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To get a clear picture of the cause of inflation, we need to accept a few inconvenient truths.
Thumbing through Crikey’s virtual pages, you could be forgiven for being confused about the cause of inflation. Maeve McGregor laid the blame for rocketing prices on cost-side pressures. Bernard Keane by contrast attributed inflation’s rise to nasty profiteering corporations increasing prices.
While McGregor and Keane are taking almost diametrically opposite views on the cause of inflation, both make little sense.
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Adam Schwab
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Adam Schwab is a former corporate lawyer, angel investor and the co-founder of Luxury Escapes, a Melbourne-based travel company. He has written for Crikey and SmartCompany since 2005, hosts the From Zero podcast, and is the author of Pigs at the Trough: Lessons from Australia’s Decade of Corporate Greed. He is a former board member of Private Media, the publisher of Crikey.
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To get a clear picture of the cause of inflation, we need to accept a few inconvenient truths.
Thumbing through Crikey’s virtual pages, you could be forgiven for being confused about the cause of inflation. Maeve McGregor laid the blame for rocketing prices on cost-side pressures. Bernard Keane by contrast attributed inflation’s rise to nasty profiteering corporations increasing prices.
While McGregor and Keane are taking almost diametrically opposite views on the cause of inflation, both make little sense.
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Adam Schwab
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Adam Schwab is a former corporate lawyer, angel investor and the co-founder of Luxury Escapes, a Melbourne-based travel company. He has written for Crikey and SmartCompany since 2005, hosts the From Zero podcast, and is the author of Pigs at the Trough: Lessons from Australia’s Decade of Corporate Greed. He is a former board member of Private Media, the publisher of Crikey.
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To get a clear picture of the cause of inflation, we need to accept a few inconvenient truths.
Thumbing through Crikey’s virtual pages, you could be forgiven for being confused about the cause of inflation. Maeve McGregor laid the blame for rocketing prices on cost-side pressures. Bernard Keane by contrast attributed inflation’s rise to nasty profiteering corporations increasing prices.
While McGregor and Keane are taking almost diametrically opposite views on the cause of inflation, both make little sense.
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About the Author
Adam Schwab
Columnist @lux_schwab
Adam Schwab is a former corporate lawyer, angel investor and the co-founder of Luxury Escapes, a Melbourne-based travel company. He has written for Crikey and SmartCompany since 2005, hosts the From Zero podcast, and is the author of Pigs at the Trough: Lessons from Australia’s Decade of Corporate Greed. He is a former board member of Private Media, the publisher of Crikey.
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To get a clear picture of the cause of inflation, we need to accept a few inconvenient truths.
Thumbing through Crikey’s virtual pages, you could be forgiven for being confused about the cause of inflation. Maeve McGregor laid the blame for rocketing prices on cost-side pressures. Bernard Keane by contrast attributed inflation’s rise to nasty profiteering corporations increasing prices.
While McGregor and Keane are taking almost diametrically opposite views on the cause of inflation, both make little sense.
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About the Author
Adam Schwab
Columnist @lux_schwab
Adam Schwab is a former corporate lawyer, angel investor and the co-founder of Luxury Escapes, a Melbourne-based travel company. He has written for Crikey and SmartCompany since 2005, hosts the From Zero podcast, and is the author of Pigs at the Trough: Lessons from Australia’s Decade of Corporate Greed. He is a former board member of Private Media, the publisher of Crikey.
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