ricardian ambivalence

what’s inflation?

The post-Q3 CPI sell-side and (typically well informed) media chatter baffled me. First of all, it seemed to confuse inflation

Partly because I don’t know how to relax, I was doing some maths on a recent holiday. My better half

Mark has put together some very good analysis of the unemployment rate and GDI. I have found similar results -myself,

Macrobusiness reports that NAB and CBA have both trimmed only 20bps from floating mortgages following the RBA’s 25bps cut to

The RBA lowered their target for the overnight cash rate by 25bps to 3.25%, effective 3 October 2012. Their statement

The homebrew package manager for mac is seriously awesome. Setting it up is a bit tricky if you don’t know

The slowdown in global growth, combined with an ongoing decline in domestic profitability, seems sure to see the RBA guide

The hoo-ha about child labour in the manufacture of Sherrin AFL footballs strikes me as massively wrong-headed. The girl in

A recent poll suggested that just over half of China’s citizens thought the next few years would see a “military

Presumably they are all at Monsanto…

The Australian’s Uren wrote on Monday that the RBA was almost certain to cut in response to QE3. My guess

The Washington Post is carrying an interview with Michael Woodford on monetary policy. On levels targets: The idea that purely