Lady economists drive economy into a ditch

Wednesday 9 July 2025

I don’t think gender is relevant to stupidity, but The Australian does.

They are the three women steering the nation’s economic course, a triumvirate of power not afraid to push back and make tough decisions.

…On Tuesday, Treasury secretary Jenny Wilkinson attended her first RBA board meeting, replacing former secretary Steven Kennedy and shifting the gender ratio 2:1 in favour of women. That’s six women and three men setting our interest rates.

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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.