This week in The Fin podcast, economics editor John Kehoe on why Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe is facing an uphill battle to keep his job and what that means for the economy.

Background reading:

• Replacing Philip Lowe at the RBA is not so easy There’s a handful of candidates in the mix to succeed Philip Lowe, but the dilemma for Jim Chalmers is there is no obvious replacement.
• The day RBA boss Philip Lowe nearly died The central bank chief had felt tired as he walked offstage at a conference on financial stability in Ottawa on May 5, 2016. He thought it was jet lag. It wasn’t.
• Lowe briefs traders at Barrenjoey after rates meeting Philip Lowe attended the investment bank’s event after declining to make a public address on the outlook for monetary policy, which he has done after the first RBA board meeting of the year since 2017.

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