Soc Gen: Australian mining bust transition “perfect”

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Via Business Insider today:

The French global investment bank says it expects Australian economic growth “to run at an above-potential rate for the next couple of years”, with a strong pipeline of residential housing activity a key driver of the growth.

Klaus Baader, Asia-Pacific chief economist for Soc Gen and an experienced Australia forecaster, has also described the management of economic transition following the mining boom as “close to perfect”, in a big tick of approval for the RBA and, to some extent, governments which allowed deficits to run up to cushion the blow as resources activity eased off.

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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.