Only the end of the beginning
Monday, 28 September 2009 International relations 6 comments
Before a sunrise, there has to be a sunset.
Rudd’s Road to Austerity
Tuesday, 28 July 2009 State of the parties 7 comments
These decades of stagnant real wages is the background that is usually forgotten by billionaires like George Soros and Bill Gross when they get worked up about the rise of credit.
New myths for old
Friday, 24 July 2009 Media analysis 3 comments
It might be that it doesn’t matter and we are not in a lull between the global banking crisis becoming a global fiscal crisis and that indeed the worst is now over and growth will resume. If so, why are some of our brightest talking austerity?
The true meaning of spin
Thursday, 4 June 2009 State of the parties 2 comments
Labor put a positive gloss on the numbers yesterday, but ironically so did the coalition.
The re-election campaign begins
Wednesday, 27 May 2009 Tactics 3 comments
If Labor can look credible enough on climate change, whatever the next election will be fought on, that should be enough to win it.
The state steps in
Monday, 25 May 2009 The Australian state 5 comments
Treasury’s unusual move in projecting growth at a higher trend and for a longer forward projection is necessary to provide a guide path out of the downturn that does not come from the economic programs of the political class.
Bluff and counter-bluff
Sunday, 17 May 2009 Tactics 5 comments
Both parties were just talking tough about going to the electorate with economic programmes that they didn’t have.
What a crisis looks like – an update
Thursday, 14 May 2009 State of the parties 5 comments
So if the downturn is unprecedented, why has then Treasury chosen this time to change its methodology to more allow for the experience of past economic recoveries than ever before?
The coming non-event – 2009 edition
Monday, 11 May 2009 Tactics 7 comments
Predictions of some officials in Washington, London and Paris that the economy would begin to recover within a year, are based on no other reason than they wouldn’t know what to do if it didn’t.
No left turn, either
Tuesday, 14 April 2009 State of the parties 6 comments
Clearly some markets are more evil than others.
