Below find the latest installment from an uber-dovish Phi Lowe. The AUD rose a few pips though god only knows why. This is as dovish as he could possibly get: no inflation, no wage growth, recovery incomplete, no macroprudential (which will come first). Nothing hawkish. And he sure isn’t going to tighten when so much of the employment recovery is in the bush (see chart 7):
Thank you for the invitation to join the Australian Farm Institute’s conference. It is a great pleasure for me to visit Toowoomba and to learn more about the issues facing the farm sector and regional Australia.
As we all know, the past year has been an extremely challenging one in the life of our nation. But as a country we pulled together, and we have been up to the task. The results are evident in our health and economic outcomes, which are better than elsewhere in the world. It is important that we don’t lose sight of this.
