Wayne Swan continues to pledge that the federal budget will return to surplus by 2012-13. The big question is why we’re not already there, asks Karen Maley?
Budget surpluses
Wayne and Kevin’s excellent financial crisis
The stability of the Australian economy does have a bit to do with Rudd and Swan, writes Bernard Keane.
If Howard was so hot, why aren’t we bailing out Wall Street?
If the Howard Government was half as good an economic manager as it claims, we’d be participating in the current banking rescues, writes Stephen Mayne.
Errington: One last scare campaign?
The Reserve Bank has as good as destroyed the Coalition’s chosen election slogan “Go For Growth”. But this is a mere inconvenience for a campaign veteran such as John Howard, writes Wayne Errington.
Alan Kohler: 2007 another good election to win
The reason I think Kevin Rudd and the ALP will be good for investors is not part of the election campaign, and probably won’t be: they are likely to be better managers of prosperity than John Howard.
Tax cut pledge prove a bigger surplus isn’t better
John Howard and his Treasurer, Peter Costello, have begun the election campaign with an incredible admission – that bigger isn’t always better when it comes to a surplus, writes Christian Kerr.
South Korea versus Australia – our pathetic savings record
Peter Costello has had plenty of ups and downs as Treasurer since March 1996, but when asked about his toughest single day in the job, he cites Christmas Day 1997 – the day South Korea ran out of foreign reserves.
Yet another Future Fund accounting rort from Cossie
The Future Fund is already being obsessively secretive about its activities as we still don’t know exactly how much of its $50 billion-plus in cash has been deployed and in what asset classes, writes Stephen Mayne.
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