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Show Notes

Well now we know. Australia’s annual GDP growth rate fell to its lowest level since December 1991, outside of the pandemic as consumers hunkered down in the face of elevated borrowing costs and stubbornly sticky inflation. Annual GDP growth has slowed markedly from a decade average of 2.4%, partly due to the RBA’s rate tightening campaign through 2022-23 to rein in inflation. The cash rate is currently at a 12-year high of 4.35% and policymakers have signaled they’re in no rush to cut any time soon. Australia’s Q2 GDP was worse than economists expected, growing by only 0.2% over the […]

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