CBA demands government fix confidence

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It’s still early in the bust but jeez it’s already getting perverse. From Dad’s Army:

The Commonwealth Bank has launched a fresh call for the federal government to develop a long-term plan to tackle the major economic threat posed by sagging confidence levels.

Australia’s biggest lender says volatility in the global economy, and in particular falling commodity prices, was undermining confidence levels among consumers and businesses.

There is no shortage of confidence, it is, alas, placed in completely the wrong things, such as mortgages.

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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.