Obama provides hope for Wall St change“Normalcy cannot lead to complacency”. That key line in Barack Obama’s speech one year on from the Lehman Brothers collapse goes to the heart of why financial reform hasn’t worked in the past, says James Surowiecki.
Economic reform measures
The great CPRS green jobs con
There is a fundamental difference between economic reforms pursued by previous governments and the current reforms — previously the focus was on economic efficiency, writes Sinclair Davidson.
A tax rort is a tax rort, unless the AFR says it isn’t
Everyone loves economic reform until it affects them, at which point the excuses and justifications for the status quo — the claims that sounded so hollow when made by others — start coming out.
Richardson: Why Rudd didn’t support the GST
John Howard’s attacks on Kevin Rudd’s record as a backbencher were disingenuous because they ignored the way the Australian party system works, writes Charles Richardson.
