Mortgage lending choking-off business lending (members)

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By Leith van Onselen

Industry Super Australia has lodged a submission to the Murray financial system inquiry claiming that the banks’ bias towards housing lending is crowding-out lending to productive businesses, reflecting an unproductive use of capital. From The AFR:

The economy is being held back by banks favouring home loans over lending to productive businesses, industry super funds say…

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.