Capital Economics: No QE for Australia

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Via Capital Economics:

The experience from other central banks that have launched QE is that they only did so when the economy was in recession, inflation was negative or the unemployment rate well above its long-term average. None of those conditions are currently present in Australia.

…we expect the unemployment rate to…settle around its average over the last decade.

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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.