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Bubble Poppers: Monetary Policy and the Myth of ‘Bubbles’ in Asset Prices
Stephen KirchnerMarch 28, 2009PM 93

Since the boom and bust in technology stock prices around the turn of the century,...

MONETARY POLICY AND ‘BUBBLE’ MYTHS
March 12, 2009

The Reserve Bank should remember the lessons of the past and should not second-guess the...

Plan delivers little bang for very big bucks
Stephen KirchnerFebruary 4, 2009The Australian

When it comes to activist fiscal policy, it seems that nothing succeeds like failure. The...

Government Intervention in Mortgage Finance: The Case Against ‘AussieMac’
Stephen KirchnerSeptember 8, 2008IA99

The sub-prime mortgage crisis in the United States that began in August 2007 has had...

Milton Friedman: A Tribute
Maurice NewmanDecember 4, 2007OP106

Nobel-Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman died in late 2006. In March 2007, the CIS hosted a...

Breaking the Trade Stalemate: What Are Australia’s Options?
Wolfgang KasperFebruary 12, 2001IA18

Australia’s best hope of long-term trade liberalisation lies in signing a free trade agreement with...

Trans-Atlantic Fiscal Follies: The Sequel
Oliver Marc Hartwich, Robert CarlingNovember 30, 2011PF21

What started as the US subprime crisis became the global financial crisis and has now...

Trans-Atlantic Fiscal Follies: The Sequel
Adam Creighton, Oliver Marc Hartwich, Robert CarlingAugust 30, 20111

The GFC is back. What started as the US subprime crisis became the global financial...

Ludwig von Mises-Primer
Eamonn ButlerDecember 16, 2010OP120

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

Shooting the Messenger: The Ban on Short Selling
John M. Green, Stephen Kirchner, Robert BianchiFebruary 1, 2010PF19

In September 2008, governments around the world instituted bans on the short sale of equity...

Fiscal Fallacies : The Failure of Activist Fiscal Policy
Stephen KirchnerOctober 14, 2009PF18

The global financial crisis that emerged in 2007 has turned into a major, worldwide economic...

Emissions Tax: The Least Worst Option
Luke MalpassJuly 16, 2009IA113

Following warnings from mainstream scientists, politicians around the world have rushed to implement a range...

When ‘25% off’ is not enough
Robert CarlingMarch 8, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Labor’s plans for negative gearing and dividend franking credit refunds have stirred up a hornet’s...

Principle vs revenue in dividend tax furore
Robert CarlingFebruary 15, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

The furore over dividend franking credit refunds is bringing out the worst in our politicians....

Neglect of young people a super problem
Eugenie JosephFebruary 15, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Once again, politics in Canberra has triumphed over good policy — with young Australians the...

Bank culture must be built on moral fibre
Eugenie JosephFebruary 10, 2019The Newcastle Herald

Treating your customers fairly can’t just be a legal obligation, it must become a moral...

Progressives reluctant to recognise poverty progress
Anis RezaeFebruary 8, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Is the declining rate of global poverty simply a neoliberal lie, spread by the likes...

Socialist utopia is complete fantasy
Thomas CoppelJanuary 25, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Views that Australia will turn into a utopia under socialism are wildly uninformed, and that...

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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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