The RBA’s decision to jack up the pay of its most senior management by 30% during the 2008/09 financial year, the nadir of the global financial crisis, might have been impolitic, says Adam Creighton.
Reserve bank governor
Interest rates: trying to second-guess the RBA
With most gurus forecasting a rate rise at the Reserve Bank’s first board meeting on February 2, the central bank is making sure everyone will have no doubt of just what the bank is thinking for the rest of the year.
The Dyer Index: Stevens’ sunny-side-up optimism could bite him
There wasn’t much left for Reserve Bank Governor, Glenn Stevens to say at today’s appearance before the the House of Reps Economics Committee.
Kohler: RBA goes for glasnost
Warm plaudits to the Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens for the bank’s new policy of glasnost, writes Alan Kohler.
Central banks in the dark on credit crunch
It’s not often you get a central banker who calls for clarity of information in markets. After all, they are supposed to know everything, aren’t they?
