The Reserve Bank should stick to its guns. Australia’s economy still needs all the support it can get.
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The government has done a good job so far, but it will have to direct future support to the Australians most likely to spend.
The most important change is a guarantee about the future, one the RBA can be held to.
A fully cashless society has often been presented as natural or inevitable. The experiences of Sweden and Zimbabwe highlight some pitfalls.
Guaranteeing that it will overshoot its target for some time is the best way of getting inflation up.
The Reserve Bank Australia has exhausted the limits of monetary policy, There’s no magic pudding, says governor Philip Lowe.
Almost all of the Reserve Bank’s new Term Funding Facility has ended up in the hands of big businesses. There’s a way to make sure small businesses get it.
We’re running out of interest rates to cut to keep the economy from sinking. Before the next recession occurs, we need to come with an effective approach to monetary policy.
The US Fed’s surprise rate cut might not achieve a lot. But it definitely sends a message the COVID-19 virus crisis is a really big deal.
Central banks are increasingly taking into account climate change in deciding how to invest.
The Reserve Bank of Australia says it’s prepared to ease monetary policy further if needed to stimulate the economy. But is the policy working when interests rates are so low?
Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the consequences of the controversial phone call between Morrison and Trump as revealed by the New York Times.
If needed, Governor Lowe will cut rates to near zero, and then effectivly cut them further.
After decades of research showing the link between union power and wages growth, government economists don’t want to talk about it.
With a relatively low debt to GDP ratio, Australia was never at risk of becoming Greece. But Germany, with negative interest rates and scant prospects for economic growth, is an open question.
The next set of instructions handed to the Reserve Bank will have to be realistic. That might mean a big change.
We’re facing a global economic problem that no one really understands or knows how to fix.
Under cover of a speech from the Reserve Bank governor, the Prudential Regulation Authority has moved to make it 10% easier to borrow.
Frydenberg and Morrison will have to switch from boasting about the economy to fixing it, quickly.
Interest rate cuts don’t work like they used to, and they help us put off the hard things we need to do to improve our lives.
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Senior Lecturer, Research School of Economics, and Research Associate, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Economics, Monash University
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John Hawkins is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Consultant corporate finance and economics, Monash University
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Professor of Institutional Economics, RMIT University
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Professor of Economics and Finance, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
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Economist and Director, Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute; Honorary Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Professor, Monash University
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Honorary Professor of Economics, UCL
