Lunatic RBA restores Australian dollar carry trade

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Just in time for disaster:

Yes, folks, here we are at the great Australian calamity and the sleeping RBA just restored a positive carry into the Australian dollar.

It has no interest rate curve left to stimulate credit. All it has now is the currency and it is busy doing nothing to ensure that it rises into disaster, exacerbating a viral deflationary shock unseen in a century.

The RBA must call an emergency meeting, cut the last 25bps and tell us what kind of QE it is going to do.

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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.