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We’re only just entering the corona economic rapids. Wait to we go over the waterfall

7 July 2020

5:00 AM

7 July 2020

5:00 AM

On October 3, 2008, I sat on the end of a bed in a Dubai hotel watching the once credible CNN announce the US bank bailout. Two days later I arrived back in Australia to our dollar in free fall and with the daunting prospect of finding a job. I was a newly minted lawyer and the only law jobs going were in corporate insolvency.

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