Westpac: “Looking for explanation” for “bizarre” RBA

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Via Bill Evans:

There have been only minor changes in the Reserve Bank’s forecasts for growth, inflation, and unemployment in the May Statement on Monetary Policy.

Despite some bouts of schizophrenia over the last three months (growth in 2018 above 2017; growth above trend) the Bank has retained its growth forecasts of 3 ¼ per cent in the year to December 2018 and 3 ¼ per cent in the year to December 2019.

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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.