Ross Gittins

3 days ago | smh.com.au | Ross Gittins

Economics Editor May 12, 2025 — 12.15am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Economist Paul Krugman’s endlessly repeated maxim that “productivity isn’t everything but, in the long run, it’s almost everything” has deluded far too many of the economics profession’s conventional thinkers. It’s a throwaway line that should be thrown away.

4 days ago | johnmenadue.com | Ross Gittins

Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock must be breathing a quiet sigh of relief now the Albanese Government has been triumphantly returned to office. If you can’t think why she should be relieved, you’re helping make my point. There was something strange in all the accusations hurled at Labor for doing little or nothing to ease the great cost-of-living pain so many voters had suffered over the three years of its first term in office. And that was? Never once did Peter Dutton mention the Reserve Bank.

6 days ago | johnmenadue.com | Ross Gittins

If the Liberals have any sense, they won’t waste too much time blaming their shocking election result on Peter Dutton, Donald Trump, Cyclone Alfred, the party secretariat, an unready shadow ministry or any other “proximate cause”, as economists say. Why not? Because none of these go to the heart of their party’s problem. The Liberals’ problem is that Australia has changed, but their party hasn’t.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Ross Gittins

Economics Editor May 7, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If the Liberals have any sense, they won’t waste too much time blaming their shocking election result on Peter Dutton, Donald Trump, Cyclone Alfred, the party secretariat, an unready shadow ministry or any other “proximate cause”, as economists say. Why not? Because none of these go to the heart of their party’s problem.

1 week ago | theage.com.au | Ross Gittins

Opinion May 7, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If the Liberals have any sense, they won’t waste too much time blaming their shocking election result on Peter Dutton, Donald Trump, Cyclone Alfred, the party secretariat, an unready shadow ministry or any other “proximate cause”, as economists say. Why not? Because none of these go to the heart of their party’s problem.