Michael Thompson

I mean, the vibe is bad right now.

It's a bad vibe in the economy.

The now business confidence survey shows confidence remains firmly, firmly, firmly negative.

It cannot be more firm.

The handbrake has been well and truly applied to the Australian economy, whether it's through kind of interest rates or...

or the war, the cost of living, everything.

It's just everyone.

It's just miserable.

Rate cuts will be next, a little way away.

But honestly, we can all get distracted by space.

I know I do on occasion.

But remember who we're here for, Adam, and that is Australian consumers, those of us with business loans and home loans and all of this, and do the right thing and judge in my favor.

Well, this week the worm has turned this week on interest rates and the economy.

This week it all changed.

All right.

Moving on.

That makes sense.

Yep, 1-0.

So, look, I will agree to speed things up as long as Sean and I have the same time limit.

The one thing I hate more than anything, more than losing, is inequality.