How the Iran–US Conflict Could Impact Australian Property, Inflation and Interest Rates
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Very important. Tell us the area that you are in and we will make that connection. But it's a Saturday and it is March the 7th. What a week that we have had with the Iran-US conflict and what that is going to mean for Australia. Economists are saying that the most immediate impact for Australians will be at the petrol pump. We've talked about this, the higher fuel costs that quickly ripples through the entire economy. Why does that matter? Well, you've just got to look at the transport costs. They go on the rise. Freight becomes more expensive. You've got airfares that are going to increase exponentially. And then we've got the dreaded grocery and food prices that are set to rise because nearly every product moves by truck or ship.
Energy shocks quickly turn into broad inflation. So we're going to sort of cover this off this morning. I've got an economist who is going to join us. So let's go to Hobart and catch up with Saul Eslake from Carina Economic Advisory. And welcome on this Saturday morning to the Real Estate Breakfast. This war sort of came out of nowhere, but it sort of drags everybody around the world into it, including Australia.
Yes, it does. Oil power the global economy. When there is an interruption to the supply of oil and or a significant increase in the price of oil, the consequences are far reaching. And that is what we are starting to see in the wake of the conflict which broke out in the Middle East last weekend.
It runs so deeply because there are these, they call them hidden tacks on households. We've got farming machinery, fertilizer production, refrigerated transport, food distribution. It means that the supermarkets, the restaurants, all of those delivery costs all climb when energy prices spike. It reaches far and wide. I think a lot of people don't realize just how far that reaches, the tentacles of it.
In addition to all of the tentacles that you just mentioned then, there's another one that's particularly important, and it's a lesson to be learned from the spike in oil prices that occurred in the wake of Putin's invasion. up to $120 a barrel briefly three or four months after the initial invasion of Ukraine. And that's, of course, higher than oil prices have reached so far, although if the conflict continues for weeks, as Donald Trump has suggested it might, then that previous level for households is another round of electricity price increases if the elevated level of oil and natural gas prices on global markets persists for longer than a few weeks.
Yeah, and the problem people have got right now who are listening to the podcast, they've got their mortgages. They're hearing Michelle Bullock, the RBA governor, saying that they are watching with a lot of interest in terms of how this may affect inflation. But yes, the supply shock that Michelle Bullock talks about that pushes inflation higher, they're very alert at the moment as to which way this may go.
that's right and that's an important distinction economists distinguish between a supply shock and a demand shock a demand shock is an increase in national income that people spend to buy more goods and services And that tends, in the absence of any reaction from monetary or fiscal policy, to result in both stronger economic growth and higher inflation.
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