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A non traditional view of the 2022 Australian Federal Government Budget. Burgernomics host Ross MacDowell explains the different types of budgets, their accuracy in predicting government income & expenditure and their effect on our economy.

Cherelle Murphy Chief Economist Oceania EY and Burgernomics host Ross MacDowell discuss Your Monthly Budget. Is Inflation About To Make It Explode? Every economists nightmare is the 1930’s black & white photo of German women stuffing her stove with banknotes to boil the kettle. Inflation had made her banknotes worthless.…

Professor Of Economics at The University Of Melbourne, Jeff Borland, discusses the role of economists in labour markets.

Plumbers incomes have quickly converged toward that of general practitioners, yet it’s a lot easier and less expensive to become a plumber than a doctor. How have Australia’s labour markets rapidly increased incomes of plumbers, who stop our tap dripping, compared to doctors, who prolong our life? Burgernomics host, Ross…

Australia has one of the worlds slowest take ups of electric vehicles. Independent electric vehicle expert, Bryce Gaton discusses with Burgernomics host Ross MacDowell the consumer, manufacturer and government issues causing the slow electric vehicle adoption in Australia. Bryce targets E.V. myths, explains ownership costs, driving range issues and when…

Q.E. or Quantitative Easing. You’ve heard the term hundreds of times before. Ask anybody to explain it and they look at you blankly. In this episode of Burgernomics we explain how Q.E. is keeping your mortgage payments low, increasing the value of your home, making you feel wealthy, or if…

Part 1. Brendan Coates, Economic Policy Program Director of the Grattan Institute joins Burgernomics host Ross MacDowell to discuss why Australia is experiencing a housing price boom. Topics discussed are the effects of interest rates, bank lending policies, the Reserve Banks $4bn per week Quantitative Easing program, local government’s restrictive…

Part 2. Brendan Coates, Economic Policy Program Director of the Grattan Institute and Burgernomics host Ross MacDowell discuss the history of Australian housing booms and their subsequent busts. After a bust what is negative home equity, how do the banks react to mortgagees with negative equity - do they make…

In Part 2 Prof. Jason Potts and Ross MacDowell talk about mining cryptocurrency and how the mining process creates security for the currency giving it value through scarcity. As Bitcoins are finite, when will the last Bitcoin be mined? Will cryptocurrencies eventually replace government 'fiat' currency or do we need…

Part 3. Professor Potts and Ross MacDowell explain the difference between a stable coins and crypto currency. Why every Australian will be using crypto currencies alongside our current government currency sooner than they think - or potentially already are without even realising it! Crypto causes transaction fees to plummet and…

In this 3 part series, Australia's leading expert on blockchain and crypto currency, Distinguished Professor Jason Potts, Co Director of RMITs Innovation Hub, together with Ross MacDowell demystify blockchain and cryptocurrencies. In Part 1 we discuss our natural human hesitancy and negativity towards new 'tech' concepts we don't understand, comparing…

Foot & Mouth Disease. Is it Australian agricultures $80 bn armageddon? Richard Norton, a beef producer and ex-CEO of Meat & Livestock Australia is one of Australia's best positioned experts to discuss the reality versus the hysteria. Many describe a situation where all $30 bn plus meat export markets are…

Tony Wood, Energy Program Director at the Grattan Institute demystifies Net Zero Carbon with Burgernomics host Ross MacDowell. Straightforward explanations, highlighting the problems and defining responsibilities. This is a fascinating conversation. Climate experts believe 6 bn tonnes of carbon dioxide needs to be removed from the atmosphere by 2050 if…

Want to know more? Please listen to the full podcast, Carbon Net Zero with Tony Wood, Energy Program Director at the Grattan Institute and Burgernomics host Ross MacDowell.

Foot & Mouth Disease is widespread in Bali, on Australia's door step. Tourists can unwittingly bring FMD back into Australia. Why not close the border with Bali? What are the economic ramifications if Australia gets one case. Will our meat export market evaporate overnight? Will our livestock industry crash? Full…

Electric Vehicles in 55 seconds with Burgernomics host Ross MacDowell. A 55 second 'cheat note' great for dinner party conversation, impressing your boss...or anyone else! There are a lot of myths, controversy and opinions surrounding electric vehicles. At this stage most can be disregarded because of one simple fact which…

Bryce Gaton, independent electric vehicle expert explains why economists are not the heroes in the electric vehicle story.

Interest Rates. A 150 second 'cheat note' great for dinner party conversation, impressing your boss...or impressing your employees. Interest rates are going up, up, up. Can they be predicted? Many say the bond markets are the clairvoyants of interest rates. How accurate are bond yields in predicting interest rates? For…

Alan Oster. Chief Economist. National Australia Bank

Professor David Byrne. University Of Melbourne