There are 4 economic wildcards between now and election day. The first gets played this week
- Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

There are four economic wildcards between now and the election, and we know exactly when each will be played.
The first is this Wednesday at 11.30am eastern time, when we get the official update on inflation. We’re likely to see a figure so large it will take many of us back to the 1990s, to a time before anyone under 30 was born....