Baird backs Stevens on bubble

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NSW Premier Mike Baird has urged policy makers to heed Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens, who has warned that parts of Sydney’s property market are “crazy”.

Mr Baird said the Reserve Bank spends a lot of time studying house prices, using a variety of metrics, which made the warning significant.

“We need to listen to the Reserve Bank Governor,” Mr Baird said, after his address at the Australian Financial Review‘s National Infrastructure Summit on Thursday. “The last thing that you want is a boom bust cycle.”

Bit late for that, old son. Get on with reforming the supply side.

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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.