Comments on: Essential Research Labor 58-42; Interest rates cut by 100 basis points

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:36:21 +0000

Will try that. Thankd, Nick. It looks like an interesting poll.

By: Nick Caldwell

Nick Caldwell — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:38:00 +0000

Paul, it seems to be a PDF file, so can you download it and read/zoom it in an external PDF reader?

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:15:11 +0000

Poll print far too small to read so I can’t comment and can’t make it larger by zooming.

By: Ambigulous

Ambigulous — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:47:15 +0000

but not an original, Lefty E.

There was a clue a couple of days ago that RBA might go higher than 0.5%, when a senior official said, “it’s not the official rate we look at, it’s the rates the banks actually charge their customers”.

So taking into account the much discussed likelihood that banks would not pass on the full RBA cut, it seemed more likely the RBA would go higher than 0.5%.

Will the drop of 0.8% have an immediate effect on real estate prices?? What are the time lags, usually? What effect on small businesses? What effects on “mortgage stress”?

By: Paul Norton

Paul Norton — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:43:57 +0000

Also worth noting this result of the Essential Research poll:

Q. From what you have read and heard do you think the Federal Government plans to tackle climate change go too far, don’t go far enough or are about right?

Go too far 16%
Don’t go far enough 45%
About right 25%
No opinion 14%

The likes of Christopher Pearson, Andrew Bolt and Miranda Devine obviously think the Coalition can win with 16 per cent of the vote. Let’s hope their influence over Coalition policy increases.

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:30:33 +0000

“A wunch of bankers”

wins my collective noun award for 2008.

By: Ambigulous

Ambigulous — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:27:51 +0000

A wunch of bankers, eh, Lefty E? Guilt by association?? Hell, if Obama is tarred by the Weather Underground brush, Talcum must be feathered by the Merchant Banker brush.

Or is that a feather duster? At least Horatio Nelson would’ve giggled a bit as the feather duster so lightly caressed his 3am gutter-lovin’ ear studs, and the………

Roosters anyone?

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:16:16 +0000

Do you mean ‘former banker’ Talcum Turncoat? Thats ‘former banker’ Talcum Turncoat, former banker Talcum. The turncoat. Im juts saying he’s a former banker, former banker former banker. For no reason. Not trying to create negative associations.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:44:25 +0000

At least Nelson was funny!

By: Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:42:09 +0000

The performances of Turnbull and Bishop have been awful and achieved in such a short space of time. And if Swan was able to beat Turnbull as preferred economic manager (according to polls) how much more is he going to shine against a Julie Bishop who barely seems to have a clue.

Turnbull hamstrung by the Minchins and white-anting Howard and Costello has little scope to do anything except act like a a silver tailed Nelson.