Rates not a cure-all, says outgoing RBA governor
Sydney
GLENN Stevens used his final speech as central bank governor to try to shake Australia out of its torpor.
The longer-term outlook he painted was fairly bleak: an extended period of low growth, debt-laden households with restricted borrowing capacity, monetary policy approaching its limit, a gaping budget deficit that must be filled, productivity-enhancing reform that needs to be implemented and a lack of government-financed infrastructure.
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