Loose fiscal policy adds pressure on RBA to hike rates

With the government facing defeat in May’s election, today’s Budget continued the course of loose fiscal policy that began at the start of the pandemic. As the unemployment rate is set to fall to a 50-year low, this only adds to the pressure on the RBA to start tightening monetary policy.

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