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The question arose on Organizations and Markets , which industries will be next to hold out their hands for bailout money? Will the massage and sexual favours industry be there in line? A column in Slate shed some light on this topic . It seems that the high end of the industr...
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From today's Fin: As had been the case a month earlier, the papers sent out to members of the Reserve Bank Board the Friday before their most recent meeting on Melbourne Cup Day contained a recommendation that the cash rate be lowered by 50 basis points. However, whereas RBA G...
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Today's Financial Review column. Eminent economist Brad Delong despaired at news of George W Bush's second electoral victory four years ago: The American political system . . . appears incapable of setting out the central fiscal [or budgetary] policy issues in ways that give v...
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Peter Boettke makes a point about the role of tariff protection in the US leading the transition from the Great Crash to the Great Depression. In the context of the Great Depression, one has to remember that after the stock market crash in 1929 market corrections were set in m...
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My posting of a request for people interested in providing research assistance was the most successful bit of job advertising I've ever done.* So why not a little more? Peach Home Loans needs constant media relations work, and its hard to find people who are good at it. Accord...
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THE Victorian State Parliament has resumed sitting. In the front row there is an empty seat normally occupied by my husband, Theo. He remains in self-imposed exile, accused of a crime so awful that it is a struggle for me to fit inside my head that his name (and mine) is assoc...
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I wrote about the Paul Woolley centre for capital market dysfunction a while back . It may not surprise you that Wolley is continuing to get attention, not least in Prospect Magazine. Well worth a read .
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Many people have drawn false parallels between protectionism and deficit hawks. Whereas a retreat from protectionism generally causes pain to many people (and calls for a compensating device), a retreat from recession-driven deficits is an unmitigated bad thing for everyone. S...
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The Bishop of Harare, Rt Rev Dr Sebastian Bakare, will be in Australia from 20 November to 5 December with a circuit in NSW including Sydney, Nowra, Goulburn, Wagga Wagga, , Dubbo, Tamworth, Coffs Harbour, and Gosford. These matters are not on my normal beat but it seems that...
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Barrie Kosky is a big hit with people who are vastly more knowledgeable about theatre than me. He's very big in Europe. So maybe he's just the ticket. My two exposures to his theatre have been strikingly similar. At the end of something I went to at the Sydney Opera House I sn...
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These are difficult times for liberals. The mood around the world is turning against them. Politicians find it easier to blame crazy economists and greedy managers for financial turmoil than to understand and fix their own mistakes. Free-marketers still have the evidence of ec...
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Is there any left wing version of this ? Is there any Australian version of it? Perhaps Alan Jones' malevolence comes close on the Australian right. Given the prominence of these guys, it's scary. Then again, perhaps it shouldn't be taken too seriously. Like 'World Championshi...
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Those in Canberra on the appropriate day might like to come to a free seminar being run by the Queensland University of Technology which is, like the State in which it resides a national leader on access to public sector information. Extracts from the official invite sent roun...
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With intended irony, I christen Paul Krugman the maestro of the column. Here's his latest one. I've only read the first two paragraphs but they illustrate his virtuosity of the form. I'll post the rest of the column below the fold. Kevin, are you listening. Say 'deficit' three...
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Troppo has never had a vision statement. I loathe and abhore them. Indeed I regard them as just so much recriment. Which makes me suggest that we can hold a competition for a Troppo vision statement which contains a good smattering of a bunch of archaic English words that some...
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Why Obama Should Copy Bush (Really!) By Jonathon Cohn You hear lots of talk about which former president Barack Obama should use as a model. Bill Clinton comes up regularly. Franklin Roosevelt, too. But what about the guy in the White House now? I know, President Bushs approva...
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Having read Ken Henry's recent speech , I wanted to do something for Crikey! on it, and proposed something for Friday, but they wanted it today - which gave me 45 minutes. The result is below. If I would have liked to have put some things better, I got my main messages across....
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Like Oscar Wilde said (I think), "I can resist anything except temptation". More here . A long literature in psychology, as well as a more recent theory literature in economics, suggests that prolonged exposure to a tempting stimulus can eventually lead people to ¨Dsuccumb¡¬ t...
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For me anyway. It's on philosophy, the rights of cognitively imparied people and stuff like that. And it's long for a blog post. It might not be your cup of tea at all, but I thought it was great. It's here . For some reason unknown to me, comments are closed on the blog it's...
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