Should Morrison be allowed to “judge” budget commodity prices?

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From the AFR:

As the nation’s most important commodity export – iron ore – traded above US$63 a tonne, official figures showed the terms of trade jumped around 4.5 per cent in the September quarter.

That was the biggest gain in five years and the first back-to-back quarterly increase since early 2011, confirming a growing sense that the economy will soon enjoy an export-driven trade wind that should eliminate the need for more Reserve Bank of Australia rate cuts.

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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.