Hartzer: Belt up for a services boom!

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From the Westpac CEO via Fairfax:

“There’s been a lot of talk recently about slower growth in the Australian economy. Some even suggest we might be heading for recession. We don’t see it that way,” Mr Hartzer said at a Trans-Tasman Business Circle lunch in Sydney.

“Interest rates are low, and the lower dollar is already having a positive effect on a number of industries like tourism, education, and retail,” he said.

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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.