There’s a hundred other ways to properly reduce inflation in a market, and they just focus on the same one thing over and over, all the while the wealth gap continues to grow… it’s grossly negligent policy behaviour
'Hairdressers, dentists and dining out': The price rises that told the RBA it needed to raise rates again
Submitted 1 year ago by PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone to australia@aussie.zone
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Fluid@aussie.zone 1 year ago
LineNoise@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yup, but for the most part they're levers government needs to pull.
Stage 3 tax cuts still on the go of course.
shirro@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Raising rates is a legit proven way to combat inflation but there have to be more nuanced approaches available. Economic thought seems to have stagnated more than wages. Wage earners with dependents have been going backwards in a big way.
If they want to take the steam out of spending by the investment income class then perhaps they should be targeted specifically instead of previously comfortable working families struggling to feed and cloth their kids. We could look at increasing taxes on the wealthy, reducing tax evasion and removing negative gearing. But no, lets hit the people who will hurt the most. Worst Labor government ever.
rainynight65@feddit.de 1 year ago
Raising interest rates has not proved effective in curbing inflation so far. Why keep using a clearly ineffective, blunt tool that appears to be causing more harm than good?
ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 1 year ago
It has had an effect. To show what it can do look at countries where they don’t (e.g. Turkey, Argentina) and you’ll see that raising interest rates is important. The government has other tools as well, but interest rates are a very important lever
Nonameuser678@aussie.zone 1 year ago
One of these things is not like the others though…
PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone 1 year ago
The fact they are putting looking after the health of your teeth or your physical appearance on the same level as going out for a meal or going to a sports game is so infuriating.
If you squinted your eyes and tilt your head to the side, you could say the prior is not essential.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 year ago
‘Hairdressers, dentists and dining out’
Ok, what about cruises and follow me golf buggies?
zurohki@aussie.zone 1 year ago
IIRC the prices of stuff rich people spend money on aren’t going up much, because those are optional purchases and sales will drop if prices go up.
It’s things like housing and food that are skyrocketing which are hitting poor people the hardest. What are you going to do, stop eating?
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
While again acknowledging the financial stress confronting many households with large mortgages in the face of surging interest rates, RBA governor Michele Bullock said the bank’s obligations were to all Australians.
And that goes a long way to explaining why the Reserve Bank board elected to raise interest rates again to 4.35 per cent at its November meeting, having kept them on hold for the previous four months.
“If inflation is simply the product of global supply disruptions or other price rises that monetary policy has little influence over, then the appropriate response from interest rates would generally be limited,” Ms Bullock continued.
Second, she said inflation in the services sector, which relies mostly on domestic labour and goods inputs, was a sign that consumer demand remained stronger than the Australian economy could handle.
She said a lack of spare capacity also meant that businesses had incentives to raise prices rather than increase output in the face of strong consumer demand.
Commonwealth Bank chief economist Stephen Halmarick said there seemed to be “a real inability” for the property construction sector to deliver the number of residential dwellings that were needed in Australia right now.
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Taleya@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Jesus christ talk about arse backwards. Prices aren’t going up because of demand. There is no genuine lack of goods to drive the price. It’s all artificial. Prices are rising because they can, and this then knocks into other business who now have to rise to cover costs.
This idiot logic also has the potential to genuinely create a feedback loop of utter hell. Oh your hairdresser upped their prices to cover their rent which has increased because their landlord now has to pay more interest on the loan? BETTER UP THE INTEREST SOME MORE.
Fluid@aussie.zone 1 year ago
It’s by design unfortunately. All those in a position to actually make decisions about fiscal and monetary policies are the wealthy class, with vested interests in keeping the model in their own favour. Privatise gains, publicise losses, and shift debt onto the next generation before they can do anything about it.