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By Mark Bahnisch on October 14, 2008
Peter Martin is reporting that the government will be releasing an economic stimulus package today which will include something on pensions – to be announced at around midday. He suggests about $5 billion will be pumped into the economy. [Update [...]
Posted in Economics, Government, Politics | Tagged aged pension, ALP, economic crisis, economic stimulus, fiscal policy, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Medicare levy, pensions, Rudd government, Steve Fielding, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 13, 2008
SocProf over at The Global Sociology Blog and I must be reading the same things, and thinking along similar lines, because I had planned to link to precisely the same articles she highlights in an update to my recent post [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Disasters, Economics, Europe, Foreign Elections, International, Markets, Media, Nationalism, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged ALP, banks, Ben bernanke, Canadian election 2008, Capitalism, credit crisis, credit crunch, deregulation, economic crisis, economic policy, federal reserve, financial meltdown, financialisation, globalisation, gordon brown, Immanuel Wallerstein, interest rates, Kevin Rudd, krondatieff cycles, Labor, liquidity crisis, neo-liberalism, New Labour, political economy, politics & government, recession, regulation, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, stephen harper, stock markets, subprime mortgages, TARP, Tony Blair, us economy, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street, Will Hutton, world economy, world systems theory |
By Kim on October 13, 2008
With less than a month to go til America votes, barring any more mad game changing moves or even an October Surprise from Osama Bin Laden or the tattered remains of the Bush administration, all the smart money is on [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Foreign Elections, Nationalism, Race, USA | Tagged barack obama, base, Culture Wars, economic crisis, financial crisis, GOP, hate speech, hate talk express, John McCain, Lindsay Beyerstein, macaca moment, maverick, Peter Martin, Republican National Committee, RNC, sarah palin, us economy, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, youtube |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 9, 2008
Iceland may be a barometer for what’s changing in the world economy. It was only very recently that the Milton Friedman fan club was hailing Iceland as a “Nordic Tiger”, lauding its flat taxes and praising its “economic freedom”. “Economic [...]
Posted in Activism, Consumerism, Culture, Economics, Ethics, International, Markets, Media, Politics, Poverty, Sociology, USA | Tagged alan greenspan, ALP, Andrew Crook, banks, Ben bernanke, Bill Clinton, Capitalism, credit crisis, credit crunch, deregulation, economic crisis, economic policy, federal reserve, financial meltdown, financialisation, globalisation, gordon brown, Guy Rundle, Iceland, interest rates, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liquidity crisis, Mark Davis, Milton Friedman, neo-liberalism, political economy, politics & government, recession, regulation, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, stock markets, subprime mortgages, TARP, us economy, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street, world economy |
By Kim on October 7, 2008
As a bit of an update to my post last night, the Essential Research poll is now out, basically showing no change from last time. Possum has more on all the other questions asked. So, we can now be more [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, cash rate, Coalition, economic crisis, financial markets, interest rate cut, interest rates, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Newspoll, Polls, psephological analysis, Reserve Banks, Rudd government, Wall Street |
By Kim on October 7, 2008
I wonder if no Newspoll is bad news for the pollsters and those who own them. This must be the first Monday in living memory (well, since anyone started paying attention to this stuff before last year’s campaign) when there [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, cash rate, Coalition, economic crisis, financial markets, interest rate cut, interest rates, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Newspoll, Polls, psephological analysis, reserve bank, Rudd government, Wall Street |
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