No more rainbows for RBA

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Via WSJ comes the RBA’s Ian Harper:

We’re on target, but to be blunt there is also plenty of evidence that you wouldn’t want to rush this (raising rates).”

“There is still plenty of underemployment” and “it is not clear that inflation is rising”

“We are not calling the economy dead. Things are recovering nicely. But it’s a case of steady as she goes.”

Professor Harper said a lower dollar would be beneficial for the economy. “It would help us along our way,” he said.

Lordy, sense from the RBA!

About the author
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.