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Aug 2022
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US faces second consecutive quarter of e...

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Roger Hearing is joined by ABC broadcaster Sinead Mangan in Australia and Forbes editor Steven Bertoni in the US. GDP in the US fell at an annualised rate of 0.6% in the three months from April to June, a welcome improvement on the government’s initial estimate of 0.9%. Canada’s federal government says it will not extend the annual bonus paid to bilingu ... Show More
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