Who’s to blame for Australia’s property bubble?

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By Leith van Onselen

Some of you would have seen the RBA’s testimony on Friday to the biannual House of Representatives Economics Committee, in which the Bank denied being primarily responsible for inflating Australian housing values:

…the first two of those questions [from students] focused on how they might hope to buy into a housing market that has become very expensive.

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About the author
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.