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Speaker 1: Now, to give you an insight into just how hard

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Speaker 1: Christian Hawksby's job is today, have a look at what

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Speaker 1: the shadow board says. Now, the Nzidier has a monetary

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Speaker 1: policy shadow board. It's a bunch of economists in their

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Speaker 1: view as to what should be happening today. Some say

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Speaker 1: twenty five points, one says fifty. Some say don't do

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Speaker 1: anything at all. How do you deal with that? These

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Speaker 1: are experts. They know what they're doing, or do they? So?

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Speaker 1: No matter what Christian does, some of them are going

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Speaker 1: to be going what nurse they thinking? Think about the

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Speaker 1: difference between fifty and nothing? I mean, fifty is a lot.

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Speaker 1: Fifty is things aren't good and we need to fire

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Speaker 1: the place up a bit. Nothing as well, things are

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Speaker 1: just where we want them? Are they where we want them? No?

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Speaker 1: Is my answer, But then I'm not an economist. Most

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Speaker 1: of them say things like, boy, this is tricky. My

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Speaker 1: word isn't uncertainty the watch word of the day. And

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Speaker 1: it's through this murky mix of who the hell knows

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Speaker 1: what's going on? Christian has to wade and produce something

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Speaker 1: that will see us head into a half decent Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Of course, that's part of the mess. We're in. There

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Speaker 1: is a lot of water to go under our belliguate

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Speaker 1: bridge before Christmas, and a number of decisions from the

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Speaker 1: reserve banks still to come along. Of course, with the

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Speaker 1: much die sected commentary, what is twenty five or fifty

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Speaker 1: or nothing actually mean? What's old Christian thinking? Tell you

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Speaker 1: this for nothing? A big part of this equation is mood.

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Speaker 1: It's the same with the budget last week. In this

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Speaker 1: depreciation measure, you've got to want to get amongst this.

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Speaker 1: You have to take your mortgage rate cut and do

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Speaker 1: something with it. You have to want to buy your

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Speaker 1: tractor or your ute and depreciate at twenty percent. If

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Speaker 1: you're in a funk and you're not spending, then depreciating

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Speaker 1: nothing is nothing and no one gains. Christian or Nicola

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Speaker 1: for that matter, can't do it all. At some point

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Speaker 1: we have to believe. We have to have our arm twisted.

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Speaker 1: We have to see of a little bit of light.

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Speaker 1: Most important factor in any economy is us and mood.

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Speaker 1: At some point a switch has to go off, a

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Speaker 1: decision has to be made, and better days have to

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Speaker 1: be looked forward to. So let's hope today is part

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Speaker 1: of that story. For more from the mic Asking Breakfast.

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