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The house price disease is spreading unchecked

ANALYSIS: Falling interest rates are welcome but the economy needs a more advanced prescription.

It does look like house price inflation is bad for us.

Tim Hunter Fri, 13 Sep 2024

To be frank, the science of economics is still so primitive a central bank is like a 19th-century physician whose only remedy for any complaint is the application of leeches.

Our Reserve Bank’s jar of H. medicinalis for treating inflation is the official cash rate, a blunt instrument of crude

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Tim Hunter Fri, 13 Sep 2024
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