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Michael Pascoe

HISTORICAL FACTS: Michael pascoe still waiting for the real budget boot to drop - Caught on Camera

The budget delivered by Treasurer Jim Chalmers is a winner by default, Michael Pascoe writes. Photo: TND

Did the Treasury Secretary keep schtum in the Reserve Bank board room last week, not warning that Jim Chalmers was about to engineer a 75-point cut in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), letting the bank lift interest rates yet again in ignorance of what should have been a game changer?

Or did the other board members simply not believe the budget would do what Dr Chalmers claims?

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