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	Australian banks lifts interest rate - Boston.com
		In a statement, Reserve Bank governor Ian Macfarlane said there were a string of signs of inflationary pressures that had to be acted upon.
		Macfarlane also said international developments were continuing to stimulate economic growth in Australia.
		CommSec chief equities economist Craig James said the timing of the rise was surprising.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2006/05/02/australian_banks_lifts_interest_rate (307 words)

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	Ian Macfarlane (economist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ian Macfarlane (born 22 June 1946), Australian economist, has been Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Australia's central bank, since September 1996.
		Macfarlane was educated at Monash University, Melbourne and tutored in economics there before joining the RBA in 1970.
		In January 2004 Macfarlane was awarded Australia's highest honour, Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AC).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ian_Macfarlane_(Australian_economist) (219 words)

	Asia Times: Australian retail data may stall interest rate rise
		A survey conducted by AAP found 55 percent of economists expected a move of at least a quarter of a percent.
		The Australian dollar fell from more than three quarters of a US cent from 61.26 cents to 60.54 in the 45 minutes after the release of the data on market fears a rate rise would not be delivered next week.
		Colonial State Bank economist Craig James said that if a rate hike was not delivered next week, a fall in the currency to 58 US cents was a "distinct possibility".
	www.atimes.com /oceania/BD01Ah01.html (794 words)

	Lateline - 04/06/2004: Reserve Bank Governor comfortable with economy
		IAN MACFARLANE: The consensus forecast for a good world recovery is a reasonable one.
		While Mr Macfarlane is pleased with recent evidence that property prices have eased, he says that new home loans that are still being pumped out at $12 billion a month is unsustainable and dangerous.
		IAN MACFARLANE: I think there were a lot of people who thought they were going to get rich and suddenly discovered that they are not going to get rich, they have this asset that's costing them a lot of money to service, it's not going up in price, it's going down.
	www.abc.net.au /lateline/content/2004/s1125190.htm (530 words)

	Ian Callinan Ian Gibson Ian Lang Ian Steward Hudgton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Ian Cawsey Ian Arthur Cawsey (born April 14, 1960) is a British politician, and is Labour member of Parliament for Brigg and Goole.
		Ian Davidson Ian Graham Davidson (born 8 September 1950) is a Scottish politician, and Labour and Co-operative member of Parliament for Glasgow Pollock.
		Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton ( January 16, 1853 October 12, 1947) was a general in the British Army and is most notably known for commanding the ill-fated Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Battle of Gallipoli.
	www.economicexpert.com /2i/I.html (414 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Australian Central Bank Issues Report Card on the Economy
		Reserve Bank Governor Ian Macfarlane, warned that a labor shortage and infrastructure bottlenecks were limiting exports and hindering the entire economy's growth prospects, indicating also that home owners were likely to face interest rate rises in the near future.
		The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Ian Macfarlane reported the state of the economy at the semi-annual testimony to the parliament economic committee on 18 February.
		Mr Macfarlane signalled a gradual rise in underlying inflation to 2.5 per cent by the end of this year and up to 3 per cent by the end of 2006.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-2-22/26588.html (473 words)

	Australian Parliamentary Library - Current Issues Brief 8 1997-98
		Australian economic growth in the short term is likely to be lower than it otherwise would be because of the South-East Asian crisis.
		Estimates of reductions in Australian economic growth resulting from this negative external shock currently range from 0.2 to 1.0 percentage point falls in the next year or two.(13) Initial estimates were at the low end of the range, but more recent forecasts have generally been higher, as more adverse information has been received.
		Ian MacFarlane, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Testimony to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Financial Institutions and Public Administration, Sydney, 6 November 1997; Chris Caton, 'Crisis Flow-On Minimal', The Australian, 4 November 1997, p.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/cib/1997-98/98cib08.htm (3431 words)

	AM - RBA Governor highlights Asia's vital economic role
		Ian Macfarlane's address comes days after the former Prime Minister Paul Keating raised similar concerns and as a leading global economist warns the world is failing to grasp the significance of China's rise.
		IAN MACFARLANE: In terms of population, India is growing at twice the rate of China, and fast approaching it in size.
		STEPHEN LONG: Ian Macfarlane's words echo those of the former Prime Minister, Paul Keating, who said this week China is poised to become the world's next economic superpower.
	www.abc.net.au /am/content/2003/s969137.htm (654 words)

	Central Banks \| Forex Trading
		The Australian dollar is stronger after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)increased interest rates to a 5 year high of 6 percent.
		The Australian Dollar rose to 76.67US cents on 10:22am, Sydney time from 76.50US cents right before the decision to increase the interest rate was made.
		In a statement made by the Reserve Bank of Australia(RBA), says that the Australian economy is growing as the world economy continues to grow in an above average rate.
	www.forextradinghq.com /taxonomy_menu/19/103 (1758 words)

