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Tag Archives: fiscalpolicy
Economic update: interest rates, monetary policy, fiscal policy, and coal prices
The election debate would benefit from a clear understanding of the factors affecting interest rates, now that the RBA has increased the cash rate from the “emergency level” of 0.1%, practically the lowest it could go, to the still extraordinarily … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged australia, budget, fed, fiscalpolicy, inflation, interestrates, monetarypolicy, moneysupply, qld, queensland, rba
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Livestream featuring US jobless claims, Aussie GDP + farewell to Tony Makin
I did a livestream earlier today with my regular co-host Tim Hughes on the latest economic news of the week, including the latest US initial jobless claims confirming a strong US economy, the impact of the omicron COVID-variant on equity … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged australia, coronavirus, covid-19, fiscalpolicy, gdp, inflation, monetarypolicy, unemployment, usa, usfed
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Podcast chat with Nicholas Gruen on freeing fiscal policy from political tinkering
The latest episode of my Economics Explored podcast features a conversation I had earlier this week with Nicholas Gruen of Lateral Economics regarding his recent Financial Times opinion piece on the need for an independent fiscal policy advisory body. In … Continue reading
Fiscal Stimulus with Fabrizio Carmignani – my latest Economics Explored podcast episode
Fiscal stimulus is very topical worldwide, with the new US President Joe Biden proposing a US$1.9 trillion COVID relief and stimulus package. And, in Australia, there is a debate occurring over how to support the tourism sector once JobKeeper finishes … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Macroeconomy
Tagged australia, cashhandouts, debt, debttogdp, deficits, fiscalpolicy, fiscalstimulus, inflation, jobkeeper, macroeconomicpolicy, macroeconomics, mmt, modernmonetarytheory, multiplier, ruddmoney, stimulus, surpluses, usa
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Michael Knox on Quantitative Easing as a long-term strategy
Australia’s money supply has surged over the year as the RBA has undertaken Quantitative Easing (QE), electronically printing new money to buy Australian and state government bonds and to lend to the banks (see the chart of M3, a measure … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged australia, fed, fiscalpolicy, inflation, macroeconomicpolicy, monetarypolicy, qe, quantitativeeasing, rba, reservebank, usa
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Frydenberg’s won’t-die-wondering Budget
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg delivered a strong speech tonight in handing down what I’d label as his won’t-die-wondering budget, or possibly as the Nixon-goes-to-China budget, a federal budget with an expected current financial year deficit of $214 billion and projected total … Continue reading
Posted in Budget
Tagged australia, budget, covid-19, debt, deficits, fiscalpolicy, jobmaker, qld, queensland, tax
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State gov’t economic responses to COVID-19 podcast episode
In my latest podcast episode, I elaborate on my opening remarks to the Queensland Parliamentary Inquiry on the state government’s economic response to COVID-19 on Monday. Among other things, I mention Joe Branigan and Henry Ergas’s new Menzies Research Centre … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Infrastructure, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged budget, cba, coronavirus, costbenefitanalysis, covid-19, debt, deficits, economics, finance, fiscalpolicy, infrastructure, smallbusiness
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Opening remarks to Qld Parliamentary Inquiry on economic response to COVID-19
Yesterday I was part of a panel of economic experts consulted by the Queensland Parliamentary Inquiry into the state government’s economic response to COVID-19. The notes I used for my opening remarks are reproduced below. The proceedings were broadcast via … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Health, Macroeconomy, Queensland Government
Tagged austerity, budget, cba, coronavirus, covid-19, debt, economics, fiscalpolicy, publichealth, regulation
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Upcoming Qld Parliamentary COVID-19 Inquiry appearance
Next Monday I’ll be appearing, via Zoom, at a public hearing of the Queensland Parliament’s Inquiry into the Queensland Government’s economic response to COVID-19. I’m a member of a Panel of Economic Experts which also includes UQ Professor John Quiggin, … Continue reading
Posted in Industry policy, Macroeconomy, Queensland Government
Tagged budget, cciq, coronavirus, covid-19, debt, fiscalpolicy, industrypolicy, publichealth, qld, queensland, stimulus, virgin, virginaustralia
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A Fiscal Vaccine for COVID-19 with Tony Makin – new podcast episode
In my latest podcast episode, I speak with Professor Tony Makin of Griffith University about his new CIS Policy Paper A Fiscal Vaccine for COVID-19. In Tony’s words: “the paper considers the resurgence of crude Keynesianism before highlighting risks of … Continue reading
Posted in Budget
Tagged crowdingout, debt, deficit, economy, employment, fiscalpolicy, funds, government, imf, infrastructure, interest rate, keynes, keynesian, keynesianism, money, spending, stimulus, treasury
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