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By Mark Bahnisch on August 18, 2009
Sometimes, in politics, it might be better to remain silent. Glenn Milne’s latest intervention, talking up a line from Liberal MP Scott Morrison, has to be one of the lamest ever political attack lines. [For those who don't want to [...]
Posted in Economics, Media, Politics | Tagged climate change legislation, economic management, economic policy, ets, Glenn Milne, Glenn Stevens, interest rates, Ken Henry, Kevin Rudd, Lindsay Tanner, Media, reserve bank, Rudd government, Sinclair Davidson, Treasury, Wayne Swan |
By Kim on December 19, 2008
End of year reflection on the state of politics and the nation type articles can be interesting. They can be tedious rehashes of trivia and reinventions of an already distorted reality to prove punditarian narratives r us and are ace [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Economics, Energy, Federal Elections, Foreign Elections, International, Markets, Media, Policy, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged Activism, barack obama, bernard keane, citizen engagement, Climate change, cprs, economic management, emissions trading, Glenn Stevens, interest rates, John Hewson, Kevin Rudd, neoliberalism, political sociology, Politics, public policy, reserve bank, Rick Warren, Rudd government, US election 2008, white paper, year in review |
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 |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 23, 2008
The Coalition’s apparent belief that everything that they read in the (Australian) newspaper must be true has got them into all sorts of trouble this week. The bizarre spectacle of a gaggle of Liberal Senators piling on Treasury Secretary Ken [...]
Posted in Economics, Ethics, Law, Markets, Media | Tagged deposit guarantee, Glenn Stevens, Ken Henry, Malcolm Turnbull, Michelle Grattan, reserve bank, Senate Estimates, Treasury Secretary |
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