Tag Archives: Economics

Time to Quit Doing what Ain’t Working?

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Anthony

  Politicians – for the most part, anyway – aren’t stupid. But, like the rest of we mere mortals, they’re apt to do stupid things. And they’re at their stupidest when when their reason for doing something is based on … Continue reading →

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Economists, nice people but what are they good for?

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Anthony

  Regular readers, lovely and intelligent folk that you are, might remember that a few episodes ago, I went off in search – unsuccessfully, as it turned out –  of the economy. Prominent on the list of people I didn’t … Continue reading →

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*Trickle Up or Trickle Down… Defying Gravity

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Anthony

‘Same policies, different managers,’ used to pretty much sum up Oz politics in recent years. Not any more though. Polarisation is on a roll. Problem is, in a post Cold War world, terms like Left and Right no longer mean a whole … Continue reading →

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