Drumbeats grow for Australian QE

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Via Paul Dales at Capital Economics:

We suspect that history will be turned on its head over the next decade or so with Australia and New Zealand experiencing lower inflation rates than some of their peers. It follows that their exchange rates are likely to be weaker than otherwise and that their government bond yields may be lower.

The health of demand will continue to affect inflation, but whether inflation is much higher or much lower over the next decade will mostly depend on the influence of structural forces, such as globalisation and the independence and mandates of the central banks.

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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.