	CNN.com - Australia cuts rates to 4.75 percent - September 4, 2001
		Macfarlane said that while most observers still expect an upturn ahead, the timing of this was being pushed back.
		SG Securities chief economist Glenn Maguire told CNN after the announcement that Australia was likely to see economic growth of 2.1 percent in 2001 and up to 4 percent in 2002.
		While Australian business confidence was higher and domestic demand had picked up after a temporary decline in the second half of 2000, Macfarlane said the Australian economy would still be affected by what he called "the recent deterioration in the international environment."
	archives.cnn.com /2001/BUSINESS/asia/09/04/aust.rba.biz (448 words)

	Australian Financial Review - RBA's Macfarlane wins new term (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The two-page agreement between the Treasurer and the governor codified for the first time the extent of the RBA's independence from the government and the transparency and accountability that was required from it.
		Mr Macfarlane's decision to seek a shorter term was based on a desire to retire at 60 and also to help pave the way for an internal succession plan.
		Economists said Mr Macfarlane, who has spent much of his career at the RBA, had successfully steered the Australian economy through a difficult period, including the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, the implementation of the GST and the latest global slowdown.
	afr.com /articles/2003/07/29/1059244623304.html (735 words)

	Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A survey of 15 economists by the Bloomberg news agency yesterday found nine thought the cut would only be one quarter of one percent, while the rest thought it would be a half a percentage point..........
		Reserve Bank Governor Ian MacFarlane yesterday firmly ruled out a rise in official interest rates, despite speculation that the US Central Bank's recent shift to a tightening bias of monetary policy could be replicated in Australia............
		In an upbeat assessment of the economic outlook yesterday, Mr MacFarlane said the "The boom and bust cycles" of the past did not appear to be a factor in Australia's record run of economic growth......
	www.loanmate.com.au /archives.htm (4101 words)

	Iain Luke Ian Pearson Ian Taylor IAX Ian Stevenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Iain Luke Ian Pearson Ian Taylor IAX Ian Stevenson
		Ian Gibson (politician) Ian Gibson (born 26 September 1938) is a politician in the United Kingdom.
		Ian Bruce Ian Cameron Bruce (born March 14, 1947) is a politician in the United Kingdom.
	www.masterliness.com /2i/I.htm (434 words)

	Australian Financial Review - Building goes through roof (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Economists said last month's strengthening in housing might have been driven by the RBA's own hints that it was considering cutting interest rates again, although the response of consumers now makes a rate cut that much less likely.
		But the RBA has kept interest rates on hold for a year and appears reluctant to join the recent wave of rate cuts offshore for fear of stoking the growth in household credit, already running at more than 20 per cent annually.
		Mr Macfarlane has repeatedly warned in the past year that the pace of credit growth is potentially destabilising.
	afr.com /articles/2003/07/30/1059480385630.html (512 words)

	RBA: Speech-Sir Leslie Melville: His Contribution to Central Banking in Australia
		To the best of my knowledge, he was the first economist that they had ever employed, and I believe the first economist to be employed full-time anywhere in the Australian public sector.
		He was the principal economic advisor to the Australian Government at the Imperial Economic Conference in Ottawa in 1932 and at the World Economic Conference in London in 1933.
		During the twenty or so years that Melville headed the Economist’s Department, he must have been conscious of the fact that, while central banking was undoubtedly important, it was dwarfed in size by the commercial banking activities of the Commonwealth Bank.
	www.rba.gov.au /Speeches/2002/sp_gov_220302.html (2447 words)

	All about Reserve Bank of Australia - RecipeLand.com Reference library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The bank is the banker to the Federal government and some of the Australian states.
		It is headed by the Governor of the Reserve Bank, who as of 2004 is Ian Macfarlane.
		The bank is administered under the Reserve Bank Act 1959, passed by the Australian Federal Parliament.
	www.recipeland.com /encyclopaedia/index.php/Reserve_Bank_of_Australia (313 words)

	Distinguished ANU Economists
		He was one of the small group of Australian economists who advised Australian governments during the depression of the 1930s.
		In the arts, he championed public and private sector sponsorship, chairing as he did the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust between 1954 and 1968; from 1968 to 1974 he was the chair of the Australian Council for the Arts and of its successor, the Australia Council.
		His book, The Australian Trading Banks, first published in 1957, was for several decades the leading work on the Australian monetary and banking systems and was the textbook for all courses on these subjects in Australian universities.
	ecocomm.anu.edu.au /nieb/ANUEconomists2.htm (9215 words)

	Ian Macfarlane (Australian economist) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Ian Macfarlane (born 22 June 1946), Australian economist, has been Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Australia's centralbank, since September 1996.
		From 1971 –; 72 he workedat the Institute of Economics and Statistics at Oxford University, the moved to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris, where he served until 1978, before returning to theRBA.
		In January 2004 Macfarlane was awarded Australia's highest honour, Companion in theGeneral Division of the Order of Australia (AC).
	www.therfcc.org /RFCC/ian-macfarlane-australian-economist--273133.html (197 words)

