Gerard Jackson

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• Is Supply-side Economics Driving the US Economy?

  Published 16 May 2006 | viewed 4,578 times

  In his article Wild on the Supply-Side R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr attempted to explain how the Bush tax cuts are an of example supply-side economics…

• The Australian Economy and Recession

  Published 08 May 2006 | viewed 5,624 times

  For some sometime now I have been warning that it is my belief that the Australian economy reached its peak a while ago and that…

• Is Free Trade Destroying Manufacturing and Exporting Jobs?

  Published 01 May 2006 | viewed 3,642 times

  Two economic fallacious are gaining ground in Australia. The first one is that free trade is hollowing out the economy: the second one has that…

• The US Economy: Things about Manufacturing and Free Trade that you have not been told

  Published 27 April 2006 | viewed 4,125 times

  Many economists hold to the view that when the NAICU (non-accelerating inflation rate of capacity utilisation) reaches 82 per cent inflation will pick up in…

• The Return of Robert Shiller's Irrational Exuberance

  Published 11 April 2006 | viewed 5,705 times

  Robert Shiller's book Irrational Exuberance made quite a splash when it appeared on the scene back in 2000. It now seems that it is about…

• Keynesian Nostrums Still Plague the US Economy

  Published 28 March 2006 | viewed 4,501 times

  That Keynesianism is still the prevailing orthodoxy among the economic commentariat is plain to see. What is not so plain is the consequences of this…

• How the Fed's Price Rule Triggers Recessions

  Published 14 March 2006 | viewed 5,293 times

  Economic commentary is in a very poor state. Every change in the unemployment figures, consumer spending, the deficit, output, etc., is examined in the same…

• What's Driving the US Economy?

  Published 08 March 2006 | viewed 8,700 times

  The current US boom is the strangest in US history. Despite rising consumption, investment and employment a large number of Americans are convinced that the…

• GDP's Gross Misconceptions about the Australian and US Economies

  Published 20 February 2006 | viewed 5,984 times

  It was reported that Tony Pearson, ANZ head of Australian economics, claimed that Australia was becoming two economies, with the mineral-rich states booming while the…

• The Commodities Boom and China: The Missing Ingredient

  Published 20 January 2006 | viewed 6,784 times

  A great deal has been said about the current commodity boom -- nearly all of it wrong. As usual so-called analysts fell into the trap…

• US Economy and Productivity: Some Truths and Fallacies

  Published 02 January 2006 | viewed 4,948 times

  Economics is a highly theoretical discipline with particular characteristics of its own, the main one being that economic problems tend to require long chains of…

• Clinton's Boom Holds Lessons for Bush

  Published 28 December 2005 | viewed 5,593 times

  It is true that there were disturbing parallels between the US economy of the 1990s and that of the 1980s Japanese economy. It is equally…