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Rate rises are doing what they were meant to

Readers’ letters on interest rate policy; wealth and the young; Australia’s place in Asia; credit card fees; sumo tournaments; fixed-interest investors; and David Rowe’s cartoons.

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Recent, rather distraught commentary on interest rate policy by assorted politicians leaves me bemused (“‘It’s self-evident’: Chalmers stands firm on rates ‘smashing the economy’”).

 David Rowe

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