Saturday, September 30, 2017

Mounting housing stress underscores need for expert council to guide wayward policy making

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Stronger, better-founded evidence about the nature and extent of the affordable housing problem may help build consensus about how to tackle...
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Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Is coal still cheaper than renewables as an energy source?

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Coal-fired power is only cheaper than renewable energy where the capital cost of the plant is sunk. For new power facilities, renewables is ...
Monday, June 12, 2017

Is Australia's economy really a world-beater?

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The claim that Australia has  gone twenty-six years without a recession is true, but only if you accept three assumptions. Unfortunately, no...

Fancy government financing could still cost the taxpayer

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Project financing should minimise the level of public subsidy needed to deliver the project; and where risk is borne by the private sector, ...
Friday, May 19, 2017

Do Australian banks have double the return on equity of banks in other developed economies?

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Jim Minifie (Grattan Institute) checks, and Rodney Maddock (Monash University) reviews the Treasurer's claims that Australian banks have...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Tax on ‘unearned gains’ is the missing piece of the affordable housing puzzle

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Extending capital gains taxation to cover annual improvements in land value would improve discourage housing speculation and improve housing...

Government spending from Howard to Turnbull

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Alan Duncan and Rebecca Cassells (Curtin University) explain Commonwealth expenditure patterns since 1998.