Australia is currently a one trick pony so far as investment go's, resources. Our main customers/producers are already looking elsewhere due to increasing costs of production here thanks to the braindead morons
running ruining the country at the moment. All the interest in a strong dollar could evaporate literally overnight and it would take very little to see much of the current foreign investment withdrawn to shore up problems at home once a black swan event occurs.
Consider for example the last little ripple back in 08/09, the govt had a nice little kitty of 70 odd billion in the bank which it pissed up against the wall in short order and an average interest rate which could be lowered so as to ease the pain for business and mortgage holders.
Whats left now ? as JulieW ask's above Quo Vadis ?
Reno I think you are looking at things through rose coloured glasses M8. The mad bastards in the U.S and Europe are running around from leak to leak along the dam front as it is now placing papier-mache over ever increasing holes, sooner or later there is going to be a cascade effect that will take the whole system down the S bend. The patient is already dead they just haven't turned off the life support system. It is an Ex Parrot.
China buy's our stuff so it can make crap to sell back to us, the U.S and Europe right?. Once the U.S or Europe stop buying China's stuff China stops buying our stuff. Things don't just have to stop for the whole house of cards to collapse tho, just slow down enough for the derivatives market to kick in and blow the lid off the whole charade.
Top Derivatives Expert Estimates Size of the Global Derivatives Market at $1,200 Trillion Dollars 20 Times Larger than the Global Economy
http://www.globalresearch.ca/financ...lion-dollars-20-times-the-world-economy/30944
China itself has some nasty little banking horror's in it's own closet and a massive population well over due for some fun and games on the home front as well.
Everything is not peachy keen and it's not different here, wake up and smell the roses man, they are dead and the vase is full of putrid water.