Professor Frydengenius discovers wealth effect!

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We’re saved! Yes, it’s a scientific breakthrough up there with penicillin, at Domainfax:

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will be relying on record company profits to drive tax revenues as he faces his first set of national accounts a week after taking responsibility for the Australian economy.

Falling house prices, a sluggish retail sector, high levels of household debt, low levels of consumption and torpid wage growth will all hamper the government’s goal of bringing the budget back to surplus as Mr Frydenberg considers a mini-budget before the next election.

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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.