The RBA is an intellectual coward

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Via Phil Lowe last night, who indicated at least one more rate cut is coming:

On behalf of the Reserve Bank Board, I would like to warmly welcome you to this community dinner. Thank you for joining us this evening. We value this opportunity to hear firsthand from you about the challenges and opportunities you face. I would also like to take advantage of the timing of this dinner to explain today’s decision on interest rates.

As you would have heard already, earlier today the Reserve Bank Board decided to lower the cash rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 1¼ per cent. This decision comes after more than 2½ years in which we have held the cash rate steady. The last change was back in August 2016.

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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.