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CPI playbook

Today we have Australian Q2 CPI. My best guess is that Q2 headline CPI will be around 0.25%qoq, which will

The June employment report has nicely set up the RBA to cut rates at their August meeting, so long as

The AFR’s star RBA watcher, Alan Mitchell says that the RBA doesn’t need to cut rates at their July meeting.

The May gross flows data suggests an ossifying labour market: if you have a job, you are more likely to

In the comments, there are often comments to the effect that the labour under-utilisation rate is a better indicator of

The May labour market report was a little better than I had expected (and the market also): the unemployment rate

I could fairly be accused of a little recent pessimism about the outlook for the Australian economy. Today, I want to

The Australian reports that WA Premier Colin Barnett just called the end of the Iron Ore boom — fresh off

Following on from my casual survey of the relationship between various measures of demand and inflation, I thought it appropriate

With the drop in the AUD, assessing financial conditions is (again) becoming a hot topic. It’s a tough thing to

The post Q1 GDP recession debate has been both fun and informative (see my first and second posts, and Mark’s

Following last week’s Q1 National Accounts, I cheekily suggested that the domestic economy was in recession. Many of my peers