Joye claims victory over RBA in house price surge

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From Chris Joye today:

This week the RBA was forced into another about-face on housing conditions, which it has failed to forecast since its aggressive rate cutting program commenced in earnest in 2012.

In announcing no change to the cash rate on Tuesday, the new governor Philip Lowe excised a crucial line from his predecessor’s August assertion that “the likelihood of lower interest rates exacerbating risks in the housing market has diminished”. What a joke.

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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.