APRA hits property investors with wet lettuce

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On Thursday morning, a press release from APRA with the headline:

‘APRA to limit high debt-to-income home loans to constrain riskier lending’

At first glance, it sounds perfectly reasonable, but once one begins to read into the details, it swiftly becomes clear that it is yet another one of APRA’s wet lettuce leaf approaches to macroprudential policy, rather than a more impactful shift.

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Tarric is an Australian freelance journalist and independent analyst who covers economics, finance, and geopolitics. Tarric is the author of the Avid Commentator Report. His works have appeared in The Washington DC Examiner, The Spectator, The Sydney Morning Herald, News.com.au, among other places.