Labor to bail out Recessionberg with accelerated tax cuts

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Poor old Josh Recessionberg, he never expected to win and his cupboard is bare, via the AFR:

The federal government is prepared to expand its economic policy agenda beyond the measures it took to the election to boost Australia’s lagging productivity performance, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says.

…”We’re firmly sticking to all our election commitments and my priority is seeing through the growth agenda, as outlined in the budget, that’s critical for me,” he said.

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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.