James Thompson
speaker
6,026 appearances
19 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
James Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 19 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 5.
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How are you, Anthony?
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The vigilante's had a bigger week than me, James.
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Very big week.
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We'll get into that.
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Well this week we take you inside the mysterious world of bond markets and explain what's got the world's most important investors grumpy.
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We ask why many of Australia's biggest companies don't actually seem that keen on investing in Australia, and we look at whether there's something a bit sick about your health insurance.
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Um sad to say for our listeners, probably not.
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Well look, nominal wages are going along at an okay clip, 3.2%.
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But you've got to remember that inflation's running a bit higher than that.
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So real wages, which are inflation-adjusted wages, they are rising at 0.17%.
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Now
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In a way, a relatively muted wage outcome is not too bad news for the RBA.
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They don't want to see wages chasing inflation higher.
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But Anthony, we know that there's more wage pressure coming in the September quarter because we had that minimum wage increase come through at the start of July.
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That was four point seven five percent.
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And the RBA estimates that that flows through to something like half the economy.
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So there's more wage pressure coming, right?
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So that is an issue for the RBA.
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They will take a little bit of comfort from the unemployment rate, which edged up from four point four.
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four percent to four point five percent.
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