NAB hypocritical about business “hunger”

Advertisement
ScreenHunter_4736 Nov. 03 07.52

By Leith van Onselen

NAB chief, Andrew Thorburn, appeared on AFR Sunday yesterday, calling for Australian businesses to display more “hunger” and ambition to ­compete in the global economy. From The AFR:

“I do think that we need to be hungry. We need to be more entrepreneurial if we’re going to compete in the long term against the global economies, and that’s where it’s going, we need to get better than we are today”…

The full text of this article is available to MacroBusiness subscribers

$1 for your first month, then:
Cancel at any time through our billing provider, Stripe
About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.