Finance, Banking, Monetary Systems
Research into why a sound financial and monetary system is critical for economic prosperity continues to be an ongoing project at the CIS.
Publications
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TARGET30: Reducing the burden for future generations
| 01 Jul 2013 | Policy ForumTARGET30 is a campaign promoting smaller government and cutting government spending to less than 30% of GDP in the next 10... Read More...
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Australia’s Future Fiscal Shock
| 28 Sep 2012 | Issue AnalysisGovernment is facing the arduous task of securing sustainable expenditure, revenue and debt beyond the current four-year... Read More...
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Regulation or Strangulation? Banking After the Global Financial Crisis
| 12 Jun 2012 | Policy ForumInadequate regulation of finance has taken much of the blame for the global financial crisis, leading governments around... Read More...
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The Condensed Wealth of Nations and The Incredibly Condensed Theory of Moral Sentiments
| 12 Jun 2012 | Occasional PapersIn The Condensed Wealth of Nations, Eamonn Butler condenses Adam Smith’s work and explains the key concepts in The Wealth... Read More...
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Flight of the Kiwi: Addressing the Brain Drain
| 27 Mar 2012 | Policy ForumWhy are so many New Zealanders flocking to Australian shores, and what can be done to stop the so-called Kiwi ‘brain drain’? In... Read More...
Opinion & Commentary
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Why tax-free imports are a retail red herring
| 24 Jun 2013 | Business SpectatorRetailers would be better served lobbying government for policies other than raising inefficient taxes on low value imports.... Read More
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Increasing the super contribution rate is a second-rate solution
| 08 Jan 2013 | The ConversationIt is timely to re-examine the economic case for compulsory superannuation.... Read More
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Better ideas than raising super guarantee
| 28 Nov 2012 | Australian Financial ReviewIs compulsory super improving retirement incomes and reducing future demands on the budget from an ageing population?... Read More
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Fairness is not equality
| 26 Nov 2012 | Australian Financial ReviewIncome equality is not achievable, it is not desirable and it is not fair.... Read More
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Self-sustaining leviathan
| 23 Oct 2012 | ON LINE OpinionHow does Australia compare in the welfare dependency stakes?... Read More
Ideas@TheCentre
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The elusive budget surplus
| 17 May 2013The idea that we will have a balanced budget by 2015-16 should be met with healthy scepticism....
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Fiscal fixes
| 03 May 2013Australia has a size-of-government problem rather than a revenue shortfall....
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The end of austerity?
| 19 Apr 2013Saddling future generations with lower growth and higher taxes while they repay debts incurred to fund our short-term consumption ...
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Tax freedom at last
| 05 Apr 2013This Sunday marks Tax Freedom Day; the day in the year when Australians stop working for the government....
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Fiscal sausages
| 11 Jan 2013What emerged from Congress on the first day of 2013 is as unpalatable as the worst-made sausage....
