Rotten fish head pressures RBA to hold

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They say that the fish rots from the head, and there is no better example than Michael Stutchbury and the AFR.

The decomposing marine skull is no longer the editor, but he still writes biased drivel.

This week’s CPI reading showing annual underlying inflation easing to 3.2 per cent in the last three months of 2024 suggests the Reserve Bank’s generous timetable for getting prices growth back into target is on track. Headline inflation has fallen to 2.4 per cent, but that’s been artificially depressed by household electricity subsidies that will have to reverse. Prices have dropped for imported goods such as clothing due to deflation in the weak Chinese economy.

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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.