We put a bear in the window and waited for the Great Depression

"What did the Reserve Bank know and when did he know it?" and other questions raised by neoliberal zealots

Remember the surreal days of late March 2020? Here’s a little memory spur.

It had its benign dimension — the teddy bears in windows and press-up challenges and 1.00pm briefings, it also had the darkest uncertainty and unease.

Do you remember the grim forecasts from the bank economists? Some of those unemployment projections were gulp-making:  6%; 8%; 12%…