Tasmanian Times
Economy
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The Eslake analysis
Saul Eslake A commentary on the preliminary Mid-Year Review of the State Budget released Monday.
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Is it true that foreigners finance American debt?
Brenda Rosser Are foreigners denied other currency options under the weight of US dollar hegemony? Perhaps many of these foreigners are not...
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Advantage Gunns
Robert Gottliebsen Busines Spectator Australia’s most maligned company, Gunns, is going to record a huge rise in headline profit in the half...
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No land tax for plantations
Anonymouse Kim made a very interesting point too that forestry plantations don’t attract any land tax. If forestry plantation companies did have...
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Tiger or pussy cat?
Saul Eslake Attached are the slides I used in my presentations to the Tasmanian Branch of the Economic Society of Australia’s annual...
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The $8.5 trillion bailout
Mike Bolan Ideas on dealing with our financial crisis plus facts about why bureaucracies don’t produce desired results. Problems with control of...
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Race to the bottom
John Lawrence If one were to strip away the subsidies ‘paid’ to Gunns via wood supply arrangements with Forestry Tas , Gunns...
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Global warming: Faster, stronger, sooner
Jon Sumby CLIMATE change is happening much faster than the world’s best scientists predicted and will wreak havoc unless action is taken...
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It’s the bottom line Stupid!
Barnaby Drake This factor may have some bearing on recent events in Tasmania where we have a majority of the population expressing...
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I don’t like this tax
Exploring Phobus Now I am not a complete idiot, I do accept the taxation system and acknowledge that tax is a way...
