{"id":900890,"date":"2026-04-22T17:12:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/painful-as-it-is-the-rate-rise-was-the-easy-part-trump-has-turned-economic-policy-into-a-lottery\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:12:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:12:48","slug":"painful-as-it-is-the-rate-rise-was-the-easy-part-trump-has-turned-economic-policy-into-a-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/painful-as-it-is-the-rate-rise-was-the-easy-part-trump-has-turned-economic-policy-into-a-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"Painful as it is, the rate rise was the easy part. Trump has turned economic policy into a lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the RBA&#8217;s decision to lift interest rates was all about inflation before the Iranian war started, its task from here on is immensely difficult. There&#8217;s no rulebook for economic decisions in an era of a Mad King.<br \/>\nThe post Painful as it is, the rate rise was the easy part&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2026\/03\/18\/rba-interest-rate-rise-donald-trump-global-economy-iran-oil\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Bernard Keane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the RBA&#8217;s decision to lift interest rates was all about inflation before the Iranian war started, its task from here on is immensely difficult. There&#8217;s no rulebook for economic decisions in an era of a Mad King. The post Painful as it is, the rate rise was the easy part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":900891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31526,192,4],"tags":[20005,5052],"class_list":{"0":"post-900890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-painful","8":"category-sports","9":"category-trump","10":"tag-painful","11":"tag-trump"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}