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回复 210楼 kiwidragon 的帖子
看来你的观点和现在的主流舆论有很大的差别呀...
再来看看这个周日的afr.com的头版消息:
Australia needs $A at US70¢, says economist
Matthew Drummond - 02 Jun 2013 10:29:28
“It will take a while for all vestiges of the [resources] boom to pass into history but we’re already on that downward path,” economist Ross Garnaut says. Photo: Andrew Meares
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Prominent economist Ross Garnaut believes Australia will need a US dollar exchange rate around the US70¢ mark, and maybe even lower, for non-resource sectors of the economy to regain competitiveness.
Regaining competitiveness would also require restraint on incomes from all levels in Australian society, starting with large executive salaries which had blown out by several hundred per cent since 2000, he told Financial Review Sunday on Channel Nine.
Professor Garnaut last Tuesday gave a landmark speech in which he warned that two decades of economic prosperity had entrenched a culture ill-equipped to make the hard choices needed to allow the economy to boost competitiveness and provide growth once the mining boom is over.
Elaborating on that speech, Professor Garnaut, a China expert and former Prime Minister Bob Hawke’s economic adviser, said that the mining boom had peaked in 2011.
“The boom doesn’t end all at once,” he said. “Parts of it have already ended. We’re already seeing substantial declines from their peaks in prices for iron ore, thermal coal, coking coal. We’re seeing firms deciding not to put in new investments and where they can cutting back on investments.
“It will take a while for all vestiges of the boom to pass into history but we’re already on that downward path.”
No surprise if dollar falls below US70¢
Transitioning the economy away from its reliance on mining and towards areas like services, manufacturing and tourism would require a big depreciation in the value of the dollar and the recent fall in the nominal exchange rate against the US dollar was only a small start.
“Once it starts to fall a lot with a lag, we’ll start getting an increase in investment in non-resource export industries. I would be surprised if we are able to make the adjustments we need to make without a real depreciation of 20 to 40 per cent,” Professor Garnaut said.
“I won’t be at all surprised if before this process is over we see exchange rates against the US dollar with a seven in front. I won’t be terribly surprised if there are times when we see it with a six in front.”
An Australian dollar around the US70¢ mark would require a much bigger fall than is predicted by most currency experts. Even the most bearish currency strategies have the dollar remaining in the US85¢ to US87¢ range by next year.
Executive wage restraint needed
Professor Garnaut said the Reserve Bank of Australia needed to keep cutting interest rates until businesses could have confidence that a much weaker currency would be sustained.
Once the dollar was much lower the hard work would begin of keeping down incomes and expenditure so that Australian businesses gained competitiveness, he said, singling out high levels of executive remuneration as both a symbolic and real problem for the economy.
Executive remuneration was now so high it had become a significant proportion of national income.
“We need restraint across the board, and the area of incomes that’s blown out most during this time of profligacy has been executive incomes, which have increased many, many hundreds of per cent if you got back to turn of the century. That has to come in.”
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