S&P hoses Budget, tax cut hopes

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S&P won’t leave Crapstralaia alone:

The committee agreed that fiscal performance and flexibility had improved. All other key rating factors were unchanged. We are affirming our ‘AAA’ long-term and ‘A-1+’ short-term sovereign credit ratings on Australia.

The sovereign credit ratings on Australia benefit from the country’s strong institutional settings, its wealthy and resilient economy, monetary policy flexibility, and low government debt.

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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.