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Economics

Prayin' for a taperin'

Talk about being stuck between a rock and hard place. Governor Glen Stevens can't raise interest rates because it could send the overvalued A$ even higher and further slow the slowing economy. He couldn't lower interest rates further without blowing the property market into a bubble (if as he thinks, it is not yet).

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