Domain hankers for days of rate cuts past

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It’s RBA day and Domain is pining for times lost:

Increasing real interest rates and Victoria’s stage-four lockdown will force the Reserve Bank to re-examine policy settings and its forecasts for the national economy amid growing evidence the jobs market has deteriorated in the past fortnight.

The RBA board is expected to hold official interest rates at their record low of 0.25 per cent at its Tuesday meeting – the first since Victoria was forced to shut key parts of its economy and tight restrictions were imposed on its border with NSW.

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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.