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Brian Redican
CHIEF ECONOMIST
NEW SOUTH WALES TREASURY CORPORATION
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What makes an economist an economist? TCorp chief economist Brian Redican reflects on over three decades of navigating Australia's economic cycles. Riddhima Talwani writes.
The cat is dead. It's been dead for three years. What you're seeing is FrankenCat - it looks alive only because central banks have taken over debt markets.
Sorry Ben,
"In one of the clearest signal yet that it's about to act, ECB chief Mario Draghi declared that "The strengthening of the exchange rate requires further monetary stimulus. That's an important dimension for our price stability."
So the ECB will embark on another round of 'stimulus', through monetary channels that largely stop with insolvent euro financial institutions? My original 'crucifixion' of your comment was not that central banks wont act, but the giant logical leap that that such actions will 'support sustainable growth'.
My point is there is very little reliable evidence to support such a notion, only hypotheticals of what might have been. Today's snippets of 2 in 1000 data points and the jawboning of an ECB banker are nice distractions as they are every trading day, but miss the point completely.
If you want to discuss how such distractions are likely to affect short term market pricing and possibly stay a Faber style correction, sure , I'm not inclined to disagree! But linking Draghi comments and the FED's actions to actual improvement in economic fundamentals beyond staying a global banking meltdown in 08/09.....That remains speculation and critical analysis is something that will only be possible ex post, probably the next crisis!