Gerard Jackson

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• The Humble Light Bulb: A Victim of Political Stupidity and Green Zealotry

  Published 27 July 2008 | viewed 3,256 times

  Every journalist in the land seems to be going ga-ga over the new "energy saver globe". This is the eco-friendly alternative to the devilish and…

• Oil Prices, Monetary Stability and Credit Expansion

  Published 20 July 2008 | viewed 3,077 times

  I would like to say that economic commentary on the present energy situation is an improvement on what has gone on before. As I said,…

• Bernanke's Keynesianitis Could Sink the US Economy

  Published 13 July 2008 | viewed 3,683 times

  The present state of the US economy has a number of economic commentators pointing an accusing finger at Bernanke. He has been charged with damaging…

• Inflation and Wages -- Another Dangerous Economic Fallacy

  Published 22 June 2008 | viewed 3,481 times

  Economic fallacies are like dormant microbes, sooner or later they once again become active. However, the view that wages can cause inflation is one fallacy…

• Our Lousy Monetary Policy and Economic Commentary

  Published 15 June 2008 | viewed 3,127 times

  Some readers think I'm exaggerating the dismal state of economic debate in Australia. Alas, if that were only true. Last April The Australian referred to…

• KPMG Gets it Wrong on Consumption and Investment

  Published 08 June 2008 | viewed 3,036 times

  For years I have been stressing the media's lousy economics. For those readers who think I have been exaggerating the situation allow me to introduce…

• Consumer Spending Wont Save the US Economy

  Published 02 June 2008 | viewed 3,392 times

  Regardless of the spiteful attempts of the Democrats and a corrupt media, the US economy is not going to sink into a depression. (When in…

• Inflation Accelerates While the Reserve Plays Guessing Games

  Published 25 May 2008 | viewed 4,975 times

  The CPI now stands at an annual rate of 4.3 per cent (1.3 per cent over the Reserve's maximum target rate). And what does Governor…

• Ill-Omens Haunt the US Economy

  Published 18 May 2008 | viewed 4,348 times

  One can only blame bad economics for the confusion about the current state and direction of the US economy. Because the economic commentariat have swallowed…

• The 2000 Recession Can Tell Us a Lot About Today's US Economy

  Published 12 May 2008 | viewed 2,694 times

  Some readers have been asking how "Austrian economic analysis held up during the last recession". Brilliantly, is the answer. It successfully described the emergence of…

• Bernanke Gets It Wrong

  Published 05 May 2008 | viewed 4,560 times

  Since the 2000 election America's leftwing mainstream media has tried to pump out a stream of bad economic news. According to this mob of political…

• Dire Warnings of an Economic Collapse Plague the US Economy

  Published 27 April 2008 | viewed 5,714 times

  The cause of the current economic problems is very simple: Bad economics. Instead of closely examining the monetary theory that got us into this mess…

• The US Needs a Good Dose of Supply-side Economics

  Published 20 April 2008 | viewed 3,962 times

  Since last September the Fed has slashed the fed funds rate by 300 basis points to 2.25 per cent. Will there be anymore cuts? Not…

• Surpluses Won't Save the Australian Economy

  Published 13 April 2008 | viewed 2,890 times

  No matter how economically fallacious an argument is someone somewhere will ceaselessly parrot it. The latest one is that there is no reason for the…

• US Economy, Commodity Prices and the Trade Cycle

  Published 06 April 2008 | viewed 2,897 times

  The current economic situation brings to mind 1999 when worries about the state of the US economy were piling up faster than rationalisations about the…

• Will Bernanke's Cuts Save the US Economy?

  Published 31 March 2008 | viewed 3,359 times

  In the hope of averting a credit crunch and recession Bernanke recently slashed the federal funds rate by 0.75 per cent, bringing it down to…

• Savings and the American Economy

  Published 23 March 2008 | viewed 3,767 times

  A while ago David Malpass, financial writer and chief economist at Bear Stearns, (and I do mean that Bear Stearns) argued that US savings are…

• A Monetary Storm Hits US Economy

  Published 16 March 2008 | viewed 5,207 times

  The current monetary crisis has brought forth an avalanche of opinions on what President Bush and the Fed need to do to arrest the dollar's…

• Can Supply-side Economics Save the US Economy?

  Published 09 March 2008 | viewed 3,495 times

  Current trends in the US economy are worrying a lot of people -- and so they should. Unfortunately worrying never solved any problems, only action…

• The US Economy: Been There Before

  Published 24 February 2008 | viewed 4,422 times

  There are times when in order to find out where we are we need to discover how we got there. And this is certainly the…