Jessica Irvine is the economics writer for The Sydney Morning Herald. Her columns have also appeared in The Age, The West Australian and The Brisbane Times. From 2006 to 2008 she was the Herald's economics correspondent in the federal press gallery in Canberra. She has an honours degree in Economics (Social Sciences) from the University of Sydney, and lives in Sydney - but has plans to migrate if banana prices ever reach $15 a kilo again.