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By Mark Bahnisch on October 20, 2008
One of the most puzzling lines Malcolm Turnbull came out with as shadow Treasurer earlier in the year was his claim that Labor had talked inflation into existence. This was part of some sort of complex juggling act which allowed [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Media | Tagged economic management, economic policy, financial crisis, fiscal policy, fiscal stimulus, Insiders, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 16, 2008
Just before last year’s federal election, I read Neal Blewett’s Cabinet Diaries. The book is a good read, but I was also interested in reminding myself – in the dying days of the Howard Era – what a Labor government [...]
Posted in Economics, Howardia, Markets, Poverty | Tagged ALP, economic management, economic policy, economic stimulus, financial crisis, fiscal policy, fiscal stimulus, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Neal Blewett, Paul Keating, pensioners, pensions, Rudd government, social justice, stimulus package, surplus, unemployed, welfare benefits, welfare policy |
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 7, 2008
The McCain campaign has gone into full on negative smear mode, with Governor Sarah Palin playing the traditional attack role of the Vice-Presidential candidate. Apparently Obama has been consorting with terrorists, because he once knew a member of the Weathermen [...]
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, Bill Ayers, Culture Wars, domestic terrorism, financial crisis, John McCain, negative campaigning, Rev. Wright, sarah palin, Sociology, us economy, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street, weatherman, Weathermen |
By Kim on September 25, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/bill_clinton.jpeg" align=left I’m going to go out on a limb here. Bill Clinton is the only genuine political talent that creaking heap of donkeys, the beloved Democratic Party, has produced in an age. Damn that Twenty-Second Amendment. Obama plays [...]
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, USA | Tagged american election 2008, barack obama, Bill Clinton, Bush administration, Democratic Party, Democrats, financial crisis, financial markets, GOP, Henry Farrell, henry paulson, John McCain, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 22, 2008
There’s an informative links post at Obsidian Wings from hilzoy. And a bit of food for thought: I do not want to hear people tell me that regulation cripples the economy, unless they are willing to admit that a lack [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets | Tagged ALP, banks, economic management, economic policy, financial crisis, financial markets, henry paulson, IMF, inflation, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, market bailout, Peter Costello, TARP, us treasury, Wall Street, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 19, 2008
As a supplement to earlier posts on the sociology of the global financial crisis from Kim and dk.au, I thought I’d note something very interesting written by Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber. Farrell traces the shift in paradigm in the [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, Ben bernanke, Bill Clinton, Bush administration, City of London, credit crisis, economic sociology, financial crisis, financial markets, financial regulation, globalisation, gordon brown, Henry Farrell, henry paulson, John McCain, Jon Cruddas, Labour, neoliberalism, New Labour, political economy, political sociology, Robert Skidelsky, social democracy, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science, sub prime crisis, US election 2008, us treasury, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
By Kim on September 18, 2008
As a bit of a follow up to the recent posts here on the crisis in the financial markets, and in particular dk.au’s piece on the way “facts” work in collective economic behaviour, I wanted to draw attention, firstly, to [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Sociology | Tagged credit crisis, economic sociology, financial crisis, financial markets, financial regulation, political economy, Robert Skidelsky, sociology of science, Wall Street |
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