Former RBA economist Peter Tulip on life after the central bank and the solution to Australia's housing crisis
Peter Tulip had spent his career in the public service. But in 2020, he up and left the Reserve Bank with a scathing exit speech.
The Reserve Bank is stacked with some of the top economic minds in Australia. But very few of them have the freedom to speak to the media, particularly on the record.
There are good reasons for any central bank to be careful with its public commentary. But this caution can be a source of frustration for outsiders wanting more from one of the nation’s most important economic institutions.
As it turns out, it’s also frustrating for some of those who work within it. This includes former senior research manager Peter Tulip who, after nine years at the bank and a decade before that at the US Federal Reserve, left the public sector altogether in 2020 to join a think tank.
“I’ve got a lot more freedom than I had at the RBA. For instance, I would not be allowed to have this conversation,” Tulip tells Capital Brief.
