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The MMT Hoax

Tony Makin, Gene Tunny · May 27, 2021 · PP41

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a supposedly new macroeconomic paradigm, but it is essentially a reprise of 1930s Keynesian economics. …
Lower Company Tax to Resuscitate the Economy

Jeff Bennett, Michael Potter, Tony Makin · July 6, 2020 · PP31

In response to the economic contraction of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal and state governments have dramatically expanded the scope …
A Fiscal Vaccine for COVID-19

Tony Makin · June 10, 2020 · PP30

The fiscal response to the Covid-19 crisis ensures that the federal and state governments will experience large budget deficits and …
Should We Worry About the Foreign Debt?

Gary M. White, Max Walsh , Tony Makin, Tom Valentine · April 1, 1994 · PF11

The question of whether or not the level of Australia’s foreign debt is a matter for concern has divided the …

Too much spending, not enough reform
Robert Carling, Tony Makin, Peter Tulip, Simon Cowan · October 9, 2020 · Ideas@theCentre

The Budget is very focused on the short-term, too heavy on spending and too light on permanent structural reform. “New …
‘Little knowledge’ budget
Tony Makin · October 2, 2020 · Ideas@theCentre

The dictum that “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing” rings very true in the run up to the federal …
Extra infrastructure spending not an economic panacea
Tony Makin · September 3, 2020 · Ideas@theCentre

Increased government spending on infrastructure has been proposed yet again to revive the economy from the government-imposed recession. However, there …
Extra infrastructure spending won’t build a road out of the corona recession
Tony Makin · September 1, 2020 · Spectator

Increased government spending on infrastructure has been proposed yet again to revive the economy from the government-imposed recession. The latest …
Company tax cuts will spark post-Covid economy
Jeff Bennett, Tony Makin · July 27, 2020 · The Australian

Government-imposed health restrictions have decimated the travel, tourism and entertainment sectors of the Australian economy. Logic suggests that recovery from …
Resuscitate near-flatline economy
Jeff Bennett, Tony Makin, Michael Potter · July 10, 2020 · Ideas@theCentre

The performance of the economy was weak before Covid-19, and now it is perilously close to flat-lining. In particular, business …
The two great threats of 2020: coronavirus – and Keynes
Tony Makin · June 24, 2020 · Spectator

The fiscal response to the COVID-19 pandemic leaves an economically threatening legacy of high budget deficits and public debt. Australian …
Coronavirus: It’s Keynes’s fault – again we go into debt to ‘stimulate’ the economy
Tony Makin · June 17, 2020 · The Australian

The economic impact of, and budgetary response to, the pandemic is often compared to the global financial crisis. And some …
Keynesian fallacy an economic threat
Tony Makin · June 11, 2020 · Ideas@theCentre

The fiscal response to the Covid-19 pandemic leaves an economically threatening legacy of high budget deficits and public debt. Australian …

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