Will rocketing US interest rates crash Aussie housing?

Monday, 5 February 2018

Interest rates are going up by the end of this year, a survey of 26 of Australia’s leading economists predicts, with the average bet seeing the cash-rate at 1.7 per cent by December:

…Industry Super economist Stephen Anthony was among the minority to predict a further fall in interest rates.

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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.