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Chief economist update: When monetary and fiscal policies don't meet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2019
... President Trump and his central bank governor Jerome Powell don't see eye to eye with the conduct of government and monetary policies, there is no meeting of the minds between Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (and his Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg) ...

Chief economist update: Zero here we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2019
... to provide greater confidence that inflation will be consistent with the medium-term target...and is prepared to ease monetary policy further if needed to support sustainable growth in the economy, full employment and the achievement of the inflation ...

Chief economist update: The greatest central banker of modern times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
... the big one (so far) had only been announced a month before (in September) where the ECB decided to adopt substantial monetary policy stimulus measures. It stated: "The package consists of five elements: (i) a cut in the interest rate on the deposit ...

Retirement income under review

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... three person review panel including SMSF Association chair Deborah Ralston will conduct the review. Former International Monetary Fund executive director Michael Callaghan will chair the review, with Future Fund guardian Carolyn Kay also on the panel. ...

Chief economist update: China's great leap forward 70 years in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... security contribution fees for companies and increased spending on infrastructure and environmental projection - as well as monetary ones - the PBOC has cut the reserve requirement ratio several times from 17% in March 2018 to a 12-year low of 13% in ...

Chief economist update: Morrison, Frydenberg cannot have their surplus and eat it too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
... rates) to borrow. RBA governor Philip Lowe acknowledged as much in his recent address to the Armidale Business Chamber, "monetary policy has become less effective at the margin"; and The government's obsession with achieving a Budget surplus. The ...

Chief economist update: RBA cuts official cash rate to 0.75%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... unemployment and achieving more assured progress towards the inflation target," he said. "The board is prepared to ease monetary policy further if needed to support sustainable growth in the economy, make further progress towards full employment, and ...

Chief economist update: Time for a Keynes comeback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... central banks have already cut interest rates (more than once) and/or restarted QE, or promised to maintain ultra-loose monetary policy with a view to implementing even greater accommodation (if needed). The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and ...

Chief economist update: The BOJ needs to run faster to stay in the running

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... been giving this advice to Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Haruhiko Kuroda san, instead of Alice. But nah. The BOJ kept monetary policy settings as they were - the policy rate at -0.1%; the target for 10-year JGBs at around zero percent; and, purchase "exchange-traded ...

Chief economist update: Future path of fed funds rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... there through to the end of 2020 (whatever "there" would be). This divide in participants' assessments of appropriate monetary policy comes amid very little change in the Fed's economic projections. While 2019 GDP growth was revised a tad higher ...