Will strong GDP boost Turnbull or Shorten?

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From Laura Tingle today:

Rather than trumpeting the number as a sign of their success as economic managers, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Treasurer Scott Morrison spent an inordinate amount of time on Wednesday warning voters that growth was very fragile and could easily be threatened by the dangers of a Labor government.

“So far, so good,” the Prime Minister said.” But there is plenty of risk out there on the horizon.

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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.