Of course the RBA should cut

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Amid the inane babble of RBA commentary these days, one voice that stands out with a more reasoned approach is Professor Richard Holden, at the AFR today:

And while there are reasonable arguments about the effectiveness of, and side-effects from, further cuts, there is really no doubt that the RBA should cut rates on Tuesday.

…More needs to be done to get [inflation] back into the target range, and to help drive wages growth…Unemployment is too high at 5.1 per cent…

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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.