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Dean Baker

The Rudd Essay & the Global Financial Crisis

POLITICS | AIG | Australian Economy | Finance | Hedge fund | Kevin Rudd | The Global Financial Crisis | Unemployment | The Monthly Essays | May 2009

Dean Baker

The Monthly

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has in his essay given us a bold statement about the nature of the current economic crisis, and laid out an ambitious agenda in response to the crisis. Unfortunately, the diagnosis of the problem is not entirely on target and therefore the response is not fully adequate to...

Dean Baker

For the first time in decades, Australia will go to an election with neither of the major parties offering tax cuts. In fact, both will take a new tax to the polls in the form of a levy to fund the national disability insurance scheme. Pre...

Woolwich attack: terror returns to Britain's streets "What they were witnessing was not a suburban road accident, but the most brutal murder imaginable, as two Al-Qaeda inspired Islamic terrorists hacked at their victim 'like...