AGED CARE – THE EXPENSE THAT KEEPS EXPANDING Stone the crows! If you think aged care is crook have a word with Jenny Macklin. A couple of weeks back, Lateline reported on substandard aged care accommodation.[i]Linda Mottram picked up the issue on ABC Sydney radio the next morning with callers, texters and tweeters angry at [...]
IRANIANS (NOW) AND EAST GERMANS (THEN) COMPARED STONE the crows! We have fans in Iran! The Crows know a moral conundrum when they see one and are not buying into the debate over asylum seekers and economic immigrants, or how to define the former and deal with the latter. But they are appalled by the [...]
MIKE BAIRD’S WEST CONNEX PROPOSAL MAKES SENSE STONE the crows! Superannuation is as much engineering as investing. Being birds of very little loot, the Crows struggle to understand why superannuation fund managers pile into shares, which push the market up without actually expanding the economy. Yes, they know there is not much sense in staying [...]
APPLE, DOWN TO ITS CORE? STONE the crows! Creative destruction even applies to Apple. You might have missed Apple’s extraordinary advertisements, what with all the coups and threats of civil war over the few days, (the Crows hear things are nearly as bad in Egypt as the ALP). The company has run colour double pages [...]
(ELECTRICITY) POWER TO THE PEOPLE – AT WHAT COST? STONE the crows! People who do not grasp the cost pay an appalling price for power! No, not the Federal Labor Party - electricity consumers. If there is one thing that appals everybody, it is the price of power. According to the feds, in the four [...]
ECONOMICS DERAILED ON TRAIN TO THE HILLS STONE the crows! Were the Carr-Iemma-that other bloke-Keneally governments right to announce, but never build, the northwest rail link? Treasury allegedly argued, back then, that a train line to the Hills was a waste of money.[i] It supposedly told the O’Farrell Government the same thing.[ii] And some of [...]
RENEWABLE ENERGY REWARDS THE BETTER OFF To be potent power must be pure STONE the crows! The Greens have won – electricity consumption is down, meaning less damage to the environment by global-warming, fossil fuel-burning power stations! And yet the Crows see no green-garbed dancing in the streets – which seems strange. Unless of course [...]
FRANCE MOVES TO LIMIT WELFARE Monsieur Normal becomes Monsieur Meanie Jusqu’a un point Lord Copper. A century back the French Republic was obsessed with increasing the birth-rate, to ensure there were enough conscripts to match the Germans in the war they were waiting for – and didn’t that work out well. Now the Republic assists [...]
MAGIC PUDDINGS DO NOT EXIST STONE the crows; economic policy has become a morality play with sobriety the sinner. A couple of months back the Crows reported the fuss over statistical errors and omissions in a paper by Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart.[i] Their overall argument survived, that deficit spending by governments impedes growth. Still, [...]
HEALTH COSTS STABILISING IN US – BUT NOT IN AUSTRALIA STONE the crows! There is good news on healthcare spending – just not here. The Crows have always wondered how the Yanks manage to spend so much on healthcare without it delivering for the 50 million people who are uninsured, which, considering the old are [...]
