When will rising household debt not bother Phil Lowe?

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Via Bill Evans at Westpac:

The RBA released the minutes of the Monetary Policy Meeting of the Reserve Bank Board for November and this was followed by Governor Lowe’s speech at the ABE annual dinner.

There were no major surprises in the minutes but the general tone seems somewhat more subdued than we have seen in recent reports. Further to that, the Q&A session following Governor Lowe’s speech later that day provided further insight into the RBA’s views on household leverage.

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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.