Westpac sings from MB’s bearish Australia hymn sheet

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Nice video here of Westpac’s Justin Smirk on the outlook for China, iron ore and the Australian dollar:

Absolutely right. Westpac’s AUD fair value is already stretched and getting stretcheder:


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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.