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Interest rates should start falling now

Interest rates should start falling now
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Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

Reforms are needed to ensure an adequate retirement income

Reforms are needed to ensure an adequate retirement income
24.01.2025 6

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

President Trump and Australia’s National Security

17.01.2025 8

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

Which party is the more competent economic manager – Labor or Liberal?

As we enter a new year, the forthcoming election is quite close and will dominate political discussion for the next few months. For many of us who...

10.01.2025 10

InDaily

Michael Keating

Which party is better at managing the economy?

09.01.2025 80

The New Daily

Michael Keating

Which party is the more competent economic manager – Labor or Liberal?

Judgments about economic management will be critical in the next election. Examination of their respective records and policies suggests that...

06.01.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

Dutton’s Economic Cons: household electricity bills to rise by $665 a year under Coalition [ready]

Like Trump, Dutton likes to portray himself as a strong man. But appearances are not everything, and Dutton is pretty much an economic policy...

18.12.2024 4

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

Trump’s economic delusions

Trump’s economic strategy is based on a series of delusions that will result in higher inflation, a bigger trade deficit and a loss in the value of...

10.12.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

To avoid recession, cut interest rates next week

Interest rates settings depend on forecasts of price inflation, wages and unemployment. There is now sufficient evidence to suggest that the...

06.12.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

Are you better off? If not, why not?: Productivity, income distribution and the cost of living crisis

While lifting the rate of productivity growth is the obvious solution to the cost of living crisis, judging by the experience of most developed...

01.12.2024 5

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

With a ceasefire in Lebanon, now is the time to determinedly push for Gaza next

Third party intervention led by the US and France has achieved a ceasefire in Lebanon. The US now needs to push for a settlement in Gaza where the...

01.12.2024 4

Canberra Times

Michael Keating

A ceasefire in Lebanon – Gaza next?

Third party intervention led by the US and France has achieved a ceasefire in Lebanon. The US now needs to push for a settlement in Gaza where the...

29.11.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

Trump’s impact on the rest of the world, and Australia in particular

Somewhat surprisingly, careful analysis and modelling show that Trump’s crude attempt to Make America Great Again, mainly damages the American...

11.11.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

The US election campaign: Lessons for Australia

Just like in the US , the next Australian election will be decided by the cost of living. Both the US and Australian economies have performed quite...

08.11.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

Changes to tertiary education funding fail to remedy “stupid inequity” of Morrison era

The changes to Tertiary Education funding announced by the Prime Minister last weekend, mostly benefit former students. Arguably there are other...

06.11.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

Peace in Gaza: Part 2

A sustainable peace settlement in Gaza needs to meet the legitimate demands of the key parties, but given their inability to negotiate such an...

30.10.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

Peace in Gaza: Part 1

The death and destruction in Gaza continue, and now in Lebanon as well. There have been peace negotiations for a year, but so far unsuccessful....

29.10.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

Productivity growth has slowed: will it recover?

Restoring the rate of productivity growth is critical to future living standards, but unless technological change accelerates living standards may...

09.10.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

International comparisons of monetary policy

Much of the expert commentary on Australia’s monetary policy settings is guided by what is happening in other countries. However, monetary...

24.09.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

Does the Reserve Bank need to change?

Shortly after he became Treasurer, in July 2022,  Jim Chalmers announced a review of the Reserve Bank – the first since the current monetary policy...

19.09.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

How to ensure a Gaza ceasefire

We are all appalled by the scale of the deaths and destruction in Gaza. Every day brings more terrible news. That is why we all want, or at least...

16.09.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

When should we expect interest rates to fall?

The Reserve Bank has explicitly warned against any expectation that interest rates will start to fall soon. On the other hand, the Treasurer...

12.09.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating

The cost of living crisis is really a housing crisis

The evidence shows that the only households whose living costs have risen faster than their incomes are those homeowners with a mortgage. For the...

08.08.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Keating