AUD – Page 12 – ricardian ambivalence

Q1 CPI – not low enough for a May cut

With Q1’13 CPI much lower than anticapited the obvious question is if the RBA will respond by cutting rates in

[note this is the third in a series looking at the indicators for Q1’13 Australian CPI: we have also looked

Following on from the post on how re-distributive the Swan Treasury has been, I figured I’d take a look at

The comments section of the posts about Reinhart and Rogoff (1 and 2) have turned into something of a debate

With not all that much to talk about ahead of CPI, I’ve been spending some time playing with other data-sets

The RBA has an interesting article on GDP revisions in their most recent bulletin. This follows up on an awesome

The ABS yesterday released the first part of the quarterly labour force detail (this was the bit showing the characteristics

Around this time of each quarter, I keenly anticipate the release of the NZ CPI data. Over time, experience has

The Department of Finance has released two fresh months (Jan and Feb) of data since I last posted on the

The monthly labour market report has a way of making fools of people — but in the last two months

As is well known, the RBA’s easing bias is conditional upon inflation. For a few months now, the RBA has

The Australian Treasury is short of cash and looking for some more income. There is a fairly large amount of