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Future Funds or Future Eaters? The Case Against a Sovereign Wealth Fund for Australia
Robert Carling, Stephen KirchnerFebruary 20, 2012PM126

This paper considers the arguments for and against greater use of a sovereign wealth fund...

The taxman cometh
Robert CarlingFebruary 17, 2012

The Gillard government insists it will put the federal budget back in the black in...

‘Building a new economy’ – really, Prime Minister?
Robert CarlingFebruary 10, 2012

Throughout economic history, people have fretted about where the jobs will come from to replace...

Foreigners are not going to take our food
Stephen KirchnerFebruary 10, 2012

The debate over foreign investment in Australian agricultural land has seen the merger of capital...

Give austerity a chance
Robert Carling, Stephen KirchnerFebruary 8, 2012Australian Financial Review

Successful fiscal consolidations depend on cuts in government expenditure, write Stephen Kirchner and Robert Carling....

Car industry handouts are childish
Alexander PhilipatosJanuary 27, 2012

An article in the Australian Financial Review last week opened with a question to the...

Adam Smith and Why He Matters Today
Paul Oslington, David M. HartDecember 7, 2023OP199
Adam Smith, the Scottish philosopher and economist, is one of the most significant figures to...
Debunking Degrowth
Gene TunnySeptember 7, 2023AP54
In a country with a growing population, such as Australia, a policy of degrowth would...
A Future Without Future Funds
Dimitri BurshteinAugust 10, 2023PP52

In 1984, Milton Friedman reminded us that “there is nothing so permanent as a temporary...

The Return of Inflation: What It Means for Australia
Warren HoganFebruary 28, 2022AP33
Inflation is rising around the world, the sting in the tail of the pandemic economic...
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The End of Monetary Policy?
Warren HoganOctober 29, 2020AP16

Monetary policy is not the answer to our economic problems; and central bank actions could...

A Fiscal Vaccine for COVID-19
Tony MakinJune 10, 2020PP30

The fiscal response to the Covid-19 crisis ensures that the federal and state governments will...

A euro power play that backfired
Oliver Marc HartwichAugust 17, 2011Business Spectator

To fully appreciate the subtle ironies of the euro crisis it takes a sense for...

Value cut adrift in a sea of paper money
August 16, 2011The Australian Financial Review

Paper money backed only by credulity marks its 40th anniversary this week. But as the...

Setting a European time bomb
Oliver Marc HartwichAugust 10, 2011Business Spectator

The announcement by Standard & Poor’s to downgrade US government debt may have been historic...

US Congress swapped a crisis yesterday for a bigger crisis tomorrow
August 9, 2011Crikey

I provoked a tirade of abuse from Crikey readers in the past fortnight when I...

Dollars must flow if numbers to grow
July 29, 2011The Age

KEVIN Rudd's plan for a ''big Australia'' quickly turned into a ''sustainable Australia'' once Julia...

No reason or evidence will cure US of its debt fetish
Adam CreightonJuly 26, 2011Crikey

Ben Bernanke says it would be a “huge calamity”. I say it would be a...

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Submission to the inquiry into the Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions and Other Measures Bill
Robert CarlingMay 14, 2024CIS
Submission to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee in relation to its inquiry into the Better...
Principles and recommendations for tax reform – CIS submission National Reform Summit
Simon Cowan, Robert Carling, Henry ErgasAugust 27, 2015CIS Submission

The slant towards cutting taxes before 2010 was welcome, but for such an approach to...

Submission to the National Commission of Audit
Alexander Philipatos, Jennifer Buckingham OAM, Jeremy Sammut, Robert Carling, Simon Cowan, Stephen Kirchner, Trisha JhaApril 1, 2014T30.08

The federal government’s Commission of Audit (CoA) was established in 2013 to review the performance...

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