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It’s now two years since the RBA first started to raise interest rates, resulting in the biggest tightening cycle since the late 1980s. Rates have gone much higher and stayed high for much longer than I thought would be the case as Australian households proved more resilient than expected thanks to a combination of a boost to demand from reopening after ...
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Here are three things I think I am thinking about this week: 1) Is QE Debt “Monetization”? It’s been 15 years since I first said that the Fed wasn’t “monetizing the debt”. My original work on this caused a huge uproar as hyperinflation fears were rampant during the financial crisis. I’d spent years studying Japan’s stimulus programs following their 1990s ...