federal government

Australian Federal Government Taking Over Healthcare

Posted on March 23rd, 2010 in ACCC, aus, aussie dollar, Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, Australian property, bhp billiton, cent, federal government, healthcare, kevin rudd, Market News, micro cap, obama, perth, Rio Tinto, taxation

Before we get on to today’s non-property related edition of Money Morning a very brief follow-up to yesterday’s edition.
First of all, we’ve re-read it, and do you know what, it seems a little disjointed. After two weeks of a property famine, on reflection we think we tried to cram in too much – must [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Read post Add your comment

Christopher Joye Suggests Mortgage Repayments Comprise 10% of Household Disposable Income

Posted on February 24th, 2010 in AFR, aus, aussie dollar, cent, Christopher Joye, federal government, GDP, household disposable income, household economic debt, insulation, Market News, micro cap, mortgage debt, mortgage repayments, perth, RBA, Reserve Bank of Australia, rudd, Steve Keen, stimulus package

Before we get on to today’s Money Morning, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to scoff at the further incompetence of government.
As you know, the federal government has spent billions on the stimulus package on the justification it will ‘create’ jobs. Well, now the insulation debacle has been cancelled, what else would a free-spending [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Read post Add your comment

A Look at the Public and So-called Private Health System

Posted on February 24th, 2010 in aus, aussie dollar, cent, federal government, health system, Market News, Medicare, micro cap, perth, private health system, public health system

You know we like to give the public and so-called private health system a box around the ears from time to time.
The way we look at it, someone’s got to do it. You won’t find a pollie or a mainstream journo suggesting there should be any cuts to the $50 billion spent each year [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Read post Add your comment