Despite the independence of central banks, there’s no getting politics out of monetary policy. In Australia ... to push down interest rates — the RBA must avoid any suggestion it is either ...

RBA Assistant Governor (financial markets ... is only one of the channels of monetary policy transmission”. This is a point that CCI has long made, despite the widely-held market belief the ...

That’s a problem for Australian monetary policy now ... “narrow path” experiment has failed? Or should the RBA set out its policy narrative more fully, describing the complexity of the ...

The beleaguered residential property market will be one key transmission mechanism through which the RBA’s interest rate relief will affect the wider economy.

Australia’s central bank will embark on interest-rate cuts next month, according to a majority of economists polled by ...

The RBA doesn’t focus on the headline inflation ... the Reserve Bank’s separate November statement on monetary policy forecasts the unemployment rate to increase gradually “before ...