Bill Mitchell | Billy blog

Macroeconomic research, teaching and advocacy
  1. Today, I am Perth giving a keynote presentation to the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) 2023 Congress. My talk is...
  2. Regular readers will know that I have spent quite a lot of time reading the literature in social psychology trying to understand how groups of...
  3. It’s Wednesday and so before we get to the music segment we have time to discuss a few issues. The first relates to the progress Britain is...
  4. Many central bank officials have been trying all sorts of conditioning narratives to convince us that their interest rate hikes have been justified....
  5. Episode 7 for my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. In this podcast, we discuss the dangers that arise when we...
  6. Yesterday we had the wages data. Today the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released of the latest labour force data (May 18, 2023) –...
  7. Today (May 17, 2023), the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Wage Price Index, Australia – for the March-quarter...
  8. In my 2015 book – Eurozone Dystopia: Groupthink and Denial on a Grand Scale (published May 2015) – I traced in considerable detail the...
  9. In Tuesday’s fiscal statement, the Australian government made a lot of noise about dealing with the climate emergency that the nation faces...
  10. Last night (May 9, 2023), the Australian government delivered the latest fiscal statement (aka ‘The Budget’), and, in doing so...