Gottiboff: Bushfire boom imminent!

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Gottiboff is excited:

There is increasing evidence that Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe and his people are significant contributors to the increase in pessimism by so many Australians.

…Now bushfire relief and recovery has given the government a justifiable reason to spend that surplus and more. The big bushfire spending proposals of the federal government may now give the Reserve Bank an excuse to stop rate cutting without admitting error.

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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.