September 13, 2026 — 5:00am
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Richard Yetsenga is the chief economist of the ANZ Bank. He refuses to be alarmist about the global economy, but he does sound one big alarm. I spoke to him this week.
Fitz: Richard, I know you as my friend, but much of the world knows you as the chief economist of ANZ. How did you get to this weird world, where you can not only make sense of the endless blizzard of numbers, but presumably enjoy doing so?
RY: Happenstance. I fell into a commerce degree in the late ’80s at Griffith University, that was just starting to make a name for itself in Brisbane, and halfway through the first year, through a process of elimination, figured economics was about the only thing I really wanted to major in. And look, I quite like the numbers side of economics, but I…
