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How we found ourselves ambushed by reality
Australia's love of emissions trading to combat global warming is ending in the face of economic uncertainty, says Tom Switzer Kevin Rudd likes to...
Reprising the 1930s degringolade
"You don't know what you're doing" is the soccer crowd's refrain to a failing team manager's player selections. Such an accusation applies to...
Commodities could topple our domino
The world economy looks like a set of falling dominoes at the moment. What started out as solvency problems in the subprime mortgage market has...
RBA got it wrong on rates
If anything, the 1 percentage-point drop in interest rates must shatter the myth of infallibility that has come to surround the Reserve Bank. It is...
Forget intervention, let the correction do its job
The Reserve Bank of Australia has proven itself unable to comprehend, still less to control, the nation's money supply. Like the US Federal...
Public service balloons in Qld
Queensland has undoubtedly been one of Australia's boom states in the past 10 years, accounting for one third of Australia's growth. As the...
Change of climate an ill wind for carbon tax
THE Wall Street share market crash in October 1929 sparked off the Great Depression in the 1930s. Will Wall Street's latest financial collapse...
Congress no green house
There are two great myths perpetuated by Kevin Rudd and Climate Change Minister Penny Wong as a foundation for Australia introducing an emissions...
Farewell to politics of plenty
These days there's not too much talk about a soft landing for the global economy. The descriptions of the landing we can now hope for from the...
Science Joins the Sub-Prime
Well known British scientist and commentator, Phillip Stott, recently described ‘global warming' as sub-prime science, sub-prime economics...