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I have been meaning to write about using quarantine as a barrier to trade since Queensland’s banana crop was destroyed by cyclone Yasi last...

The above video is from Bernard Salt's presentation at the 2011 Property Council of Australia's 'Geared for Growth' Congr...

But I see offhand no other way to prevent financial transactions disguised as trade In 1 972, after the collapse of the Bretton Woods syst...

Over at Naked Capitalism is a fantastic interview with David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 years . The most intersting point fo...

  Law of demand holds Bust fares go up, patronage goes down. A lesson for policy makers about defining their outcomes better – do they wan...

The gay marriage debate is extremely interesting. I have a few issues that never seem to be resolved, and are often bypassed in discuss...

The basic premise behind stimulatory monetary policy is that lower interest rates reduce the cost of debt, and decrease the returns to savin...

I've been reading some great posts recently at Chris Eastwood's blog in my view... . Below is a full post comparing the merits of ...

Only three things matter in the Australian economy - productivity (how much each person produces); employment (how many people are producin...

Democracy In a democracy, we put political power into the hands of some and try to limit the damage they will do as much as we can by p...