Stephen Koukoulas
speaker
2,355 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Sep
Stephen Koukoulas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's all one point something or 1.0.
I think a few of the more pessimistic people are out there.
So it's one of those ones where, yeah, we're all sort of
detecting the, as we said, the business confidence down, consumer sentiment down, and we're sort of seeing this inability to grow the economy without there being additional inflation pressures.
And that's the $64 question that
you know, the productivity roundtable in August last year and various attempts to repair or do things to the building codes to sort of fast track and to improve productivity in housing construction.
That's where they're meant to be working, but alas, they take a little bit of time to sort of filter through into the economy.
I just want to see more data.
While we can sort of scour the world for data, there's data somewhere around the world every day and night, we've got this sort of funny seasonal pattern from the Bureau of Statistics where they print a lot of their data in the last week and the first week of each calendar month, and these middle two weeks of a calendar month are very scarce or they've got...
Well, I won't say they're not unimportant numbers, but they're not economic numbers.
They could be to do with incarceration rates and these sorts of things, which are very important, don't get me wrong.
But in terms of economic data, we get this sort of drought every couple of weeks.
Two or three key releases every week, week in, week out.
Cram them in, delay a few, bring a few forward.
Come on, ABS.
I know you listen to this, David Gruen, the chief statistician.
So see if you can spread them out a little bit sort of throughout each calendar month.
Just do what you can.
growth is slowing.
I think that's the unanimous view, I think, from most of the economists, including our friends at the Reserve Bank and at Treasury, that the latest data we have is for the March quarter, 2026, economic growth 2.5%, but it's almost inevitable that growth is going to be tracking towards 1% to 1.5%.
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