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Is Frydenberg’s post-Covid economic optimism justified?

21 December 2021

4:00 AM

21 December 2021

4:00 AM

Josh Frydenberg was pleased with last week’s midyear economic review issued by Treasury. He preened himself, opining that the Covid spendathon had kept the economy ticking over and that the future was a deluge of new jobs, higher incomes, and what he described as one of the world’s ‘strongest recoveries’.

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