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Tuesday graphs: Australians work a lot, given the wages on offer | Apocalypse of Thomas
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Economics, politics and other dispatches from the Australian scene. Larr; Class warfare, payroll tax edition. Links to some recent writing. Tuesday graphs: Australians work a lot, given the wages on offer. August 25, 2015. The Germans work much less than you’d expect; the Mexicans much more:. This doesn’t mean that we should or shouldn’t have more public holidays, of course but it does give us an idea of how hard Australians work compared to other advanced economies. August 25, 2015 at 3:51 am.
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Links to some recent writing | Apocalypse of Thomas
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Economics, politics and other dispatches from the Australian scene. Larr; Tuesday graphs: Australians work a lot, given the wages on offer. Carbon tax doomsday cult reassembles! The world ends in 2030 now.). Links to some recent writing. August 11, 2015. Free trade agreement modelling:. I take a look at the government’s commissioned modelling. For the China-Australia free trade agreement and say ‘meh’. The metaphors of money:. I give a mixed review. Foreign investment in Australia:. Not just the big ones.
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September | 2015 | Apocalypse of Thomas
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Economics, politics and other dispatches from the Australian scene. Class warfare, payroll tax edition. September 5, 2015. I habitually mock journalists who descant upon the theme of ‘reform’ without specifying what exactly they want amended or why so due credit to Peter van Onselen, who had a go at saying, in moderate detail, what he thought should be done to the Australian tax system. But the real problem I have with Van Onselen’s column is the suggestion that payroll taxes replace company taxes. Compa...
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October | 2016 | Apocalypse of Thomas
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Economics, politics and other dispatches from the Australian scene. Tear down those walls. October 3, 2016. Jess Irvine wrote a piece. On the weekend about what would happen to the Australian economy, and to Australian society, if immigration were shut off. This seemed to enrage. A bunch of people on Twitter, provided further confirmation. Of my surprisingly robust theory that Andrew Bolt is illiterate, and provoked this detailed response. First of all, it’s worth pointing out that a long-term decline in...
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Economics, politics and other dispatches from the Australian scene. There are special circumstances, but Singapore’s growth is still pretty incredible. March 24, 2015. And in some ways, it’s the incredible growth that makes you wonder whether in fact it has all that many useful lessons for other Asian countries. Earlier today Tom Pepinsky posted a rather curious bit. Read the rest of this entry ». Debt bomb debt bomb, you’re my debt bomb (on the debt-to-GDP ratio). March 1, 2015. You can’t blame a ...
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February | 2015 | Apocalypse of Thomas
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Economics, politics and other dispatches from the Australian scene. Fitting an elephant with John Black. February 7, 2015. That John Black: he’s a genius. Today in the. Well, the ALP didn’t appeal to “South African migrants” who are paying back mortgage debt, obviously. Read the rest of this entry ». Marine le Pen as General Boulanger. February 5, 2015. Joseph Reinach, my translation.). Tear down those walls. Class warfare, payroll tax edition. Follow Apocalypse of Thomas on WordPress.com.
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July | 2015 | Apocalypse of Thomas
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Economics, politics and other dispatches from the Australian scene. Electricity is $550 a year cheaper. Or $60,000. Or $200. Or whatever. July 27, 2015. Pick a number between 1 and 10. Now multiply it by ten. Now multiply it by ten again. Now add some non-negative integer. Under Freedom of Information, Treasury released documents last week that showed the electricity prices have come down $550 per household as a result of us abolishing the carbon tax. But this is the carbon tax debate, baby! Inconvenienc...
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Tear down those walls | Apocalypse of Thomas
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Economics, politics and other dispatches from the Australian scene. Class warfare, payroll tax edition. Tear down those walls. October 3, 2016. Jess Irvine wrote a piece. On the weekend about what would happen to the Australian economy, and to Australian society, if immigration were shut off. This seemed to enrage. A bunch of people on Twitter, provided further confirmation. Of my surprisingly robust theory that Andrew Bolt is illiterate, and provoked this detailed response. First of all, it’s worth poin...
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Carbon tax doomsday cult reassembles! (The world ends in 2030 now.) | Apocalypse of Thomas
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Economics, politics and other dispatches from the Australian scene. Larr; Links to some recent writing. Electricity is $550 a year cheaper. Or $60,000. Or $200. Or whatever. Carbon tax doomsday cult reassembles! The world ends in 2030 now.). August 10, 2015. It turns out they just got the calculations a little wrong. Four years or so ago, we went through what Australia’s fanatical centrists usually insist on calling a. Anyway, four years ago, there were going to be three million families suffering. They ...
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December | 2014 | Apocalypse of Thomas
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Economics, politics and other dispatches from the Australian scene. Sentences I liked in 2014. December 29, 2014. Stealing a good idea from my betters (how else is one supposed to write), I thought I’d gather together some of my Kindle highlights from books I read this year. The books weren’t necessarily books that were released this year, by the way: just the ones I ended up reading. Another Day of Life. Ending in Earnest: A Literary Log. The House of Lords during the Asquith government:. 8220;In normal...
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