Evidence-free policy on cars
His Telstra term has apparently left Ziggy Switkowski with a taste for Gaullist illogic. He reckons that the absence of a rationale — other than rent-se...
Tag: microeconomics
Abbott’s foreign investment policy
This is the sentence that makes me feel most uncomfortable: Voters are likely to be less hostile to foreign investment if they think that the government...
Why shoot elephants?
It’s the most effective way to kill them. Any game-keeper will tell you that. Just as any economist will tell you that the most effective way to control o...
Prices to grow 20 percent faster
Among the slogans that the Labor/Greens alliance will pound out over the next few weeks is that their coal tax is “low cost.” They don’t seem to understand th...
When is “reform” not a reform?
No doubt Ms Gillard will assure us, next Sunday when she announces the coal tax she has agreed with the Greens and two “independents”, that this is a “reform...
So now it’s a coal tax?
What is the point of the “emissions” tax now? By excluding petrol from their proposed tax, the Labor/Green alliance have moved the goal posts to make the tax...
Learning to love the Boom
Sensation sells, of course (“Salut DSK!”). Today’s Australian carries a gloom-laden account of Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson’s address to the Mel...