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Our research explains and advocates why a sound financial and monetary system is critical for economic prosperity.

Scapegoating investors won’t slow up house prices
Stephen KirchnerJuly 10, 2014The Australian Financial Review

Australia’s capital house prices rose 10 per cent last financial year, with an even stronger...

Fascinating fiscal facts
Robert CarlingMay 30, 2014

The Australian Bureau of Statistics this week released its annual compilation of data on spending,...

Europe holds its breath for ECB action
Stephen KirchnerApril 11, 2014Business Spectator

European Central Bank president Mario Draghi last week gave the strongest indication yet that the...

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...

States heading for a debt problem
Robert CarlingMarch 27, 2014Open Forum

Details of the expansion of Commonwealth government debt, past and projected, have been given a...

States on a slippery debt slope
Robert CarlingMarch 20, 2014The Australian Financial Review

The federal government's mid-year budget review grabbed headlines by revealing a level of debt growing...

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...

Hewson manifesto was ahead of its time
Stephen KirchnerSeptember 15, 2009The Australian

Revelations in Paul Kelly’s The March of the Patriots that then Reserve Bank Governor Bernie...

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...

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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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