It's the economy, stupid!
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In the world of macroeconomic data and policy, this is an important week. Yesterday saw the latest monetary policy decision from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), while today the Australian Bureau of…
The economic management record of Kevin Rudd as a prime minister is constantly under attack in this campaign. To put it bluntly, I fail to see why. As I already discussed in other articles and as I will…
Over at the 2013 election media panel Brian McNair asks a good question. “I wondered aloud, …, why the ALP had failed to take the credit for managing Australia through the GFC with relatively few adverse…
On Wednesday this week the Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey and Shadow Finance Minister Andrew Robb issued a strongly worded press statement that refuted the federal government’s claims that the opposition…
Tonight Kevin Rudd made an economic argument as to why he should be re-elected. He said that he saw his job as “doing everything I can do to protect your job”. He then went on to describe the stress and…
The statement of Tony Abbott strengthens my impression that candidates (and Mr. Abbott above all) confuse the tools of fiscal policy with its objectives. Tools vs. Objectives of fiscal policy The objectives…
In an effort to appeal to the small business sector Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today announced that if he is re-elected he would move to cut the red tape associated with GST reporting for small businesses…
You read it in The Australian first - two weeks ago I indicated a problem with the Coalition’s paid parental leave (PPL) scheme. “The final complication is how this levy will interact with dividend imputation…
This TV Ad touches on a number of interesting elements of the economic policy platform of the Coalition. One that has caught my attention and on which I would like to comment here is the promise “to generate…
Here we are within four weeks of the federal election and the two major parties small business policies are now taking shape. Much of what is in these policy packages is not new, but it might be worth…