Is Jess Irvine really stupid or really smart?

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Here’s Jess Irvine today:

No less than three former senior Reserve Bank officials have in the past month penned thought pieces countenancing the need – at some point – for higher rates to stave off debt risks.

In a piece for Ellerston Capital, where he has taken on an adviser role, in addition to his new role on the Macquarie Bank board, immediate past Reserve governor Glenn Stevens recently posed the question: “Are we there yet?”

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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.