The holy trinity on the Money Café this week. Alan Kohler and James Thomson, Chanticleer columnist at the Australian Financial Review, discuss how attuned an indebted nation is to interest rate rises, whether inflation is temporary or sustained, what it means for paying off a mortgage or paying into super, how much of a buffer counts and, ooof, what it all means for rents. Also, as the outcome of the $20 bet on the seat of Kooyong approaches: do the independents have a puppetmaster and what a hung parliament could mean for the ASX.

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