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Nice pickup from Dan Ziffer from the CBA update:
— Dan Ziffer (@danziffer) May 12, 2020
On those numbers CBA would only need $8bn in capital to replenish that which was lost.
I find that very hard to believe. It is probably derived from one of the usual garbage-in, garbage-out models.
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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.