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Big bucks roll in poll quest
Despite both Labor and the Liberals promising to outdo each other on the fiscal conservative criteria, The Canberra Times election "spendometer" in...
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...
Why greed's just too small a word to hang a crisis on
Pundits, letter writers, talk-back radio callers, John McCain and the Prime Minister all agree: It Woz Greed Wot Done It. In a speech in Sydney...
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...
States need to lift their game
Australian states and territories appear to have been steadily losing friends for a long period of time. The group of those not enamoured with the...
Costello is the new Nixon
The former treasurer has something in common with the disgraced US president, says Tom Switzer When I say that Peter Costello is the new Nixon, I...
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...
Pokies unfairly stigmatised
Perhaps emboldened by having taken up his position in the Senate, Nick Xenophon seems to have moved from espousing further restrictions on poker...