Can Do-Nothing ScoMo do Keynesian stimulus?

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Via the AFR:

Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who spent the day bunkered in meetings and planning his new cabinet, shot down suggestions that he should adopt policy beyond what he took to the election, including in the energy sector.

This is despite calls from business and some in his own party to embrace a more meaningful energy policy, especially the National Energy Guarantee which this time last year was the Coalition’s policy.

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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.