ricardian ambivalence

Pity the fools

I have been sad to see the treatment of Peter Diamond throughout the nomination process. Read his riposte here The

I know only a little about statistics and almost nothing about climate science, so I’m keeping clear of the debate

Judith Sloan hit the nail on the head in her Catallaxy post on Rory’s letter to the AFR – regarding

Barnaby gets a bad rap because he has views that are unpopular and doesn’t try very hard to hide them

Many of the (economic) objections to my argument that we ought to be cutting spending faster, and saving more of

the RBA has a 2.5% inflation target, and believes that there is no long run trade-off between inflation, unemployment and

My mate Chris Joye has been hosting an enjoyable debate on the budget on his excellent blog. Until now, it

Some (including new Treasury Sec Dr Parkinson) claim that we should not pull back on fiscal policy any harder lest

Getting a fix on the situation in retail has been difficult of late. The monthly (nominal) retail trade survey has

I’m getting a few comments about the decline of the manufacturing sector. I love this topic because it allows me

at least, not according to Treasury

A fair criticism of how I have framed my discussion of the budget is that the objective of fiscal policy