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Sometimes this job is boring—interpolating data, watching indicators grow like grass, and watering the intellectual desert of the Aussie media. Yawn
Then there is the single most onerous task I have had to undertake in thirteen years of writing – analysing the self-serving guff of Dr Jim Chalmers.
Alas, I am forced back into the breach today as our banal treasurer plods through another missive for the purposes of covering his butt:
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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.