Dr Rainbow: Rates gunna rise inflation or not

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Via Bloomie comes Dr Rainbow:

“If growth continues to pick up, then I think they’ll raise rates long before inflation returns to target,” said John Edwards, a non-resident fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy and former RBA board member.

“My view is influenced by what Phil Lowe’s been saying for many, many months on the perils to financial stability from very, very low interest rates. That was originally an argument for not lowering them any further. But it’s also an argument, as the economy picks up strength, for increasing them.”

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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.