In this MacroBusiness podcast, Gunnamatta, banking insider Deep T, and Leith van Onselen unpack the latest productivity summit, Australia’s broken economic model, Australia’s energy policy failures, and other issues.

Highlights:

0:00 Introduction

1:26 Why Australia’s productivity stinks

10:27 The economic Ponzi scheme

21:29 The economy is designed to fail

26:13 Australia should be the richest nation on earth

27:26 Australia’s energy failure

40:03 Australia should run current account surpluses

40:57 How to fix the budget deficit

47:17 Big Australia immigration is economically cancerous

50:52 Australian policy puts residents last

56:28 Why Queenslanders are angry about energy

1:04:30 Economists are part of the problem