Future Fund conducts last rites for Australian economy

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High appetite for risk has created a “speculative euphoria”, says former prime minister Paul Keating, who argues that markets are vulnerable to a correction that nobody is prepared for.

“No-one’s running for the door, and also right now, no-one knows where inflation is or when it might spring back. We’re in this twilight zone where asset prices are popping, the valves are popping on the engine, we know that.”

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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.