To some of us who remember the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rising above 10% for much of the late 70s and early 80s, the RBA’s present determination to drive up inflation might seem a little counterintuitive.

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The good news bubbling beneath the headlines around Australia’s pace in its vaccination program for the past couple of weeks has been that despite the uncertainty, and the recent withdrawal of a number of fiscal stimulus programs (notably JobKeeper), economic indicators continue to tick along quite nicely.

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Millions of Australians will be worse off when a tax stimulus measure finishes at the end of this financial year. The $1080 low and middle income tax offset (LMITO), which benefits people with a taxable income of between $48,000 and $90,000, is due to end in June.

Josh Frydenberg is expected to hand down a budget in far better shape than was expected just a few months ago due to the economy performing much stronger than predicted.

It makes sense that the cheaper you buy an asset the higher its prospective return will be. However, this is frequently forgotten with investors often tempted to project recent returns into the future regardless of valuations.

While Japanese shares fell -0.3% over the last week and Chinese shares lost -1.4%, US shares rose 1.4% to a new record high and European shares rose 1.3% to their highest since the year 2000, pushed by good economic data, a strong start to the US earnings reporting season, ongoing dovish comments from the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and tame bond yields.

Average dwelling prices in Australian capital cities rose by 2.8% in March, their seventh consecutive monthly gain and the largest in more than 30 years. Prices are now up by 3.5% on previous record highs and almost 5% on pre-pandemic levels.

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While Japanese fell -0.3% over the last week and Chinese shares fell -1.0%, US shares rose 2.7% to a new record high helped by strong data, stimulus optimism and dovish comments from the Fed and Eurozone shares also rose 0.7%.

A leading business lobby group says Australian governments should be supporting businesses and individuals to buy electric vehicles rather than slapping taxes on them.

In February, almost as many people were employed in Australia than were in work the year prior, before the onset of the pandemic.

It’s been more than a year since the RBA started using a range of unconventional monetary policies in response to the impact on the economy of the pandemic driven lockdowns and we are now seeing a strong recovery.