Twice a year most Australians are made to deliberately mess with our body clocks. When we go into daylight saving and when we come out.
Many of us love the longer summer evenings. What we don’t love is the sleep adjustment that makes us feel tired, fuzzy and out of sorts.
There are plenty of arguments about whether daylight saving is a good or bad thing.
So in this episode we look at the costs and benefits and whether it’s time to rethink the concept.
Guests:
Dr Thomas Sigler, Associate Professor, University of Queensland
Allison Schrager, Economist & Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute
Dr Yevgeny Mugerman, Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University
Dr Jayanta Sarkar, Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
RBA's decision, international banks and a manufacturing revival
Interest rates, university incentives and CPI comparisons
Bank contagion, submarines and jobs and the future of the workplace with AI
How to improve the future for young Australians and central bankers are talking
Re-thinking insurance and improving migration systems for all
A financial crisis in the aged care sector
Mariana Mazzucato on the Big Con and an economic view of the Russian invasion
Could the RBA be getting it right?
Medicare reform; the great inflation debate and the fuel tax credit scheme
Sustainable financial taxonomies and buy now, pay later regulation
International trade and China's growing loneliness economy
Beyond GDP: the health of a nation
The big business of online sports betting
Streaming Services both video and music
Economics and the environment
Sanctions and Oligarchs
Energy caps; Christmas spend and edible economics
Energy prices; affordable housing and The World Ahead report
Inflation, jobs, and tax and government
Wages; the IMF; and climate change and democracy
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