By Mark Bahnisch on November 11, 2009
In a second piece of good news to come from the Federal government today, the Productivity Commission’s mooted changes to the import regime for books have not been accepted. The argument about consumer benefit was always spurious – the purported [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Markets | Tagged australian literature, Australian writers, book retailers, Books, Writers & Writing, consumers, craig emerson, cultural policy, cultural production, free trade agreement, Guy Rundle, ideology, Kim Carr, libraries, literary production, market concentration, neo-liberalism, parallel importation, productivity commission, publishing, writers, Writers & Writing, writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 20, 2008
The stock market has lost 51% of its value since its peak, a decline we’re told now exceeds the destruction of value seen in 1987. On the ABC News tonight, Alan Kohler grimly pointed to an index (tradeable, I think, [...]
Posted in Disasters, Economics, Markets, Sociology, USA | Tagged Alan Kohler, ALP, ASX, bear market, black monday, consumers, consumption, credit card, Crikey, debt, deflation, economic policy, equities, Glenn Stevens, global financial crisis, inflation, Kevin Rudd, Keynes, recession, reserve bank, Rudd government, stock market, unemployment, wages, Wayne Swan, working hours |
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