Private credit grows again

31 March 2016

 

Forbes magazine and its guest writer, economist Steven Keen, published an article just a few days ago saying Australia will go into recession, most probably by 2017. The premise of the article is private credit in Australia has been growing in excess of GDP growth and it will drop back in a form of mean reversion, reducing aggregate demand and thus producing a recession. Perhaps the timing was coincidental but...

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