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Thanks for the update Keith, maybe i am a bit more naive, but i was under the impression that if the RBA keeps rates at 3%, there is less pressure in the future to raise rates quickly. Hence with a 3% rate, there would be a longer period of time before interest rates go above 3%, than if say...

Guys maybe i am looking at this from a different angle. There are a number of posts now about long term fixed rates going up. Before the credit crisis, banks would securitise their lending books, so basically once the underlying loan was securitised, it wasnt the banks problem anymore...

Thanks for that Keith. My gut feeling, and its only a gut feeling from trying to read the mindset of the RBA board, is that the RBA would prefer to keep interest rates a bit higher than the short term 'optimal' rate, so they dont have to increase interest rates as fast. But this is only a...