Our Government’s Misguided Ignorance About Debt
On October 11, 2009, during the post GFC wash-up, American economist Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times under the heading, “Misguided Monetary Mentalities”: […]
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Taiwanese Australian Shan Ju Lin joins One Nation as a candidate, and her reasons are completely flawed
I have read all the media surrounding the candidacy of Taiwanese Australian Shan Ju Lin with One Nation. Her reasons for defending Pauline Hanson and […]
George Takei makes an impassioned call for Mexican Americans to stop Trump
Outspoken, witty and influential. Three words that can only describe a hero of all sorts, George Takei. But even though it has been forty four […]
MYEFO, a tale of incompetence
What a tale the 2016/17 December MYEFO tells. And it’s not what the Treasurer is saying. Firstly, Scott Morrison is projecting a return to surplus in […]
The world is changing…and not in a good way
It seems unnecessary even to say it, but that’s the truth of the matter. The world is changing and not in a good way. It’s the story […]
Do we now have a budget emergency?
The adults have been back in charge for over three years now. Our economy has been saved from the debt and deficit decimation and everything […]
Morrison is not up to the job
It is extraordinary how the mainstream media is protecting the Coalition government by not exposing the true state of the economy. Right now, the government […]
Not even Malcolm can help them now
Each and every week it seems, a minister in the Coalition government will shoot his/her mouth off, desperately trying to defend their ever more obvious […]
What Australia should fear most?
While most people in the world are scratching their heads in confusion and expressing their disgust at the election of Donald Trump as the next […]
Trump may be just what Australia Needs
Notwithstanding the shock-horror first reaction to Donald Trump’s stunning victory, when the dust settles, the next president of the USA has already shown some good […]
Money is a Scary Subject
The devaluation of peoples’ hard-earned money is what Australians fear most. People fear inflation. Never mind the crime rate, political corruption, nuclear wars, family violence, […]
Get off your arse and do something!
For a government that won office on the back of a “jobs and growth” mantra, how did she get away with this? Okay, it was […]
The False Debt-Scare ‘Own Goal’
So, inflation has gone down further to 1.3% for the year to September 2016 from 1.7% in the first quarter of 2016. This is against […]
A Dismal Tale of Failure
The latest Labour Force data has been released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and it is not pretty. Over the last 12 months, Australia […]
Is Q&A losing it?
If last week’s Q&A panellist Grace Collier is simplistic enough to think the unemployment problem would be solved by those looking for work simply starting […]