The Kouk is the last sane economist standing

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Well, not the only one, but close enough:

The Reserve Bank of Australia is expected to be the last major central bank to start cutting interest rates and economists predict the cash rate will remain on hold at least until November.

A sizeable minority of economists say 2025 is more realistic for the first interest rate cut from the RBA because inflation hasn’t slowed as much as other countries and the job market remains tigh

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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.