David Taylor
speaker
997 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
David Taylor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We're not there yet and we may avoid it.
Hopefully we do avoid it.
But this US ten year treasury wields th re yield the so-called risk-free rate, risk-free in inverted commerce because it's backed by the US government.
If that comes under question and it is moving in that direction, then it's unclear what will happen next.
And there are no real question marks now, currently, among traders that I speak to about the credit quality of US debt.
It's clear that the government needs to restructure its finances, perhaps spend a bit less and uh and raise taxes where it's not gonna hurt you politically, however hard that is.
But if you get the US deficit under control
And even balance the budget, that debt will work itself out.
It'd be an enormous task.
But that's the key.
Th the the market needs to be convinced that the US government knows how to balance its books.
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And I'm the ABC's business correspondent, David Taylor.
Well, I mean it's it's a extraordinary announcement when you think about it, because when else would this type of announcement even fly?
You've got a superannuation system
It's been developed by Paul Keating.
Admittedly, it was designed so that once you finished your life's work and let's face it, in past generations some people had worked for the same company their whole life.
And you got to the end of that, and there's this big pile of money that had been growing in perpetuity, you know, in theory for decades.
But it was reliant on the fact that you owned your own home.
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