ricardian ambivalence

The political economy of carbon

In Treasury Secretary Parkinson’s post budget speech to the ABE, there is a flight of carbon-price fancy that made me

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

I have spent the weekend updating some old code, and as usual it’s a bit of a mess … One

Capital resumed pouring into Japan in the week ended 18 May 2013, suggesting that my ‘reversal’ call was premature —

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

The AFR’s Alan Mitchell, who called the May cut as well as anyone, has a note out today saying that

Today’s RBA minutes strike me as a fairly easy document to approach. At their May meeting the RBA upset the

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

Net capital outflows from Japan continued in the week to 11 May 2013. Japan continued to move capital into foreign