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While competition can clearly bring significant consumer benefits (think Virgin Blue and the airline shake up, or Aldi and current supermar...

On personal freedoms, litigation, and common sense  (a good read) Did he really say that ?  Chris Joye, optimist, reckons that s tability ...

What few seem to appreciate, either inside or outside of Japan, is just how strong the resulting Japanese recovery from 2002-2008 was. It wa...

Morgan Stanley’s Gerard Minack aptly uses the phrase ‘living in a bubble’ as the title of his research note about Australia’s housing market...

Helmet laws hit the headlines with a new Australian study proclaiming their ineffectiveness at providing safety to cyclists, while in Can...

Tyler Cowen asks : Why does anyone pay for macro-economic forecasts when they are typically wrong and in the public domain? The answer is si...

Often forgotten in the competition debate are the reasons for a monopoly’s existence in the first place? A few are: 1. Mergers and economi...

I was pleasantly surprised by Dick Smith’s Population Puzzle documentary last night. He covered most of the key economic arguments against ...

Following my previous post on the Debt Reduction Taskforce , I thought I would provide some links that explain my views on monetary theory m...

Population growth advocates often rely on the ‘age dependency ratio’ as their core economic argument.   This ratio is the population aged o...