And that’s the point. It is all money in the bank. There is, according to the press, a difference of opinion between Treasury and the Reserve Bank over interest rates and their proper direction.
November 3rd, 2009 | Dr. Steven Kates | 79 comments | ContinuedArchive for Dr. Steven Kates
Dr. Steve Kates is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University. Dr. Kates spent a quarter century as the Chief Economist for the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Most of his research has been into macroeconomic policy, industrial relations and the history of economic thought. His most extensive area of expertise is in the classical propositions surrounding Say’s Law, on which he has written many papers as well as two books: Say’s Law and the Keynesian Revolution (1998) and Two Hundred Years of Say’s Law (2003) and, with John Cunningham Wood as the general editor, put together a five volume set, Critical Readings on Jean-Baptiste Say. The lead article in the March 2009 issue of Quadrant dealt with “The Dangerous Return of Keynesian Economics” which looks at the importance of Say’s Law in the development of coherent macroeconomic policies.
What’s Wrong With the Stimulus Packages
The Australian Senate has been running an inquiry into the stimulus package for which I provided a written submission and afterwards spoke to the Senate Economic References Committee which has been conducting this inquiry.
October 20th, 2009 | Dr. Steven Kates | 11 comments | Continued
Why I Would Have Raised the Interest Rates
Am I privy to the discussions of the RBA Board? No again. But I do know this. I do know why I would have raised rates, and would keep on raising them until the Government gets the message.
October 9th, 2009 | Dr. Steven Kates | 16 comments | Continued
The Dead Weight Cost of the Stimulus
On 21 September I provided testimony to the Senate Economics References Committee on the damage done by the government’s “stimulus” package. The submission was broken into five separate sections.
October 2nd, 2009 | Dr. Steven Kates | 35 comments | Continued
