PBO blows up Budget

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Via the PBO:

This fourth edition of the Parliamentary Budget Office’s (PBO’s) medium-term projections report shows that ongoing government spending restraint, combined with lower public debt interest payments, are driving an improving fiscal position…

The underlying cash balance is projected to improve over the next decade to a surplus of 1.6 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2029–30. This is projected to result in a significant reduction in government debt, with net debt projected to have peaked in 2018–19 and to then decline to 1.6 per cent of GDP by 2029–30.

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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.