Roger joined Philip Clark on ABC Nightlife to discuss whether interest rates will succeed in staving off a recession and how much of an impact we can expect on house prices. Today, CPI inflation has risen to 6.1 per cent and underlying inflation is 4.9 per cent. These are the highest rates in many years. There is a real economic challenge coming for the newly minted federal government.

Are continual interest rate rises the right approach to curbing a national recession?
Listen to the podcast here: ABC Nightlife 13 September 2022

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Roger joined Philip Clark on ABC Nightlife to discuss recession and inflation. With the costs rising for food, petrol and energy along with interest rates also going up, is the economy about to enter a recession? With the lowest level of unemployment in known memory, are you wondering how can a downturn be imminent? Listen here. 

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Roger joined Philip Clark on ABC Nightlife to discuss whether an economic recession is on the cards. We can say that the COVID crisis created a once-in-a-generation economic crisis, which justified constant use of vast money printing and borrowing to get through it, but in truth we’ve had three major economic upsets in the space of 13 years. There’s no guarantee that we will fall into recession, coming out of the pandemic, but there’s certainly no guarantee we won’t either.  Listen here.

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Roger joined Philip Clark on ABC Nightlife to discuss what US interest rate rises will mean for Australia, given inflation is well above comfortable levels and how the war between Russia and Ukraine is impacting markets and investors. Listen here. 

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Roger joined Philip Clark on ABC Nightlife to discuss why the market could be ripe for growth with many stocks undervalued after a dramatic monetary policy shift. Knowing how to invest in stocks is a smart move in 2022 considering how strong the stock market was in 2021. Listen here.

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Roger joined Suzanne Hill on ABC Nightlife for the final episode of 2021 to discuss the challenges and highlights of the investing year, covering the impact of rising inflation and constrained supply chains and why the latest shortage of urea is something investors need to be aware of. Listen here.

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I joined Phil Clark on ABC Nightlife to discuss what the rise in inflation rates in the US mean for Australia. Inflation figures in the US are the highest they have been in 30 years, but in reality when you dissect what is going on with the inflation rate in the US and the rest of the world you realise that the factors that have led to the spike are already turning down. Listen here.

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I joined Phil Clark on ABC Nightlife to discuss the slowdown in markets and share my take on the outlook for asset prices over the next few months with a slowing economic growth rate. So far 2021 has given investors plenty to be happy about. After the September slowdown, have the easy gains all been made? Listen here.

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The Australian market has had a fantastic start to the week with some big gains in blue chip banks, mining giants and Telstra. While share prices are climbing consumer confidence is doing the opposite, so what is driving the optimism in markets? Roger joins Phil Clark on ABC Nightlife to discuss. Listen here. 

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In this episode of ABC Nightlife Roger joined Philip Clark to discuss if the bullish conditions for equities will continue into 2022. If inflation fears and fears about interest rates going up take hold, it could cause markets to stall. Although Roger believes that long term we will be in a world of lower inflation and wage growth. Listen here.

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