Twiggy sets the cartel among the pigeons

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It’s a slow new day but today the short term nature of Australian economic thinking is abundantly on display after Twiggy Forrest’s iron ore cartel call yesterday. FMG defended the comments, from the ABC:

Fortescue issued a statement saying there were provisions in the Competition and Consumer Act which made the comments OK.

“Provisions … which deals with goods exclusively exported,” the statement said.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.