BURGERNOMICS PODCAST
Ross MacDowell and Australia's top experts demystify economic topics that affect your life....the price of steak,
house price affordability, do plumbers earn more than doctors, why petrol prices always go up on Thursdays, how renewable energy will increase your power bill, will hybrid working last, electric vehicles, can you trust cryptocurrency and blockchain, what is it? These terms affect your job, your income, your mortgage and your quality of life. It’s pretty hard to plan for our prosperity, if we don’t understand basic economic concepts we hear daily? Burgernomics is a podcast where I talk to Australia’s smartest experts, asking them to demystify the economic topics that are running our lives.. Each podcast ends with the Burgernomics Test, when our expert applies their explanation to a simple hamburger guaranteeing you come away with a better understanding.
Recent Episodes
55: Turbocharging The Price You Pay In 170 Secs
Burgernomics describes what happens to the price of products & services when Dynamic Pricing and A.I. are combined.
54: Airline Tickets. Is everyone offered the same price?
Dynamic Ticket Pricing personalises the airline ticket price you are being quoted based on the trail of your personal information which can be data mined. It is a system which maximises revenue for the airline industry and is widely used overseas.
53: Good Or Evil Don't Win Wars. Only Economics Wins Wars.
Welcome to the latest episode of Burgernomics! Today, we delve into the harsh reality that economics, not notions of good or evil, often dictates the outcome of wars. Recent developments, including Vladimir Putin allocating a...
52: Ukraines Battlefield Economics. Tactics When Your Enemy Has More.
Ukraines Battlefield Economics. Tactics When Your Enemy Has More. Retired Major General Mick Ryan takes us for a journey through the battlefields of Ukraine, the tactics, planning and munitions supply status. The economic the...
51: A Fresh Angle. Beef Price Plunge. Supermarkets Profit. In 150 Sec…
Follow the beef money trail in 150 seconds. Beef producers doing it tough, supermarkets making huge beef profits, while cost of living increases smash their customers. Using basic economic principles to provide an insightful cut through of Australia's beef situation guaranteed to make you the insta…
50: Beef Drops 46%. But Not In Supermarkets. Why?
Beef prices paid to the farmer have dropped 46% in 15 months. However retail prices for beef have not dropped anywhere near 46%. Why hasn’t the beef price drop been passed through to retail prices? Angus Gidley-Baird Senior P...
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