Lunatic RBA needs emergency 50bps interest rate cuts

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Oh yeh. From Damien Boey at Credit Suisse:

Our proprietary domestic demand tracker uses NAB survey capex intentions, along with consumer sentiment, housing sentiment, retail sales, credit, building approvals and the depth of the infrastructure spending pipeline. After updating for today’s data, the indicator remains in the doldrums, consistent with negligible growth in the non-mining economy.

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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.