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You will notice that I write a lot about government debt.
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There Can Be Only One - Trillion Dollar Man
In the 1986 film Highlander about sword-wielding immortals, there is a scene in which the hero, Connor MacLeod, stands over his decapitated rival and declares that:
High Integrity Mendicancy
Just when you think the media has finally run out of clowns to opine on the economic issue du jour, out pops another, tumbling out of the circus car.
Scots College: No Solutions - Only Trade-Offs.
If you are looking for an idiotic analysis of an issue or event, the Sydney Morning Herald is a good place to start.
Canapes for the Quislings in Cufflinks
You gotta love it.
Flock No. Australia Does Not Want New Zealand.
There were three mega gaffes Prime Minister Dumbanese offered up in that ridiculous Bush Deep podcast. Unfortunately, the media only bothered counting two.
Subsidised Is Not a Synonym for Cheaper
For roughly two centuries, the way you made something cheaper was to actually make it cheaper.
Canberra Policy Circle Jerk Goes Global
Is it possible that the Labor brains trust of Tim Ayres, Chris Bowen and Jim Chalmers have quietly opened a consulting arm?
A Pity Both Sides Can’t Lose
When asked his thoughts on the Iran and Iraq war, Henry Kissinger is reported to have said:
We May Be Doomed
Don’t listen to me.
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt
Well, pop the champagne.
Not The Productivity But Equity Commission
Rejoice, Australia.
Sovereign Melon Capability - the Cantaloupes Of The Willing
Wonderful news for Australian taxpayers.
My Fellow Australis Ovis Aries
To my fellow Australis Ovis Aries. There was a very interesting column in the Australian today. There was a particular line that caught my attention”
Congealed Stupidity
Aluminium’s nickname in the “trade” is congealed electricity. This is in large part because its production (bauxite is refined into alumina; alumina is smelted into aluminium) being incredibly energy-intensive.
Jim Chalmers to Australian Workers - Drop Dead
The RBA held the cash rate at 4.35 per cent yesterday and the Treasurer sprinted to the microphone to call it a:
The RBA is independent is it?
4.35 per cent.
Educating the Educators - The Long March Is Now a Carousel.
If you are not across the Jason Arday story, get across it.
Nobody Argues Anymore
On 11 August 1918, Vladimir Lenin wrote a telegram from the Kremlin to a few party men in Penza, a provincial town south east of Moscow.
Day-o. Day E ya-o. The Banana Republic Boat Song.
Forty years ago, a Commonwealth treasurer took a phone call on a kitchen wall phone while a woman with a grudge and a tower of breakfast crockery clanged away beside him.