James Thompson

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6,026 appearances 19 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

James Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Chanticleer · Ugly choice between stagflation and recession, China's EV shock spreads & Bathla mess grows · 4 Sep 2026 podcast

Unfortunately, we're in this position where that's bad news because it says the economy is hitting its speed limit and voice-verified

As the economy grows too fast, even though it's not growing that much, I mean we're talking about two point one percent over the last year, even at that level, the economy's growing too fast and that's bringing on more inflationary pressures. voice-verified

Why? voice-verified

I don't know if you saw the productivity numbers, Anthony. voice-verified

Productivity went backwards in the last twelve months. voice-verified

We are literally working harder to produce less output on average. voice-verified

I mean, that's embarrassing. voice-verified

So I I think we we do end up for this period, the next little period, we're gonna have probably another rate rise. voice-verified

It's almost universally accepted. voice-verified

Maybe there'll be two. voice-verified

And so we have this period where we get low growth, because we have to have low growth, and we get quite high inflation and quite high interest rates. voice-verified

Now, does the RBA have to whack the economy so hard that we get recession? voice-verified

I hope not. voice-verified

Geez, I hope not. voice-verified

That would not be fun for anyone. voice-verified

And as I said before, we haven't seen a slowdown outside of the pandemic where the slowdown lasted for all of about fifteen minutes. voice-verified

We haven't seen a slowdown in Australia for decades. voice-verified

People are not used to that. voice-verified

But the RBA is pushing against two really big forces, maybe three. voice-verified

Government spending doesn't care about interest rates. voice-verified

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