Inflation hysteria returns (members)

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From Jonathon Shapiro at the AFR:

Three of the country’s largest banks have slashed their fixed mortgage rates, fighting to win new customers by allowing borrowers to lock in longer-term interest rates of less than 5 per cent.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, National Australia Bank and Westpac Banking Corp on Wednesday became the latest banks to cut fixed rates, each giving borrowers the chance to lock in historically low rates over the longer term.

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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.