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When Craig James is too bearish for you, Colin, you’re high

Thursday, 28 January 2016

From Nine:

Premier Colin Barnett refuses to be rattled after the CommSec State of the States report ranked Western Australia’s economy fifth in the nation.

The report, released on Wednesday, shows WA’s economy is only out-performing Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania.

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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.