda:
- Are central banks now fighting the wrong war?
- Australia’s corporate earnings season
- The “casualisation” of Australia’s workforce through the creation of part-time jobs
- What’s happening on currency markets and why the Aussie dollar is still so high
- The data releases we follow to understand what’s happening in the economy
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