By Mark Bahnisch on July 8, 2009
A number of economists, including the blogosphere’s own John Quiggin and Nicholas Gruen, today released a letter in Canberra calling for a new enquiry into the financial system. [See the hyperlinks for the text of the letter and commentary from [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Policy, Politics | Tagged Australia Post, banking, banks, bernard keane, competition, Crikey, economic policy, financial system, GFC, ideology, John Quiggin, lending, neo-liberalism, Nicholas Gruen, Rudd government, Wallis Inquiry |
By Robert Merkel on May 7, 2009
Last November, we had a fascinating discussion about the then-impending recession’s effects on the LP readership community. Six months on, the macroscale picture in Australia is not great, but not as calamitous as it might have been either. Despite a [...]
Posted in Economics, Policy, Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged banking, conferences, GFC, recession |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 9, 2009
Politically, much of the resilience of Kevin Rudd’s government in the face of the economic downturn is explicable by voter perceptions that the causes of the crisis are external to this country – the Global Financial Crisis. While that’s largely [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, USA | Tagged banking, banks, barack obama, credit crisis, economy, GFC, global financial crisis, ideology, Kevin Rudd, liquidity, nationalisation, nationisation, neo-liberalism, Paul Krugman, social democracy, Tim Keithner |
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