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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world -1 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


While again acknowledging the financial stress confronting many households with large mortgages in the face of surging interest rates, RBA governor Michele Bullock said the bank's obligations were to all Australians.

And that goes a long way to explaining why the Reserve Bank board elected to raise interest rates again to 4.35 per cent at its November meeting, having kept them on hold for the previous four months.

"If inflation is simply the product of global supply disruptions or other price rises that monetary policy has little influence over, then the appropriate response from interest rates would generally be limited," Ms Bullock continued.

Second, she said inflation in the services sector, which relies mostly on domestic labour and goods inputs, was a sign that consumer demand remained stronger than the Australian economy could handle.

She said a lack of spare capacity also meant that businesses had incentives to raise prices rather than increase output in the face of strong consumer demand.

Commonwealth Bank chief economist Stephen Halmarick said there seemed to be "a real inability" for the property construction sector to deliver the number of residential dwellings that were needed in Australia right now.


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