It ain’t gas and electricity driving the CPI…yet

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There’s nothing quite like the combination of an idiot MSM and a lying pollie:

Stubbornly high inflation could force the Reserve Bank to deliver an additional three rate hikes and risk recession, after surging holiday and electricity prices drove inflation to its highest level in more than 30 years.

Consumer price growth lifted to 7.8 per cent in the year to December, up from 7.3 per cent in September. The stronger-than-anticipated acceleration in annual inflation was driven by a near 9 per cent jump in household power bills and a 13 per cent leap in domestic travel and accommodation.

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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.