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Flat White

The recession we have to have

19 March 2020

12:02 AM

19 March 2020

12:02 AM

Mark Twain said history doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes. That goes for a great many of history’s seeming reoccurrences, many of which give us that odd sense of feeling like we’ve been here before.   

In November 1990, the tall, dark, charismatic Zegna suit-wearing Paul Keating announced at a presser that Australia was in recession; the recession Australia had to have.

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