By Kim on February 10, 2009
From the Quadrant blog: The world’s economies are not suffering from a lack of demand, and the right policy response is not a demand stimulus. Increased public sector spending will only add to the market confusions that already exist… There’s [...]
Posted in Economics | Tagged austrian economics, economic policy, Economics, free markets, ideology, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, neo-liberalism, New Deal, Quadrant, Steven Kates, stimulus package |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 16, 2008
The G20 Summit has come and gone, and if today’s coverage in the Australian press is any indication, the most important of the tea leaves to be read is whether George W. Bush snubbed Kevin Rudd over the “Kirribilli leak”. [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged Adolf Berle, australian media, barack obama, Bretton Woods, Capitalism, derivatives, FDR, financial markets, financialisation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free markets, G20, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, Great Depression, international finance, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, neo-liberalism, New Deal, political economy, regulation, securitisation, Sociology, summit |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 2, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fdr.jpg" align=left One point of view that’s been expressed about the financial markets crisis can be summed up by something I read at Crooks & Liars today: Have you noticed that every person suddenly knows everything there is to [...]
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Poverty, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, blogosphere, credit crisis, economic policy, economic sociology, Economics, FDR, financial markets, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Karl Polanyi, New Deal, New New Deal, political economy, Sociology, TARP, us economy, US election 2008, us treasury, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
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