Tasmanian Times
Economy
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The Unholy Trinity – the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. Part One.
Brenda Rosser Under Bretton Woods the US dollar became the global reserve currency. This meant, amongst other things, that while every other...
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Power ration fears spark purchase
Bruce Mounster Mercury THE spectre of power rationing, as early as next year, has spurred the State Government to fork out $340...
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Wal King: an interrogation
Robert Gottliebsen Business Spectator “RG: If Gunns get the money and gain government approval will you build the pulp mill? WK: Why...
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U.S. Headed Toward Bankruptcy
Terence P. Jeffrey “The problem that we have right now—putting foreign policy aside and our fight with Islamic radicalism—is that we have...
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A New Economic Direction for Tasmania
David Bartlett Premier There’s a Saul Eslake quote that I have had pinned to my office wall for a few years now...
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Letter to Fin Review – Gunns Value
John Hawkins Dear Sir, After two articles in your newspaper spruking Gunns and their share price, in particular ‘Street Talk’ of 15th...
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Curse of the pokies
Damien Brown Mercury GAMBLING in Tasmania is not a substantial contributor to economic or jobs growth, a major study has found. And...
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State growth fears
Hag Note the language: Treasurer Aird – fundamentalist pulp mill backer and great Rough Red mate – is subtly shifting ground. Or...
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The missing link in the Garnaut report
Geoff Russell, Peter Singer and Barry Brook July 10, 2008 The real climate change culprit is methane gas from cows and sheep....
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Pipedream: When will the public be told?
Peter Henning WHEN WILL the Tasmanian public be informed about the proposal to pipe hundreds of gigalitres of water per annum across...
