{"id":405909,"date":"2026-02-03T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405909\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:50:08","slug":"greg-jericho-on-the-cowardly-rate-rise-full-story-podcast-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405909\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Jericho on the \u2018cowardly\u2019 rate rise \u2013 Full Story podcast | Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last August, to the relief of many homeowners, the Reserve Bank\u2019s governor, Michelle Bullock, announced a cut in interest rates and expressed confidence that inflation was heading in the right direction. But on Tuesday, the RBA hiked rates for the first time in over two years, raising the cash rate by 25 basis points to 3.85%<\/p>\n<p>Guardian columnist and chief economist of the Australia Institute Greg Jericho talks to Nour Haydar about what the rate hike means, why he sees it as \u2018cowardly\u2019 and what it all has to do with the Ashes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last August, to the relief of many homeowners, the Reserve Bank\u2019s governor, Michelle Bullock, announced a cut in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-405909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}