Australia's biggest economic threat isn't home-grown. It's a recession, originating in the United States - The Conversation Australia & New Zealand

New treasurer Jim Chalmers was part of Australia’s successful effort to avoid the last US-led “great recession” in 2008. He may need to draw on those lessons sooner than we’d like.

A recession in the US usually brings on a recession in the rest of the world, although not always in Australia. Australia has escaped such a re recession twice in the past 50 years. We avoided the… [+5005 chars]

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