Get set for slowing houses and holes…

Tuesday 19 September 2017

As some brave folks prepare for rate rises in Australia, the leading indicators are going entirely in the opposite direction. If one subscribes to the basic premise that Australia is a houses and holes economy, that derives income by selling dirt to China and leverages that in offshore markets for mortgages at home, then the signs are not good.

Firstly, China is slowing. Growth partials are all trending down:

Broad credit is falling year on year suggesting more slowing ahead:

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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.