A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian <!-- Inset Box Content --> Apathetic Sarah takes Julie Bishop’s latest pronouncement to its logical conclusion Apparantly, out of the blue everyone has come to the conclusion - via the Petrol Kommisionar - that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Niall Cook and Joshua Gans have their say. Pommygranate criticises the critics of the most recent marijuana decriminalisation scheme. Read more »

As many of you know, I’m usually around Troppo for Missing Link purposes, and it’s Missing Link that can take a great deal of the credit for Legal Eagle and I heading off on a new joint blogging venture. Jacques Chester - Troppo’s redoubtable blog admin - can also take a bunch of the credit, as we’re hosted on his Ozblogistan server (along with Andrew Norton). Read more »

A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Read more »

A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian   Read more »

One of my grand kids is studying economics at the University and, to help him with an essay on current macroeconomic policy in Australia, he asked me three rather pertinent questions.. 1. If there is an inflation problem which is overwhelmingly supply-side driven, as we now seem to have in Australia, and if everyone expects a significant slow-down in domestic demand in the year or two ahead, why are the Reserve Bank and the Government responding (or planning to respond) with demand-deflation policies? That is not what my textbooks tell me is the right response. Read more »