monetary policy – Page 2 – ricardian ambivalence

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

The slow pace of inflation in Q1 makes a very strong case for a 25 bps reduction of the RBA’s

The case for the RBA to cut their cash rate at their 7 May meeting has been beaten up by

The IMF today downgraded global growth 20bps to 3.3%yoy (lowest since GFC), and said that the risks are skewed to

The RBA made a subtle change to their concluding paragraph of their April post-meeting statement last week. Given that they

The RBA today set up for a rate cut on 7 May. After thirteen months in a row where they

The RBA board will discuss the disappointing Q4’18 GDP data for the first time at their 2 April board meeting.

I was a little thrilled when I saw a link to my blog from a Scott Sumner post on econlib

Today’s speech by RBA Gov Lowe said that they were puzzling about the concurrent GDP slowdown and strength in the

When thinking about Australia and the outlook for policy, I find it hard to get past the below chart. It

The RBA went back to an explicitly neutral bias at their Feb’19 policy window — via an interesting bit of

It’s been ages since I blogged here — partly because the issues facing the Australian Economy haven’t changed much over