Warning: Iron ore rate hikes!

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So say the OECD, via the AFR:

The Reserve Bank of Australia is being urged by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to prepare the nation for official interest rate increases in 2017 to avoid a housing market blowout.

Lamenting the Turnbull government’s failure to be more bold on tax reform – including by widening and raising the goods and services tax – the Paris-based rich-country think tank says there is a growing need to unwind house prices and other financial distortions caused by ultra-low official interest rates.

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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.