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Failed US policies? Not in my back yard
Alexander PhilipatosMay 6, 2011

Earlier this week, when the Aussie dollar reached an all-time high of $1.10, industry leaders...

Reform a boon to all in the money game
May 5, 2011The Age

Imagine if interior designers were ''free''. They were paid not by clients but by commissions...

A failure of political leadership
Stephen KirchnerApril 11, 2011The Straits Times

Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan's rejection of Singapore Exchange's (SGX) bid for the Australian Securities Exchange...

GDP no real guide to wealth or welfare
Adam CreightonMarch 31, 2011The Australian

After the tsunami slammed the Japanese coast, economists were scrambling to update their forecasts for...

A forgotten financial failure
Stephen KirchnerMarch 16, 2011Online Opinion

The regulatory responses to the global financial crisis have for the most part been conditioned...

Ludwig von Mises-Primer
Eamonn ButlerDecember 16, 2010OP120

Ludwig von Mises was one of the greatest economists and political scientists of the twentieth...

Setting the Record Straight: Free Trade and the WTO
David RobertsonSeptember 4, 2000IA15

By allowing social issues into the WTO agenda using tenuous links to trade policy, the...

How Markets Work: Disequilibrium, Entrepreneurship and Discovery
Israel KirznerOctober 12, 1999OP64

Mainstream economic theory starts from the assumption of ‘equilibrium’, under which markets are perfectly competitive....

Reconnecting Compassion and Charity
Roger KerrJanuary 1, 1999OP67

Supporters of big government and the welfare state regularly accuse their opponents of lacking ‘compassion’....

Rear Vision on Trade Policy: Wrong Way, Go Forward
Ron DuncanSeptember 25, 1998IA5

Pig farmers seeking to stop imports of pork into Australia are standing candidates in 15...

Reforming Central Banking
Stephen KirchnerMarch 1, 1997PM36

   

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Markets, Morals and Community
October 1, 1996OP59

Few people today doubt the market’s contribution to prosperity, but still there are powerful intellectual...

Economic policy must re-earn our respect
Stephen KirchnerJanuary 20, 2010Business Spectator

Financial market pundits in Australia and abroad are thoroughly divided on the inflation outlook. Some...

Big spending, poor results
Stephen KirchnerDecember 16, 2009The Australian

Treasury Secretary Ken Henry observed in a recent speech to the Whitlam Institute that the...

End of trend is nigh for central bank sales of gold
Stephen KirchnerNovember 17, 2009The Age

It may seem odd that simply transferring ownership of existing above-ground stocks should make a difference...

US dollar down but not out as kingpin of global finance
Stephen KirchnerNovember 5, 2009The Australian

Recent US dollar weakness has given added impetus to the sentiment that one hedge fund...

The US deficit canary has rattled the cage in warning of dire eventualities
Robert CarlingOctober 27, 2009The Age

Imagine our Government’s finances being in such bad shape that the Treasury sounded a public...

Policymakers Sold Australia Short
Stephen KirchnerOctober 14, 2009The Australian Financial Review

Key economic data, including GDP growth and the unemployment rate, have come in better than...

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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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