By Mark Bahnisch on January 26, 2010
A number of US financial blogs are reporting that Ben Bernanke faces a chance of failure to be confirmed by the American Senate for a second term in office. James Bianco at The Big Picture has all the details, and [...]
Posted in International, Markets, Politics, USA | Tagged alan greenspan, barack obama, Ben bernanke, central banks, Fed, federal reserve, global finance, global financial crisis, gordon brown, health care, ideology, James Bianco, Markets, Massachussetts, Naked Capitalism, neo-liberalism, Politics, Scott Brown, Senate, The Big Picture, us economy, US politics, Wall Street |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 20, 2010
News is just coming in that Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts has been lost by the Democrat, Martha Coakley, to the Republicans’ Scott Brown. FiveThirtyEight.Com has the margin at 52-47 and that blog will be well worth watching for [...]
Posted in Culture, Foreign Elections, Politics, USA | Tagged anti-politics, barack obama, David Hirst, Democrats, filibuster, GFC, living standards, Main Street, Martha Coakley, Massachussetts, nate silver, Republicans, Scott Brown, Senate, special election, super majority, Ted Kennedy, unemployment, US politics, Wall Street |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 8, 2010
In a recent post, I observed that the momentum for systemic reform and coordinated international regulation of the financial sector, pursued through the G20 in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, appeared to have stalled. In that context, it [...]
Posted in Economics, Elections, International, Markets, Politics, USA | Tagged banks, Capitalism, dominique strauss-kahn, G20, GFC, global finance, global financial crisis, IMF, inside story, John Langmore, Senate, tobin tax, transactions, US midterm elections 2010, US politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 22, 2009
As I observed in an earlier post, the instant response from Australian industry and business groups to the Copenhagen schemozzle was to call for a delay of the CPRS or yet more handouts in the guise of compensation. They’re unlikely [...]
Posted in Climate change, Elections, International, Policy, Politics | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, business, Climate change, Coalition, cprs, domestic politics, election, ets, industry, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, polluters, Rudd government, Senate, The Greens |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 11, 2009
One of the points I’ve made over and over again, before, during and after the 2007 election was that the electorate had tired of the noise level; the ranting and raving and constant theatrics of the Howard government. In voting [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, business, Coalition, Elections, electoral reform, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Lateline, Liberal Party, LNP, Nick Minchin, populism, public funding, Scott Morrison, Senate, Terry Flew, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 2, 2009
The CPRS has been defeated in the Senate, with only two Liberal Senators supporting the legislation – Judith Troeth from Victoria and Sue Boyce from Queensland. This is the first fruits of Tony Abbott’s leadership. The potential questions are many: [...]
Posted in Climate change, Politics | Tagged Climate change, cprs, defeat, ets, Judith Troeth, Kevin Rudd, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, Rudd government, Senate, spill, Sue Boyce, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 27, 2009
It’s become something of a race to the finish between the Liberal leadership spill and the CPRS’ passage through the Senate. I haven’t seen much discussion out there of the implications of a defeat for the ETS bill. Those who [...]
Posted in Climate change, Politics | Tagged ALP, cprs, ets, Ian Macfarlane, Joe Hockey, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, Malcolm Turnbull, Penny Wong, Rudd government, Senate, spill |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 13, 2009
I haven’t had a chance to look at the amendments The Greens are putting forward to the emissions trading scheme bills. But Ben Eltham has, and his verdict has been published at New Matilda: As the climate change debate rumbles [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged amendments, Australian Greens, Ben Eltham, Bob Brown, Climate change, climate change policy, cprs, Emissions trading scheme, Kevin Rudd, New Matilda, Penny Wong, Policy, Senate, The Greens |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 3, 2009
A report from today’s Australian: KEVIN Rudd has quietly assembled at least nine potential early-election triggers and is about to rain them upon Malcolm Turnbull to undermine his rival’s already brittle leadership. When parliament resumes next week, the Prime Minister [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Anna Bligh, Climate change, Coalition, double dissolution, election, electoral law, Kevin Rudd, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, obstructionism, political donations, Rudd government, Senate, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 7, 2009
Rob recently discussed the passage of the Waxman-Markey emissions trading bill through the US House of Representatives, and there’s been much written about its impact both on global climate change negotiations and on the chances of the CPRS legislation in [...]
Posted in Economics, Energy, Media, Politics, USA | Tagged American politics, Australian Greens, Climate change, climate change denialism, cprs, Emissions trading scheme, legislation, nate silver, Senate, Steve Fielding, The Greens, us congress, US House, US Senate, Wall Street Journal, waxman-markey |
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