Sad old men condemn Aussies to shit economy

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For once in my life I agree with Australia’s rent-seeking CEOs, at the AFR:

Australia’s top chief executives say the federal government must intervene to stimulate the economy through infrastructure spending and tax cuts, and have lamented the nation’s failure to properly tackle climate change and to develop a strong innovation policy.

While the nation’s business chiefs have backed the Morrison government’s efforts to cut red tape, respondents to The Australian Financial Review’s annual Chanticleer CEO survey believe more must be done to lift business confidence, including the introduction of a business investment allowance.

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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.