Finance & Fury Podcast

How do exchange rates, oil prices and fiscal deficits affect our lives within the economy?

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Sinopsis

Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition. This week’s question continuing on the from Raj in last two weeks episodes – interesting topic on how factors affect the real economy – which is us – so this episode will to continue on a similar line –will focus on the remaining factors that can affect the real economy - fiscal deficits more and then the real inputs to the economy, like forex, oil prices and trade imbalances All previous factors – like interest rates can affect our lives and hence affects the real economy – influencing the decisions we make – similar – the yield curve – whilst not directly affecting our lives - can indirectly affect it by decisions that banks make – such as what interest rates to charge or pay on fixed rate loans or term deposits respectively   Before we go on – important to remember that the real economy is the combination of our economic interactions – so it is almost impossible to forecast the degree to which one factor is affected by the other – but you can g