New Zealand’s history of inflation, recessions and unemployment offer clues to what might happen next. Coupled with global events, the outlook is not promising.
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In the UK, taxpayers see paying income tax as part of contributing as a citizen.
A new study of Florida’s fiscal vulnerability to climate change finds that flooding directly threatens many local tax bases.
Shutting down the government won’t help reduce the deficit. Here’s what would.
Tax cuts could help reduce inflation without destabilising the banking sector and piling the pressure on mortgage holders
He faces strong headwinds at home and abroad as his third term as president gets underway.
It’s not just the numbers that have changed in Jim Chalmers’ first budget. There is an emphasis on climate change and wellbeing, too.
The UK government has not made things easy for businesses recently.
The expected relationship between government and central bank policy has broken down in the UK.
The best way to manage the economy is though an array of tools. Interest rates are just one.
The 2022-23 budget is the result of a good plan, well executed. But whichever party next takes government must close the deficit gap – without resorting to austerity.
This is a budget for the instant – unashamedly an election bribe, and unconcerned when that involves pursuing some poor policy.
The budget forecasts and unemployment numbers show Josh Frydenberg’s COVID support spending has paid dividends.
Weeks out from a possible election, the federal government has delivered a voter-friendly budget filled with giveaways
National Treasury’s strategy to overcome South Africa’s chronic fiscal crisis rests on highly uncertain political and economic foundations.
In 1950, the top 0.01% of earners paid almost 70% of their income in taxes. By 2018, the super-rich paid proportionately less than the average for all other Americans.
Central banking was given to technocrats whose job is to make the difficult decisions. But there are parameters. And within these, central bankers must act independently, without fear or favour.
Megachurches and the men who lead them can be superrich. So why don’t the IRS and local authorities see a cent in taxes? A scholar explains.
Australia’s official unemployment rate falling to 5.5% is enough to make a treasurer dance. But we shouldn’t get too carried away.
Medium-term expenditure frameworks can be useful only when they are based on comprehensive medium-term development plans.
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professorial Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Sydney
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Economics, University of the Western Cape
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Emeritus Professor of Economics (Griffith University) and Teaching Associate (University of Queensland), Griffith University
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Professor of Economics, Monash University
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Professor of Economics, City St George's, University of London