It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

If Australia finds it has a strong Australian dollar, and it has higher unemployment, then it would have to respond, and that would either be by increasing domestic demand or by weakening its own currency.

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

Only a strong economy can create higher asset values and sustainably good returns for savers.

Work has raised the man and it also taught him to aim higher.

Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily provisional.