RBA holds; bring on Lowe-flation
Against my expectations, the RBA left their policy rate at 1.5% today. My main lesson from all this is that
Category: economics
Inflation and Monetary Policy — redux
My call that the RBA would cut rates in May was originally a little speculative — but following the Q1’19
Q1’19 CPI makes strong case for 7 May RBA cut
The slow pace of inflation in Q1 makes a very strong case for a 25 bps reduction of the RBA’s
Q1’19 CPI, the RBA and May
The case for the RBA to cut their cash rate at their 7 May meeting has been beaten up by
IMF downgrades, RBA to follow
The IMF today downgraded global growth 20bps to 3.3%yoy (lowest since GFC), and said that the risks are skewed to
What’s the State of the Economy?
The RBA made a subtle change to their concluding paragraph of their April post-meeting statement last week. Given that they
RBA sets up for May
The RBA today set up for a rate cut on 7 May. After thirteen months in a row where they
