Today’s decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia to cut interest rates from 2.0% to 1.75% will help solve the economy’s twin problems of too slow growth and too low underlying inflation. It also vindicates our decision to forecast that rates would fall further even when most others thought that 2.0% would be the floor. The RBA will probably cut rates to our long-held forecast of 1.5% soon.
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