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1 hour, 3 minutes ago It'll be big and there will be more: 2.30 pm AEDT today
THE RESERVE Bank is set to cut interest rates by 1.00 percentage points today and to follow up with a series of aggressive cuts that will take mortgage rates to ...
Peter Martin - Economics, Canberra, human behaviour - 9:04 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
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1 day, 11 hours ago Expect near-zero growth this week - but don't call it recession
The Reserve Bank is considered certain to cut interest rates by at least a further 0.75 percentage points tomorrow ahead of official news expected to show that economic growth has ...
Peter Martin - Economics, Canberra, human behaviour - 11:01 p.m. Sunday 30th November 2008
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Two more excellent quotes from Tim Colebatch
"Treasury's latest forecast, released on November 5, implied that the worst financial meltdown since the Great Depression will do no more damage to Australia than the introduction of the GST. ...
Peter Martin - Economics, Canberra, human behaviour - 2:16 p.m. Sunday 30th November 2008
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COLEBATCH: Don't believe anyone who won't tell you we're falling into recession
"The reality is that these forecasts are political. They are designed to buy time, offer reassurance, not to give useful information" "THE OECD forecast that Australia's economy would experience modest ...
Peter Martin - Economics, Canberra, human behaviour - 1:21 p.m. Sunday 30th November 2008
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3 days, 2 hours ago TAXING TIMES: Could Ken Henry be thinking really big?
It's crunch time at the Henry Tax Review . The Prime Minister's hand-picked five-person team is in the final stages of preparing the consultation paper it will release in December ...
Peter Martin - Economics, Canberra, human behaviour - 7:46 a.m. Saturday 29th November 2008
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Could house prices actually be climbing?
About that debate between Rory Robertson and Steve Keen, the audio is here. HT: Keen Meantime: Widespread claims that house prices are falling seem to fly in the face of ...
Peter Martin - Economics, Canberra, human behaviour - 7:14 a.m. Saturday 29th November 2008
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4 days ago What's our form with recessions?
Craig James at CommSec: "The last recession in Australia was over 17 years ago. The economy contracted over the June and September quarters of 1990, was flat in the December ...
Peter Martin - Economics, Canberra, human behaviour - 9:20 a.m. Friday 28th November 2008
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4 days, 11 hours ago One reason we're headed for a budget deficit
THE Prime Minister has stepped up his defence of a budget deficit as new figures suggest that Victoria is holding back the national economy. The quarterly measure of business capital ...
Peter Martin - Economics, Canberra, human behaviour - 11:02 p.m. Thursday 27th November 2008
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Rory Robertson vs Steve Keen
Who's going to climb Kosciusko? Macquarie's Rory Robertson writes: "I was in Canberra yesterday, presenting at the Federal Treasury and the Parliamentary Library. Over the past year, I've often been ...
Peter Martin - Economics, Canberra, human behaviour - 6:37 p.m. Thursday 27th November 2008
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Who ran up and who paid off debt
Commenter Marek asked whether Julie Bishop could possibly be right when she said that it took the Coalition ten years to pay off $96 billion of debt left by Labor. ...
Peter Martin - Economics, Canberra, human behaviour - 2:22 p.m. Thursday 27th November 2008
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Who's run a surplus and who's run a deficit?
Commentator "anonymous" asked, and the answer is here . Or you click on this table and it should enlarge:
Peter Martin - Economics, Canberra, human behaviour - 2:11 p.m. Thursday 27th November 2008
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5 days, 11 hours ago It's that 'D' word - the taboo's been broken
Now let's see how responsible the Opposition can be, fingers crossed. PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has broken the taboo on countenancing a budget deficit, declaring that if if Australia's economic ...
Peter Martin - Economics, Canberra, human behaviour - 11:01 p.m. Wednesday 26th November 2008
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The November budget update "probably" already out of date
Treasurer Wayne Swan on tonight's 7.30 Report: O'BRIEN: So if the rest of the world economy is now getting worse than you anticipated when you produced the mid-year review, won't ...
Peter Martin - Economics, Canberra, human behaviour - 7:17 p.m. Wednesday 26th November 2008
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Here's the Opposition's line - responsible, measured...
"Today the Prime Minister has announced his intention to plunge Australia’s budget into deficit. The Prime Minister claimed that this would be a ‘temporary deficit’. Experience tells us that Labor ...
Peter Martin - Economics, Canberra, human behaviour - 6:40 p.m. Wednesday 26th November 2008
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