KPMG: Australia can weather six rate hikes no worries

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Here’s some bullhawk droppings:

Predictions by one of Australia’s largest property developers that a 150 basis point rise in the broad-based mortgage market would effectively trigger a recession have been challenged by KPMG modelling that says such a rise would only shave part of GDP.

Frasers chief executive Rod Fehring said last week the sensitivity of interest rates would have the biggest impact on the housing construction market and therefore the economy.

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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.