By Mark Bahnisch on January 26, 2010
Responding to the loss of Ted Kennedy’s Massachussetts Senate seat to Republican Scott Brown, Barack Obama is set to announce a three year discretionary spending freeze. (Note that military spending is apparently compulsory not discretionary.) Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.Com thinks [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on October 22, 2008
As I’ve commented before, it’s always a bit difficult to keep track of Malcolm Turnbull’s economic narrative du jour. At least with Emo Man Brendan Nelson, we could always rely on undiluted populism with not even a minimal pretense at [...]
Posted in Economics, Howardia, Markets, Media | Tagged ALP, Brendon Nelson, deficits, economic policy, federal budget, fiscal policy, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, Ken Henry, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Colless, Malcolm Turnbull, News Limited columnists, Paul Keating, Peter Costello, recession, Rudd government, surplus, Wayne Swan |
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