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Glenn Stevens’ legacy shows how to maintain the independence of the Reserve Bank in crisis as well as the limits of monetary policy.
The US economy is improving off the back of jobs figures while in Australia, the government is being warned by the Reserve Bank to step up its game.
For the more modest aim of delivering steady, competent government – well, it’s no wonder Malcolm Turnbull is raging.
The challenges ahead for Australia include sustaining a stronger growth outlook.
Incoming Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe will face the challenges of rapid credit and asset prices growth.
Worse than expected business investment in both manufacturing and mining provides another nod towards secular stagnation.
RBA Governor Glenn Stevens isn’t buying the secular stagnation theory, lending weight to the deficit hawks.
Both the US and Australia face a global economy that is in deep, deep trouble.
Comments by RBA Governor Glenn Stevens that monetary policy in the form of lower interest rates may have reached its limits, needs to prompt debate on fiscal policy taking over.
Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens has left open the possibility of another rate cut, but warned against expecting monetary policy to do too much of the work in encouraging economic growth.
Last Tuesday the minutes of August’s Reserve Bank of Australia board meeting were released. Market participants speculated about what they would say, currency and bond markets responded to what they did…
Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens has ticked off on a major item on the “to do” list for Australian policy-makers: raise the rate of growth in labour productivity. In his keynote speech…
Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20 major economies will meet in Sydney this week. A lot of troubled financial waters have flowed under the bridge since this group last met…
Monetary policy must be forward looking. It has limited ability to affect the here and now of the economy, as this has largely already been determined - by employment decisions, investment decisions and…
I have a hunch that the RBA will follow its conventional “neoclassical” models and raise rates this afternoon, even though the economy is locked in “two speed” mode, and the global economy is racked by…
Late last month, Ben Bernanke held the first ever press conference by a chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank. For more than an hour, he took questions about the Federal Open Market Committee’s decision…
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