{"id":368412,"date":"2025-12-24T07:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368412\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T07:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:48:10","slug":"former-rba-economist-blasts-albanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368412\/","title":{"rendered":"Former RBA economist blasts Albanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last two and a half years, the Albanese government has embarked on a campaign that one former RBA economist characterises as artificially manipulating the headline Consumer Price Index through electricity subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>This has significantly suppressed the rate of headline inflation relative to where it would otherwise have been.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/KiC0w-australia-electricity-contribution-to-headline-annual-inflation-percentage-points-.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former Reserve Bank economist John Simon expressed this view in his comments to the Australian Financial Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the last two and a half years, the Albanese government has embarked on a campaign that one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-368412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}