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- Premier’s 2016 Lodge dinner remark to Turnbull highlighted Vertical Fiscal Imbalance problem
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Tag Archives: uk
Matt Ridley’s How Innovation Works is recommended reading
This weekend I finished reading Matt Ridley’s excellent How Innovation Works, which makes a compelling case in favour of leaving innovation largely to the free market, rather than having it guided and supported by government. Ridley is a great storyteller … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged airship, australia, bhp, corrugatediron, dingoes, dogs, innovation, intellectualproperty, ip, melbourne, r101, regulation, uk
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Catch up on COVID-19 with Joe Branigan
I fear that the draconian stage 4 restrictions in Victoria and Queensland’s re-imposition of the hard border with NSW are over-the-top, disproportionate policy responses that will cause unwarranted economic and social harm, both short and long-term. Earlier today, I chatted … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy, Queensland Government, Tourism
Tagged australia, coronavirus, covid-19, economics, economy, employment, jobs, qld, queensland, sweden, uk, usa, victoria, work
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Highlights of recent coronavirus-related podcast episodes
In my latest Economics Explained podcast episode, I review some of the big issues covered in recent episodes on coronavirus. Brisbane-based businessman Tim Hughes of Urban Ergo and I react to excerpts of recent episodes and discuss the important policy … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged australia, bailouts, coronaimmunity, coronavirus, covid-19, covidsafe, debt, mmt, modernmonetarytheory, moneyprinting, nz, quantitytheoryofmoney, radicaluncertainty, uk, usa
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Forty years after Thatcher’s election – CIS event in Brisbane on Thursday 2 May
This Friday, the 3rd of May, is the 40th anniversary of the 1979 UK election which saw Margaret Thatcher become Prime Minister. It is doubtful that any UK Prime Minister since Thatcher will loom as large in our collective memory … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged britain, cis, conservativeparty, conservatives, labour, monetarism, monetarypolicy, privatisation, thatcher, tories, uk
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Keynes’s Economic Consequences of the Peace in its centennial year
I recorded this video yesterday morning on some possible reading/re-reading for the Australia Day long weekend: John Maynard Keynes’s Economic Consequences of the Peace, now in its centennial year. You can find the book’s full text online. The book was published … Continue reading
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Tagged 1919, australia, germany, keynes, paris, treatyofversailles, uk, us, WWI
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Qld “gets its mojo back” on international visitors
Mission Beach-based economist Pete Faulkner has great coverage of the latest international short-term arrivals and departures data for August from the ABS in his latest post: International arrivals still growing; QLD gets its mojo back while Tassie slows As Pete … Continue reading
Posted in Tourism, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, australia, china, internationalvisitors, nsw, qld, queensland, r, tidyverse, tourism, uk, us, victoria
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Upcoming ESA Qld event: How economics improved the world in 2016
2016 has not been a good year for economics. Brexit and the US Presidential election result both implied a rejection of free trade and free markets by large numbers of people in the UK and US. Economists have learned that … Continue reading
Posted in qut, Retail trade, Uncategorized
Tagged brexit, economics, economist, esaqld, freemarkets, freetrade, hayek, qld, retailtrade, tradinghours, uk, us
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Ironic that Trump may just be the shock financial markets needed
The election of Donald Trump as US President is undoubtedly a huge shock to global financial markets. Even though it is highly uncertain what policies he will ultimately adopt and can get passed by Congress, it is highly probable he … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged australia, bondmarket, bonds, economy, trump, uk, us, yields
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Inquiry should consider contestability and privatisation of QR services
One of the alleged benefits of public provision of services is that levels of service and reliability are higher than for private provision, but the crisis engulfing Queensland Rail at the moment suggests we should question that purported benefit. It … Continue reading
Posted in Queensland Rail, Transport, Uncategorized
Tagged contestability, efficiency, franchising, privatisation, qr, queenslandrail, reliability, uk, victoria
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After botched 2016 Census, let’s have it every ten years and properly resource and manage it
The compliance cost to the community of the upcoming Census has been magnified by the anxiety its botched implementation is causing Australians (see this Fairfax report on Census chaos). It appears many elderly Australians have been surprised by the letters … Continue reading
Posted in Population, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, australia, census, labourforcesurvey, uk, us
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