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Thank you to everyone who has already donated to the IPA’s End of Financial Year campaign! If you haven’t already, there’s still time to make a tax deductible donation to support...
Thank you to everyone who has already donated to the IPA’s End of Financial Year campaign! If you haven’t already, there’s still time to make a tax deductible donation to support...
Despite $2 trillion in public and private expenditure over the last decade, wind and solar still account for only 3.6% of total global primary energy consumption (p. 11): This is a lesson Germany...
This is how bad Australia’s business investment problem is – it is lower now than it was under Whitlam: Read the transcript of Daniel Wild’s speech to the Australian Libertarian Society’s...
Who knew cutting red tape and taxes would create jobs? The US achieved its lowest unemployment rate since 2000 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ May jobs report released on...
According to The Guardian and the Australia Institute, “Australia has more wealth and income inequality than ever.” AsDaniel Wild noted on Twitter on Tuesday, this is just more fake...
If you thought Australia’s declining entrepreneurship rate was bad enough on its own merits, look at the international comparisons: That’s from Demographics and Entrepreneurship: Mitigating the...
We should start charging politicians for these lessons! Last week we pointed out the obvious in that cutting spending would reduce debt. Our basic budget lesson for this week? “Tax cuts are...
Okay, this might be a little crazy, but we think we’ve stumbled across a solution to the record debt forecast in Tuesday’s budget: Cut. Spending. Check out what just a 1% cut in...
There are a lot of problems the federal budget needs to fix next week, but this is the most important: Last year’s budget signalled that the era of economic liberalism in Australia was...
The most important class difference in Australia is between those who have the dignity of work and those who don’t, as John Roskam explained on Q&A on Monday: If you missed Q&A on...
I really can’t work out what’s causing Australia’s spiralling electricity prices… Maybe energy ministers should look at that graph before they commit to more government...
If you’re in New South Wales or Western Australia, look away now. This is how GST revenue has been redistributed since it was introduced: That’s from Morgan Begg’s report Time to End GST...