Pretend infrastructure boom booms!

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Australia’s pretend infrastructure boom to the moon! At the AFR:

“It looks like the boom is going to be a bit more protracted than we previously thought,” said Nigel Hatcher, director at Macromonitor, which specialises in economic forecasts for the construction industry.

Transport construction activity around Australia is expected to hit a record $42 billion in 2022-23, up from $30 billion in the 12 months to March 2019, according to Macromonitor.

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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.