Lunatic RBA: Rates low forever now

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Perhaps it’s time to bet on inflation, via Domain:

Interest rates could remain low for “decades”, the Reserve Bank governor has signalled while warning Australians may be starting on a fresh binge of mortgage debt that could expose one of the nation’s biggest economic vulnerabilities.

Amid continuing signs the retail sector is struggling, Philip Lowe admitted there were already signs of a “cross-over” between Australians using last year’s interest rate cuts to get their finances in order and people borrowing more to get into the property market.Australia already paying economic price of climate change: RB

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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.