	RBA: Speech-Relative Advance or Relative Decline?
		Notwithstanding this consideration, some people are still troubled by the amount of portfolio investment abroad by Australian institutions and direct investment abroad by Australian companies, accusing them of turning their backs on Australia.
		More recently, however, most of it has been done by successful Australian firms that have reached their limit of expansion in their own industry locally, but are good enough to compete in other markets in their area of expertise.
		As explained, we have already seen this happening in the Australian figures on foreign investment and it is also showing up elsewhere, including in the US figures on capital movements, where net capital movements have returned to outflows after a few years of heavy inflows.
	www.rba.gov.au /Speeches/2002/sp_gov_250602.html (2416 words)

	Monetary policy and the debt problem
		A classical economist would immediately point out that borrowing is a process whereby purchasing power is temporarily transferred from one person to another, thus leaving total spending unchanged.
		This is something classical economists, at least the early ones, would have pinpointed.
		Until greater monetary understanding is acquired, we can still expect Ian Macfarlane to repeatedly issue vain warnings about the growth of household debt and the need to curb it.
	www.brookesnews.com /042308australianeconomy.html (768 words)

	Australian Economy Stalls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Governor Ian Macfarlane said his board increased the overnight cash rate target a quarter percentage point to 5.5 percent ''to reduce the risk of an unacceptable rise in inflation.''
		Governor Macfarlane said slower growth reflected bottlenecks in the transport and mining industry which are holding back Australian exports, rather than weaker global or domestic demand.
		Australian exports to China from companies including BHP Billiton, the world's largest miner, surged 21 percent in the six months ended Dec. 31.
	investmentsmagazine.com /ManageArticle.asp?C=40&A=12674 (840 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Australia & New Zealand
		June 4 (Bloomberg) -- Australian central bank Governor Ian Macfarlane said investors and traders ``over-reacted'' to a report showing the economy grew at its slowest pace in more than a year in the first quarter as higher interest rates cooled a housing boom.
		Macfarlane today said the bank is relieved by the housing slowdown after two rate increases last year.
		Macfarlane and his eight policy-setting colleagues voted to keep the benchmark overnight cash rate target at 5.25 percent when they met this week.
	quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000081&sid=a5Xi_dB47eAI&refer=australia (728 words)

	The Commonwealth Treasurer – Press Release - Appointment of Chair of the Australian Energy Regulator [11/03/2005]
		The Treasurer, Peter Costello, and the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, Ian Macfarlane, today announced the appointment of Mr Steve Edwell to a three year term as the inaugural Chair of the Australian Energy Regulator (AER).
		In accordance with the Australian Energy Market Agreement 2004, these appointments were made following consultations with the States and Territories that have agreed to be subject to the jurisdiction of the AER and only after a majority of support for the appointments had been obtained.
		Mr Edwell is an economist with extensive experience in economic regulation and competition policy.
	www.treasurer.gov.au /tsr/content/pressreleases/2005/014.asp?pf=1 (337 words)

	Asia Times: Australian business confidence down in February
		The decline was the largest monthly fall since the survey began and returns the confidence index to levels last seen in mid-1998 in the middle of the Asian economic crisis.
		RBA governor Ian Macfarlane earlier said financial markets had read too much into the the run of data in February, assuming incorrectly that the economy was weaker than it was, leading to a fall in the Australian dollar exchange rate.
		In an interview published in the UK on Monday with The Financial Times, Macfarlane reiterated that he expected annual inflation to head towards the upper end of the central bank's 2-3 percent target range, after discounting the impact of the GST.
	www.atimes.com /oceania/BC15Ah01.html (463 words)

	Australian Financial Review - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		While some economists believe rates are likely to rise once more this year, markets have priced out virtually any prospect of a move due to signs of an economic slowdown and an absence of widespread inflation and wage pressures.
		Many economists say the key factor for the RBA in deciding whether to carry out its threat to tighten policy further will be the performance of the labour market.
		Economists expect the May labour force report on Thursday will show a slight pullback in employment after eight months of growth, with the unemployment rate ticking up to 5.2 per cent from a three-decade low of 5.1 per cent.
	afr.com /articles/2005/06/08/1118123871079.html (483 words)

	School of Economics and Commerce - 2000
		The PhD Conference was co-organised with the Centre for Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University, and held at the ANU in November.
		She was responsible for the first volume in the Dictionary of Western Australians series covering the period 1829 to 1850, then edited a book on the letters of a prominent early settler, and contributed to one on the first Surgeon in Western Australia.
		Carl Schwartz is an economist in the Financial and Monetary Conditions area of the Reserve Bank of Australia in Sydney.
	www.ecom.uwa.edu.au /school_of_economics_and_commerce/annual_reports/2000 (14820 words)

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