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The New Daily
The New Daily
Alan Kohler

How long will we use human misery to control inflation?

A year ago in these pages I suggested that the Reserve Bank was in danger of getting left behind by inflation, and that we were all therefore “in danger of getting left behind by galloping interest rates”.

RBA governor Philip Lowe had just told the House of Representatives standing committee on economics that it was “plausible … that an interest rate increase will be on the agenda some time later this year”.

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