Treasury to add Morrison’s head to its trophy wall

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It appears Treasury is the process of slaying another gormless Treasurer, via The Australian:

Scott Morrison will today launch a strident defence of the government’s fiscal strategy, warning that an earlier than planned return­ to budget surplus risks dampening an economy that is gathering momentum for the first time in ­almost a decade.

The Treasurer will tell the Melbourne Institute/The Australian Economic and Social Outlook Conference that the turnaround in economic momentum is evident in published financial data and in the increasing optimism about the outlook from the ­Reserve Bank and the Inter­national Monetary Fund.

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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.