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Australia needs to change its national accounting system to be more like the private sector.
Ratings agency S&P seems unconvinced of the Australian government’s ability to reduce the budget deficit.
Budget repair seems even less plausible after this election and this is the main risk to Australia’s AAA credit rating.
Rousseff is about to go on trial for allegedly borrowing $11 billion to fund social programs and conceal a budget deficit. Why is that a crime?
Yet another budget making claims of a gradual decline in government debt. But the credit rating agencies want us to keep these promises - or else.
They’re the lines you sometimes hear before or after budgets from governments and commentators of all persuasions. The problem is they go against reality.
This week the IMF warns of secular stagnation while Moody’s ponders a credit downgrade for Australia if GST and negative gearing are not tackled.
Economic growth forecasts for Mozambique are being revised down. The country needs to safeguard economic stability by taking steps to break with the past.
The credit-ratings agencies are already circling to cut the UK’s grade if it votes to leave the EU. Here’s how their calculations work, and what we should do about it.
Greece can learn a lot from Africa’s 1980s and 1990s experience of living with structural adjustment (austerity). The damage has been long-lasting – not only on economies, but also directly on people.
Austerity was never really an option for the Queensland Labor government’s first budget, and its move to shift debt make sense.
After a decade of narrowing fiscal deficits, South Africa has borrowed heavily since 2009 to support the economy. The debt pile exposes the country to the risk of a sell-off by foreign bond holders
Your simple guide to the budget deficit, how the money will be spent and the savings measures we can expect in the years ahead.
In the latest in our Budget Explainer series, Mark Crosby explains debt and deficit and where Australia stands.
Uncertainty about economic growth is driving record low long-term government bond yields, but there’s more to the story.
Until government leaders acknowledge Australia’s structural deficit and stop obsessing about debt, voters will be left frustrated.
Despite its tendency to provoke anxiety-inducing debates in Congress and government shutdowns, the high level of US IOUs isn’t a big deal.
The move to challenge the leadership of Prime Minister Tony Abbott, coming soon after the shock Queensland election outcome, has in some quarters been blamed on a lack of appetite for reform on the part…
The same deep forces that were behind the election result in Queensland are being played out in Canberra. The Australian people want, although most won’t admit it, higher taxes – either now or in the future…
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