The evidence is everywhere, the trend clear. From riots among farmers from Europe to India, to a shift towards the political extremes across the developed world and ongoing conflict in the Middle East and Africa, political unrest appears to be on the rise. In the US, once the bastion of free market enterprise, a man...
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Is this the end of small government?
The government is getting back into business. In a move that has horrified the economic purists and overturned half a century of developed nation dogma, Australia has joined the United States and Europe in winding back the clock to an industrial future. It hasn’t exactly come as a surprise. Like almost every other announcement in...
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Treasurer tips hat to Australian public servants who built the global economy
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has used a pre-Budget address to salute the role of Australian public servants in setting up the Bretton Woods System. Driven by one of history’s most influential economists, John Maynard Keynes, the Bretton Woods conference reforged the global economy in the wake of World War II through the creation of the Global...