ROSS GITTINS
ECONOMICS EDITOR, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
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Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Higher super: good for fund managers, not for workers
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Do you have trouble understanding superannuation? Some government backbenchers are urging Scott Morrison to abandon or at least postpone the...
Monday, July 29, 2019
Memo PM: governing goes better with a sharp public service
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For good or ill, much of the attitudes and strategies of the modern Liberal Party have been shaped by its greatest leader since Menzies, new...
Saturday, July 27, 2019
Money is created by the banks, not the government
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Just for a change, let’s talk about money. What? Don’t economists always talk about money? Well, yes, in the sense that almost all the thing...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Want the jobless to find jobs? Then increase the dole
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It’s so familiar a part of political economy you could call it Galbraith’s Law, after John Kenneth Galbraith, the literary Canadian-American...
Monday, July 22, 2019
Despite the photo-op, RBA knows we need fiscal stimulus
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Never fear, Reserve Bank governor Dr Philip Lowe may have stumbled on the optics of agreeing to a photo-op with Treasurer Josh Frydenberg th...
Saturday, July 20, 2019
Change is inevitable. If we embrace it we win; resist it we lose
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Will Australia’s future over the next 40 years be bright or pretty ordinary? It could go either way, depending on how we respond to the chal...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
News from the shopping trolley: retailers are doing it tough
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If I told you that a big reason we're feeling such cost-of-living pressure is the increasing profits of the big supermarket chains, depa...
Monday, June 24, 2019
Poor Josh Frydenberg: on the wrong tram, heading for trouble
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It’s not my policy to feel sorry for any politician – they’re all hugely ambitious volunteers – but I do feel sympathy for Treasurer Josh Fr...
Saturday, June 22, 2019
How to multiply the bang from your budget buck
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Years ago, I came to a strong conclusion: the politician who could resist the temptation to use the budget to prop up the economy when it’s ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Kiwis go one up and bring happiness to the budget
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Like the past, New Zealand is a foreign country. They do things differently there. While we’ve just had a budget promising what seems like t...
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