Stephen Koukoulas
speaker
2,355 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
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So they've got a chance to articulate, which again what Andrew Hauser uh effectively did and Sarah Hunter sort of in not quite so direct terms, sort of alluded to in their various interviews last week, that we may need to hike interest rates further to get that inflation rate down.
It is not falling.
as quickly as we would like it to be.
One way to fix it, higher interest rates.
It's a pretty simple and a blunt tool, as they say.
And by then we'll only be, what's that, about ten days before the next RBA monetary policy board meeting on the Monday and Tuesday, twenty eighth, twenty ninth of September.
So we're getting very close to that date.
There's a couple of bits of information the following week on labor force and the like.
So they're probably not going to be sort of the blowaway number that would make them change their mind.
They might reinforce what they want to do, but not necessarily make them change their mind.
But I think
For the here and now, as the RBA are crunching their forecasts, they're updating their news about what's happening in the global economy, global inflation, commodity prices are at an all-time high.
My favorite indicator, the CRB index, commodities research bureau index of commodity prices, which has
energy, agriculture, uh base metals, precious metals, lean hogs or whatever.
That's at an all time high.
That's saying that there's something brewing in the global economy and it's why the bond market's blowing up.
It's why there's rate hikes being considered and in fact delivered by many other central banks apart
our
government.
They're borrowing from the financial markets to fund their budget deficits, inevitably.
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