{"id":6268,"date":"2012-11-24T14:16:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T19:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=6268"},"modified":"2012-11-24T14:16:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T19:16:55","slug":"the-export-price-norm-saved-australia-from-the-great-recession-the-market-monetarist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/24\/the-export-price-norm-saved-australia-from-the-great-recession-the-market-monetarist\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cExport Price Norm\u201d saved Australia from the Great Recession \u00ab The Market Monetarist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Market Monetarist writes how a combination of luck and good policy saved Australia from recession.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color:#ddddff;\"><p>Milton Friedman once said never to underestimate the importance of luck of nations. I believe that is very true and I think the same goes for central banks. Some nations came through the shock in 2008-9 much better than other nations and obviously better policy and particularly better monetary policy played a key role. However, luck certainly also played a role&#8230;..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/marketmonetarist.com\/2012\/11\/19\/the-export-price-norm-saved-australia-from-the-great-recession\/\">The \u201cExport Price Norm\u201d saved Australia from the Great Recession \u00ab The Market Monetarist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Market Monetarist writes how a combination of luck and good policy saved Australia from recession. Milton Friedman once said never to underestimate the importance of luck of nations. I believe that is very true and I think the same goes for central banks. Some nations came through the shock in 2008-9 much better than &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/24\/the-export-price-norm-saved-australia-from-the-great-recession-the-market-monetarist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The \u201cExport Price Norm\u201d saved Australia from the Great Recession \u00ab The Market Monetarist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,31],"tags":[290,2346,2860],"class_list":["post-6268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-nz-countries-regions","category-the-fed-banks-interest-rates","tag-australia","tag-monetary-policy","tag-rba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The \u201cExport Price Norm\u201d saved Australia from the Great Recession \u00ab The Market Monetarist - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The \u201cExport Price Norm\u201d saved Australia from the Great Recession \u00ab The Market Monetarist - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Market Monetarist writes how a combination of luck and good policy saved Australia from recession. 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