Recessionberg shapes as worst treasurer of modern times

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We all know who runs the country, via the AFR:

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will instruct the corporate watchdog to tell banks to waive responsible lending standards for individuals who operate a small business, in a bid to ease the credit squeeze on the sector.

Following meetings over the past week with the chief executives of the big four banks, Mr Frydenberg said that although small businesses were exempt from responsible lending standards, many had been inadvertently caught in the tightening of those standards in the wake of the Hayne Royal Commission.

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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.