Joye: RBA ready to launch giant QE (nothing burger)

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Via our Chris today:

Another week passes and yet another bank has upgraded its housing outlook in line with our heterodox March forecast for a zero to 5 per cent decline in the six months after the COVID-19 shock followed by 10 per cent to 20 per cent capital gains.

Last week CBA sensationally dumped its call for 10 per cent peak-to-trough declines in favour of a 6 per cent drop which it says will be superseded by healthy capital gains running at a 6 per cent annual pace in the second half of 2021.

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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.