• Government Spending

Governments spend taxpayers’ money on a wide range of programmes from education to defence and from welfare to infrastructure. Yet there can be too much of a good thing, and some government spending is just wasteful. How can we ensure that taxpayers are getting value for money?

Covert methods to curb criticism
Alexander PhilipatosAugust 26, 2011

The government has found a rather creative way of limiting policy criticism. New changes to...

A poisoned chalice of EU power
Oliver Marc HartwichAugust 25, 2011Business Spectator

The much hyped meeting last week between Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy would have made...

Who needs credit ratings? They should be optional
August 23, 2011Crikey

Banks and investors should thrive or die by the quality of their own assessments of...

America and Europe jump together
Oliver Marc HartwichAugust 19, 2011

Reading news from both sides of the North Atlantic, it looks as if America and...

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...

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