高通胀、低增长和失业率上升，都被加到了联邦财政部长的忧虑清单上。吉姆·查尔默斯上周在一次讲话中，仅提供了寥寥无几的鼓励，称经济一年后将“好一些”。
High inflation, low growth and rising unemployment can be added to the federal treasurer’s wall of worries Jim Chalmers in a speech last week offered the scant encouragement that the economy would be “a bit better” in a year’s time.
到了周五早上，财政部长透露，他的官员们正忙于下调预测，以便在12月的年中预算更新中显示增长放缓和失业率上升。
Fast forward to Friday morning, and the treasurer revealed that his officials were busy downgrading their forecasts ahead of December’s mid-year budget update to show slower growth and higher unemployment.