ROSS GITTINS
ECONOMICS EDITOR, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
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Monday, May 11, 2020
How Morrison can give us a bright economic future
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A big part of getting economic life back to normal involves restoring people’s faith that the future will be full of opportunity for progres...
Saturday, May 9, 2020
Economic managers bank on us being smart as the average bear
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It’s a lovely, comforting way to think about our economic problem. To beat the virus, we’ve had to put the economy into hibernation, but now...
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Hard lessons on how recessions work and why we hate them
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Forgive me for boasting about how old I am, but this coronacession – aka the Great Lockdown – will be the fourth severe recession of my care...
Monday, May 4, 2020
First the economy needs CPR. We'll worry about reform later
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I can’t take seriously all those people saying we mustn’t waste a crisis, but seize this great opportunity to introduce sweeping economic re...
Saturday, May 2, 2020
After the anti-social lockdown comes the anti-jobs recession
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Until now, old farts like me have thought it a terrible thing that next to no one under 50 has any experience of how terrible recessions ar...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Morrison and the medicos must also avoid complacency
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They say Australians always respond well to a crisis, and it seems it's true. Even in these days of disposable leaders, Kevin Rudd deftl...
Monday, April 13, 2020
How would Jesus treat people on the dole?
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Since it’s Easter, let me tell you about something that’s long puzzled me: how can an out-and-proud Pentecostalist such as Prime Minister S...
Saturday, April 11, 2020
Some major contagions have nothing to do with you-know-what
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It’s a long weekend so, though we’re barred from enjoying it in the usual way, let’s at least forget the V-word. How about a quiz? Let’s s...
Monday, March 23, 2020
For this to work, we must really be 'all in this together'
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There are two ways Scott Morrison can play this coronacession: he can spread the pain as fairly as possible, or he can yield to all his pol...
Saturday, March 21, 2020
It's the coronacession: closing down on doctors' orders
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It’s now clear that we – like most countries – are already in a recession that promises to be long and severe. It will be a recession unlike...
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