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Alan Moran
Solutions to perfect storm remain off the radar
A perfect storm has brought the disastrous economic tidings confronting the Australian economy. The US was the incubator of the present world...
We can't spend our way out of this one
The present economic downturn is widely recognised as being, at the very least, the most serious since the end of World War II. It is without...
Kevin Rudd's idol FDR did it, so why doesn't he?
Kevin Rudd's essay in The Monthly, "The Global Financial Crisis", represents a profound misunderstanding of the nature of the market economy and...
Renewable energy plan just a lot of hot air
Twelve years ago, as a sop to wind farm lobbyists and green activists, the Howard government announced a "2 per cent renewable energy requirement"....
Greenhouse guess: tax vs. trade
Politicians have converted the global warming policy chess match into a poker game with a constantly revised bidding currency, comprising tradable...
Even FDR was keen to slash pay packets
In his essay in The Monthly on the global financial crisis, Kevin Rudd named me as a neo-liberal (which he didn't define, but which roughly...
Frugal mindset could prove a saving grace
Peter Costello and Bob Brown are unlikely bedfellows in opposing Chinese state-owned company Chinalco buying into Rio Tinto. Mr Costello proudly...
Rudd's plan a dead weight on the future
On Monday, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told a news conference the government would "move heaven and earth" to support the economy. That's a tall...
The case against hand-outs; The rescue plan
In Australia's great Keynesian giveaway debate, much pontificating turns on whether it is better to provide hand-outs or tax cuts. Though tax cuts...
Very little gain, lots of long-term pain
Australia's second pump-priming stimulus announced yesterday will prove every bit as wasteful as last October's $10.4 billion package. Predictably,...