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You can’t reduce debt by taking on more debt

7 December 2020

3:08 PM

7 December 2020

3:08 PM

Pop. That is the sound of the pin of reality piercing the inflated balloon of Australian economic wishful thinking.

Fresh this afternoon:

Victoria and NSW have lost their prized AAA credit ratings, with ratings agency S&P Global downgrading both states on Monday in moves that put a cloud over the federal government’s own AAA rating.

So much for all the spin that Australia’s government debt is less than that of other nations.

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