Is a dining boom replacing the mining boom?
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CommSec’s Craig James was at his boosterish best yesterday, declaring that a “dining boom” of agricultural exports was replacing the “mining boom”. From The Australian:
New figures suggest Australian exporters are enjoying the fruits of an Asian ‘dining boom’, replacing the nation’s income diet of a ‘mining boom’…
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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.
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