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The #HAFF was Albanese #Labor’s biggest single program, spending $500 million a year. The Greens extracted $3 billion more over (I think) 3 years, tripling the size of the program #auspol Share this:Like this:Like Loading...

Banksvikt og faren for en ny krise[embedded content] Banksvikt og faren for en ny krise Av Stavros Mavroudeas Forfatteren er professor i politisk økonomi ved Panteion-universitet i Hellas. Den globale økonomien har nylig blitt rystet av en bankkrise. Fra USA – til tross for erklæringene i EU og andre steder – spredte problemene seg raskt videre, i det minste til resten av de vestlige økonomiene. Amerikanske Silicon Valley Bank ble fulgt av den forhastede redningen av den...

Den politiske alkymisten Yanis Varoufakis[embedded content] 14/09/2023Marxistisk senter Den politiske alkymisten Yanis Varoufakis Av Stavros Mavroudeas Verbale redningsmenn i krisetider I krisetider er det vanlig at det dukker opp «frelsere» som lover de lidende masser redning gjennom fantasifulle planer som skal reformere systemet og forbedre deres dårlige levestandard. Bak disse «frelsernes» høylytte rop mot systemet skjuler det seg mer eller mindre åpenbare...

One of the iconic moments in Australian sport occurred in at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Australians are strong in most summer sports, but we don’t have much in the way of a winter, so it was considered quite an achievement for Steven Bradbury to make the finals of the speed skating event. He was given little chance of winning, and was trailing the pack until the final seconds, when all four skaters ahead of him crashed spectacularly. Bradbury cruised past them to claim the gold medal,...

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September 11, 2023, marks the fiftieth anniversary of General Pinochet’s military coup against Chilean President Salvador Allende. While it is now widely recognized that Pinochet authorized large-scale human rights abuses, there is an accompanying narrative that he also unleashed an economic miracle via embrace of Milton Friedman’s “Chicago Boys” vision of a market economy. The […]

from Blair Fix Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a billionaire? Do you need rare genius? Exceptional acumen? Miraculous foresight? An uncompromising work ethic? On all four counts, the answer is no. It turns out that to become a billionaire, what you really need is the right social setting. You need to live in a society that is suitably rich and appropriately unequal. Without those things, your chances of wearing the billionaire badge are low. In this post, I’ll do the math....

My latest in Inside Story Fears about the impact of increasing longevity haven’t aged well John Quiggin 4 September 2023 1690 words Wrong assumption: treasurer Jim Chalmers launching this year’s Intergenerational Report at the National Press Club of Australia last month. Lukas Coch/AAP Image Share “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” This aphorism, apparently of Danish origin and sometimes attributed to the physicist Niels Bohr,...

In 2016, we had the Clinton v trump election. And trump won via three states swinging to the Repub vot via the anybody but trump or Clinton. There is not argument here and I have presented the data several times. Disney characters, other nonliving entities, pets, and other characters were voted for in the national election. The vote for “others” went up 4-6 times in 2016 as opposed to 2012 and dropping again in 2020. The three states in which this...

The Courier-Mail (no link) is running a #Brisbane airport propaganda line that a curfew would disrupt flights for a million people a year (8 flights per night*pax/flight*365). Using the same basis of calculation, and assuming 500k people under the flight path, they are disturbing about 100 million people a year. #auspol #greens #auspol Share this:Like this:Like Loading...