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Don’t cry tears for Auto sector RnD

The exit of Ford from Australian vehicle manufacture has flushed the rent seeking club out once again. Their arguments range

The other part of the Treasury Structural budget estimates working paper is the PBO study — both were published on 22

The Australian Treasury has released new structural budget deficit estimates, updating my favourite bulletin article (MacDonald &c.) of the last

One of the biggest traps in Australian economics over the past decade has been worrying about non-tradable inflation. I fell

Following the Hilsenrath article on tapering, there has been a lot of talk about the possibility that the Fed’s next

Some time ago we updated a treasury stimulus analysis and posted the results. This has been picked up in the

The proximate release of the Australian and New Zealand Budgets has prompted some comparisons between the two (see this odd

A key reason for the AUD60bn increase in deficits in the 2013-14 budget (relative to the 2012-13 MYEFO) was the

The 2013-14 budget has been released, and it shows the (fairly) predictable consequences of the decline in the terms of

Budget forecast for 2012-13 deficit prints at 19.4bn in 2013-14 budget — only 600m from my most recent forecast! Deficit

Following on from yesterday’s (somewhat contentious) post, I am going to compare Australia with eight other nations that are rated

With Australia’s 2013-14 budget only a day away, I figured it’s time to have a look at Australia relative to