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Jonathan Kearns

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RBA must raise rates to lower risk of stagflation

Just as antibiotics can stop a lung infection worsening into pneumonia, a higher cash rate now can suppress high inflation’s pernicious effects of...

03.05.2026 20

Financial Review

Jonathan Kearns

APRA’s risky lending crackdown is not the right remedy

The regulator knows it will be blamed if the housing market overheats or there is a crash. But its pre-emptive restrictions are not well targeted.

01.12.2025 10

Financial Review

Jonathan Kearns

Why the Fed’s independence is worth fighting for

We should be both alert to and alarmed by political attacks on central banks and their implementation of monetary policy.

10.07.2025 10

Financial Review

Jonathan Kearns