Perottet’s NSW fascists funding global fascists

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NSW is rotten, politically. Chris Joye with the note on Friday:

Two big dramas playing out this week are the bond market trying to bully Martin Place into tightening monetary policy and allegations that NSW premier Dominic Perrottet’s otherwise remarkable debt retirement fund, which saved taxpayers from a fiscal crisis, has funneled $450 million to dictatorships and tax havens. Let’s examine each in turn.

We know the Aussie economy was absolutely ripping coming into the most recent lockdowns, which informed the Reserve Bank of Australia’s confidence that it should substantially upgrade its growth outlook, only to be kiboshed by the Delta-variant of COVID-19.

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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.