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The reserve bank has spent most of the year furiously increasing interest rates but now the big banks are betting they'll start falling again soon.
It's not due to an improving economic outlook. It's because the rapid rate hikes globally could land us in recession. Today, ABC business editor Ian Verrender on the 'miserable' state of the economy and why the credibility of the RBA is on the line.
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