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Going long on European deja vu
Oliver Marc HartwichNovember 3, 2011The Business Spectator

Markets were euphoric, political leaders relieved. “Europe has taken a step forward. Europe and Greece...

Occupy what?
Oliver Marc HartwichOctober 21, 2011

The Occupy Wall Street movement has polarised public opinion: Either you regard the protestors as...

Stepping stones to an EU inferno
Oliver Marc HartwichOctober 5, 2011Business Spectator

Germany is not a particularly difficult country to understand – provided you speak some German....

RBA pay: why Glenn Stevens is not Elizabeth Taylor
September 20, 2011Crikey

An exchange between Sir Humphrey Appleby and the Minister of Administrative Affairs in the early...

Sighs of relief heard from the bankers’ bunkers
September 16, 2011The Age

BANKS might have feared big changes after the global financial crisis. Millions around the world...

Rate it yourself
Adam CreightonSeptember 16, 2011

What is causing the housing affordability crisis in Australia? Land restrictions and low interest rates...

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...
AP16
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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