Keeping a lid on costs doesn’t immediately translate into good times because it only looks at one side of the ledger – what about income?
The latest cost of living figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that across all household types, the rise in the cost of living remains desperately weak. While this by itself is good news, it underscores the complete lack of demand in the economy at the moment, which is in turn producing weak growth in household income.
Cost of living is a rather interesting economic bit of data which rarely agrees with people’s perceptions. For example, there is little doubt that electricity prices did fall when the carbon price was removed, and yet, as Lenore Taylor reports, 60% of people believe it had no impact on their electricity bills.
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Source: The Guardian Circular Economy RSS