Budget under more pressure as nominal GDP fades

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By Leith van Onselen

Stephen Anthony, principal of consulting group Macroeconomics, has today warned that the Federal Budget is facing more downgrades as growth in nominal GDP disappoints. From The Australian:

[Anthony] said “nominal” GDP, or the value of all the goods and services produced, was not rising as quickly as projected because of the fall in export commodity prices, a currency that was still too high and very weak wages growth.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.