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Chief economist update: Missing the burning forests for the surplus tree

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
"From a practical perspective, big, impactful and very novel disasters will, hopefully, lead to stronger action to both mitigate emissions and also plan for impacts..." This was Ketan Joshi's - University of Sydney science graduate and international ...

Chief economist update: Australia burns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
... and entire towns wiped out. The silver lining in these dark, smoky clouds is that the fires have spurred the Morrison government to act. According to The Australian : "The federal government will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the reconstruction ...

Chief economist update: Australian economy gently turning which way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2019
... RBA take interest rates to its stated line in the sand of 0.25%, venture into quantitative easing, and the Morrison government forced into raising government spending - bringing forward more tax cuts and lifting expenditure on infrastructure.

Chief economist update: Let's talk about debt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
... "crowding out" private investment that's feared to put upward pressure on interest rates. Time for the Morrison government to do what tell households to do - borrow (while interest rates are low) and spend.

Chief economist update: Reversal of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... singing sad songs about the Australian economy and the need for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Morrison government to do more to reverse the slowing momentum in economic activity in this 'Lucky Country', but I'm starting to change ...

NAB accused of greenwashing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... this year to match that 2030 timeline. Suncorp has committed to exiting thermal coal by 2025. "Whilst the Morrison Government will inevitably fulminate over the thermal coal exit, we need to recognise that NAB's position on climate change is consistent ...

Chief economist update: Beam us up Scotty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
... dropped by 175 basis points from 2.5% when Stevens made the statement to 0.75% currently. It's time for the Morrison government to give up its obsession with a budget surplus and "crowd in" private sector investment. Beam us up Scotty!

Chief economist update: Rate cuts coming, but not on race day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
... positive shock emerges over the next few months, expect the RBA to continue lowering interest rates and the Morrison government to increase fiscal spending (but only after it's achieved having the Budget surplus immortalised on paper). Forget about ...

Chief economist update: Negative bang for RBA, government's buck

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2019
"Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act." - Howard Zinn Taken after the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) third interest rate reduction this year which brought the official cash rate ...

No extension to FASEA deadline

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
... Appearing at the Association of Financial Advisers' National Conference in Adelaide, Senator Hume said the Morrison government is listening to the concerns of financial advisers but did not deliver the announcement of an extension to the deadline ...