ScoMo sets course for double-dip recession

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Scott Morrison says on growth today:

“We need to lift our economic growth rate by more than one percentage point above trend to … catch back up to where we were before COVID-19 hit.”

“The restoration of growth is also critical to our public finances. We are looking at a record deficit this year and next, and not just because of record COVID-19 expenditures. Revenues have taken an equally large hit.

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About the author
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.