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By Mark Bahnisch on October 31, 2011
There’s been a fair bit of discussion around the traps about Adam Bandt’s statement yesterday about what the government should have done, or left undone, with regard to the Qantas dispute. Some of Bandt’s post seems to echo criticism from [...]
Posted in Economics, Featured, Markets, Policy, Politics, Transport | Tagged Adam Bandt, Alan Joyce, arbitration, Bob Brown, Fair Work Australia, FWA, greens, industrial dispute, Julia Gillard, left flank, nationalisation, Politics, qantas |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 9, 2009
Politically, much of the resilience of Kevin Rudd’s government in the face of the economic downturn is explicable by voter perceptions that the causes of the crisis are external to this country – the Global Financial Crisis. While that’s largely [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, USA | Tagged banking, banks, barack obama, credit crisis, economy, GFC, global financial crisis, ideology, Kevin Rudd, liquidity, nationalisation, nationisation, neo-liberalism, Paul Krugman, social democracy, Tim Keithner |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 22, 2009
In a piece in today’s Crikey sparked off by Kevin Rudd’s remarks about the difficulty Australian banks are having accessing foreign capital, Bernard Keane makes some good points about the response to the global financial crisis: Rudd’s rather anodyne response [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Policy | Tagged banks, bernard keane, economic policy, Economics, finance, financial sector, global financial crisis, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, Labor, nationalisation, neoliberalism, Paul Krugman, Rudd government |
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