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From skyrocketing rents in remote mining towns to the decline of the auto industry, Australia is grappling with the downside of world-beating economic growth that has driven the nation’s currency to record highs.
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Australia’s government should end its “fetish” for avoiding budget deficits and borrow to pay for flood damage rather than impose a one-time levy on taxpayers, said Warwick McKibbin , a member of the central bank’s board.
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The Reserve Bank of Australia will likely “see through” the inflation effects of a carbon tax proposal announced yesterday by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, said economist Warwick McKibbin, an RBA board member.
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The Australian government should borrow money to pay for rebuilding from flood damage instead of imposing a one-time levy on taxpayers to fund the effort, said Warwick McKibbin, a member of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s board.
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Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens, with a pay level set more than four times that of Ben S. Bernanke at the Federal Reserve, oversees a bank that’s less transparent than Poland’s in setting policy.
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Australian consumer prices gained more than economists forecast last quarter, sending the nation’s currency higher as investors pared bets the central bank will cut interest rates.
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Australia appointed former HSBC Holdings Plc economist John Edwards and Catherine Tanna , a managing director at a unit of BG Group Plc to the Reserve Bank’s board.
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Greece is one of several nations that will need to cut spending and boost taxes, slowing global growth even as low interest rates raise the risk of inflation, Australian central bank board member Warwick McKibbin said.
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Australia has room to delay its goal of returning to a budget surplus by 2013 and pay for two months of natural disasters without jeopardizing its AAA credit rating, a Standard & Poor’s analyst said.
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