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Michael Pascoe

Michael Pascoe: RBA on the precipice of its second big mistake

The Reserve Bank has raised interest rates enough, Michael Pascoe writes. Photo: TND

OK, Phil, that’s enough. Put your weapon down before you do yourself – and the economy – harm.

The Reserve Bank Governor’s biggest mistake so far isn’t what he has done with his “blunt instrument” of interest rates, but that wild swing of his only other tool, the Jawbone, when he suggested “the cash rate is very likely to remain at its current level until at least 2024”.

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