Doesn’t Morrison know he will be judged by the number of dead?

Friday 13 March 2020

Paul Kelly blows the fog of war today:

Scott Morrison gets near full marks for his Australian response and Donald Trump gets a failure on his lack of global leadership.

Morrison’s package is well designed, temporary but heavily targeted, trying to avert an Australian recession in the June quarter. Trump’s ineptitude on Thursday in his economic response raises a fresh doubt: that the lack of US leadership will damage Australia and the world.

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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.