CFMEU just one part of a dysfunctional, high-cost industry – Weekly Roundup
Jul 20, 2024
Is the CFMEU just one small part of a dysfunctional and high-cost industry, is Australia immune from populist demagogues, can the Reserve Bank read the market signals, can ABC journalists stop talking about “a cost-of-living crisis”? Read on for the weekly roundup of links to articles, podcasts, reports and other media on current economic and political issues.
Unemployment is still creeping upwards – surely that will satisfy the RBA. Australians are economically mobile, but for how long? Low productivity – the legacy of indolent Coalition governments. What water metres have to do with housing supply. Our poor CEOs struggling to get by on $4 million salaries.
How the ascent of populist demagogues in the US and Europe is forcing us to confront the threats to democracy.
Spivs with fingers in the till – the construction industry and sports betting. The lousy deal we have given our kids. Will a visit from a foreign monarch stir the republican movement from its slumbers?
The scientific method applied to the scientific method. The human threat to artificial intelligence. The difficulty of fitting human capital into the framework of economics.
Ian McAuley is a retired lecturer in public finance at the University of Canberra. He can be contacted at “ian" at the domain “ianmcauley.com” .
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