Karl Marx could see Australia is going to bust

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You have to be careful about who listen to when it comes to the economy. Commentators are hopeless. The economists that they rely on are worse. Markets can be better but are also quite fallible. Right now all three are deluded about Australia’s prospects. From Miranda Maxwell:

There is general agreement that Australia’s economy is slowly but surely rebalancing.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia chairman David Turner said on Tuesday management was optimistic about the economic transition away from the mining investment boom, even though it was “bound to take some time” to move to non-mining led growth.

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About the author
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.