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Richard Denniss: 'Sovereign risk' econobabble has lost all meaning

By Richard Denniss
Updated April 24 2018 - 10:50pm, first published March 9 2018 - 3:58pm

The term 'sovereign risk' is the kind of econobabble bullshit that is destroying public debate, and indeed democracy, in Australia. Like the words competitiveness and productivity the phrase sovereign risk has been stripped of any real meaning and is simply used to dress up the self-interest of powerful groups as being in the national interest.

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