Bullhawk despair as RBA mulls further rate cuts

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Via WSJ comes Ian Harper, the RBA’s chosen and much-improved jawboner:

“The thing that is causing an issue for us (the RBA board) is slow growth in wages, which is feeding into slow growth in household income,” Professor Harper said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “If you start to lose that momentum, that might be the basis of some sort of policy action,” he said.

“It is yet another indication that we are not out of the woods,” he added.

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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.