The author has been described by News Ltd as an "iconoclast", "Svengali", a pollie's "economist muse", and "pungently accurate". Fairfax says he is a "Renaissance man" and "one of Australia’s most respected analysts." Stephen Koukoulas concludes that he is "85% right", and "would make a great Opposition leader." Terry McCrann claims the author thinks "‘nuance’ is a trendy village in the south of France", but can be "scintillating" when he thinks "clearly". The ACTU reckons he’s "an enigma wrapped in a Bloomberg terminal, wrapped in some apparently well-honed abs."

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

One thing I know for absolutely certain about Glenn Stevens...

Hopefully you will learn some new things about the RBA, and interest rate markets more generally, from this analysis published by the Financial Review at 2.30pm today. Also see my column in today's newspaper on a defence of the banks embroiled in the Libor scandal here.