http://mumble.com.au/?p=1758 Politics Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:23:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://mumble.com.au/?p=1758&cpage=1#comment-2238 Nick Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:50:08 +0000 http://mumble.com.au/?p=1758#comment-2238 That's a good article. Another, and potentially more serious problem, is that by making a major issue of the (largely imagined) evils of all government debt the Coalition is locking itself into a de-facto policy of running continuous balanced or surplus budgets (rather than maintaining the bi-partisan consensus on balancing the budget over the course of business cycles). This would be a major problem if its the party in power next time there's a recession... That’s a good article. Another, and potentially more serious problem, is that by making a major issue of the (largely imagined) evils of all government debt the Coalition is locking itself into a de-facto policy of running continuous balanced or surplus budgets (rather than maintaining the bi-partisan consensus on balancing the budget over the course of business cycles). This would be a major problem if its the party in power next time there’s a recession…

]]> http://mumble.com.au/?p=1758&cpage=1#comment-2225 Pat Hills Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:39:56 +0000 http://mumble.com.au/?p=1758#comment-2225 Mike Rann on the comeback trail Peter? Mike Rann on the comeback trail Peter?

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