Monetary Policy – need for reform
Milton Friedman believed the best measure of the effects of monetary policy was the growth rate of measures of money supply. Central...
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Fiona Prior
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
Only the Animals
Only the Animals Director: Dominik Moll ‘Only the Animals’ is one of those movies that continually twists and turns, showing you that...
Pete Jonson
- Jan 30, 2021
- 2 min
Fixing economies
The global pandemic is perhaps at the beginning of its end. The hope is the many vaccines, but there is much uncertainty about how well...
Pete Jonson
- Jan 16, 2021
- 2 min
Washington warns China
Laura Tingle of the AFR picks up a declassified American document of a sort that would normally be secret for 30 years. It concerns US...
Fiona Prior
- Jan 10, 2021
- 2 min
Washington's burning ...
Anyone who has read Henry for a while knows that I’m a complete nerd for symbolism and semiotics; whether in reality or representation....
Pete Jonson
- Jan 2, 2021
- 3 min
Australia and China
Several nice articles today worthy of helping Aussies understand what to do about China. The tiny chink of light is a slightly positive...
Fiona Prior
- Dec 20, 2020
- 2 min
2020 – the movie
Who wrote this script? Unless in some great, biblical epic, what audience is going to believe that devastating fire (nice use of a...
Pete Jonson
- Dec 20, 2020
- 2 min
There, and almost all the way back (Keynes does it again)
Jeff Borland is Australia’s best Labor market economist, and I suspect leads Australia’s economist’s pack. His analysis is based upon ABS...
Pete Jonson
- Dec 4, 2020
- 3 min
Where is our economy heading?
After the great discomfort of the ‘second wave and lockdown’ in the Victorian economy, and the near miracule of weeks of no new...
Fiona Prior
- Nov 22, 2020
- 2 min
He was only nineteen
All the headlines about the war crimes in Afghanistan takes me back to when I was travelling Australia with a significantly older...
Pete Jonson
- Nov 21, 2020
- 34 min
What to do about China.
A fine article by Rowan Callick, from the CIS, with thanks to Noel Bushnell. Rowan Callick Introduction “We should gather elite forces…”...
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