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With Parliament set to wind up in the coming week and the ructions of an explosive year beginning to fade, the reality of a more featureless landscape in the next two years is becoming clearer.
Such apparent predictability seems almost foreign after 2010 which kicked off with the game-changing retreat on emissions trading and then lurched from one crisis to the next - think the rise and fall of the mining super-profits tax, various boat controversies, the spectacular Rudd / Gillard coup, and of course the closest election in history.
Nonetheless, barring the disappearance of the Government's numbers in some unforseen crisis of confidence, 2011 and 2012 should by rights be years of sound governance - unaffected by elections. The country needs it and in their own ways, both leaders are depending on it too.
Tony Abbott for example wants no home-grown excitement as he defies history to become the first Liberal to survive long enough after a loss to contest the next election. He needs to perform but must guard against over-reach of the typed that effectively killed off his predecessor, Malcolm Turnbull.
Julia Gillard wants no excitement either. Her aim consolidation via the delivery of stable, yet rigorous government. As one indsider said, ``now we have to under-promise and over-deliver''. For both, it's all about line and length.
But the absence of major attention-stealing events will bring its own dangers for a government that has shown little stomach for the hard grind and for a polity now accustomed to a high sugar diet.
In essence, the task for Labor now is to recast its understanding of the journey. Instead of falling for the past vanity that it must win every evening's TV news bulletins and never do anything that threatens its polling supremacy, it should steel itself for the opposite path. This involves viewing the electoral term as a whole - being prepared to take tough decisions and be unpopular for them, possibly for an extended period, while cementing in place serious reforms likely to get a tick from voters down the track.
This begins with the May budget. Now that it is clear of the global financial crisis, the Government should be considering how to set itself up in its middle and final year. A more rapid re-building of the country's fiscal position after the pump-priming of recent years is the priority.
The recent Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) showed that despite declinig revenue, the promised 2012/13 surplus of $3.5 billion, is safe although dropping fractionally to around $3.0 billion. Wayne Swan called it ``the fastest fiscal consolidation since the 1960s". That's not bad considering the depths of the crisis, the extent of protective spending, and the comparative state of other economies.
But voters will sense that it is too easy - a function not of serious fiscal restraint but of Australia's extraordinary good luck in being a major supplier to the Chinese economic behemoth. Let's be frank, this is what is pushing growth trends well above the international average. An OECD report released yesterday projected 3.3 per cent growth for Australia in 2010 and 3.6 per cent in 2011, compared to the OECD area as a whole with rates of 2.8 and 2.3 per cent respectively. It forecasts our jobless rate at just 4.9 per cent in 2011 compared to 8.1 per cent expected for the OECD.
Much of this is due to China's insatiable appetite for our resources but it is also, to be fair, a solid vindication of the Government's stimulus spending. Yet even here, there is a political downside.
While the Opposition won't agree, it actually took some guts to splash out tens of billions on stimulus payments fresh from winning an election by claiming to be economic conservatives. Yes the big spending ate into the Budget big-time, but it also cost Labor some of its new-found economic management cred with voters. And as the 2010 election showed, they were not minded to reward the Government for its success.
The task facing Ms Gillard, Mr Swan and new Finance Minister, Penny Wong is to rebuild this credibility. And there is no time like the first budget after an election to do it. Just as they had to overspend in the crisis to jump-start confidence and buoy the mood, they may now need to go the other way by seriously cutting to entrench a new sense of fiscal discipline.
Access Economics Director, Chris Richardson is one urging them on. He says cuts could put downward pressure on interest rates, but warns they would need to be big and fast because fiscal policy is not that good at relieving interest rate pressure. There would be other benefits though.
``The best reason for doing something in the Budget is we're wasting money,'' he says.
He nominates industry welfare such as the Green Car Fund and the proposed ``cash for clunkers'' scheme as candidates for the chop.
He also pins middle-class welfare arguing many payments cut out only when the family income is over $150,000.
``That's just not tough enough, if you want to restrict the wealth payments to those who need it then you have to be tougher than that.''
Finally, he says tax breaks for high income individuals including generous treatment of superannuation, and FBT, is another ``a target-rich environment for saving money''.
John Howard ordered swingeing spending cuts in 1996. Indeed they were so severe the Canberra property market took a dive because so many public services jobs were cut. The austerity drive almost cost John Howard the 1998 election but even now he credits those tough decisions with setting him up both politically and economically in the longer term.
Julia Gillard take heed: even though the Budget is trending back to surplus, you need to show some extra grit economically - particularly as the Opposition will continue with its debt/deficit/waste campaigns.
On this front, Labor remains vulnerable first because its main initiative this term is the gargantuan $43 billion national broadband network (about which public doubts appear to be increasing). The Opposition strategy is based on re-positioning the NBN as the next school halls/ pink batts debacle and with that much money involved and Labor's recent record, why not?
Second, as MYEFO and the OECD show, the economy is now nudging against full capacity - in other words, the risks have now swung to the upside: high inflation requiring ever higher interests rates. We know how voters will view that in 2012/13.
In short, the Government's success in driving its political and economic bank accounts into credit in 2013, depend to a large degree on the courage it shows in its first Budget.
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Wayne Fehlhaber says:
Ironically , the resourses boom with China is lending the Gillard/Swan govt. economic credibility which is severely misplaced . Just as Labor claimed the Howard/Costello govt.'s economic credentials rested on the resourses boom.
Labor's weakness in allowing itself to be dragged off the economic priorities on to petty side issues will be it's undoing . The Greeens radical plans and policies whilst in a position of power over the Gillard govt. will ultimately destroy Labor as sure as the sun rises.
nosthow says:
Full steam ahead for the Gillard Labor government Mark even if a little constrained by the new paridigm. Not an easy task ahead but the good news for Labor is the Opposition are a ragged mob who are just coming to the realisation that the wonder boy Abbott has led them back to Opposition for another 3 years ! Oh yeah how sweet it is ! Of course with the likes of the nasty Scott Morrison mouthing anti asylum seeker/humanity platitudes daily the task to hold government is made a little easier.
Shane From Melbourne says:
Hell, no Prime Minister since Keating has taken the tough decisions- remember compulsory superannuation, floating the dollar, dismantling tariffs? Howard's legacy was the building of the middle class welfare state, subsidizing property price increases through the first home buyers grant. Rudd and Gillard's legacy is years of drift. Hard to believe that it has been almost 15 years since Australia has had a decent Prime Minister willing to make the tough decisions…..
Rosie says:
Why is it always the middle-class earners, those of us that bust our guts doing all that is right for the well-being of our families that are first to be affected when it comes to cuts???????
My daughter, a single parent after losing her husband to cancer works damm hard for the big pay! "Big pay comes the big responsibility" She is financially independent and can easily support her two children with our help in taking care of the kids while she works. We do it without any finacial help from the Govt because we know she cannot do the job without our help.
Julia Gillard became PM under a lot of controversy so it is a wonder we now have a "debt/deficit/waste" Govt. It will always be controversial all the way, the important issues will never get done because she will spend her time trying to justify why she should remain in power.
We don't want the NBN, our daughter & son don't need the NBN to see that their children, ( Australia's future generation ) have a good education and are employed in whatever chosen career they decide on just like their parents and grandparents. Like us, through their jobs can provide for their families.
Spend the money on making the country's education more effective for all Australian children to be given the best chance ever to be employed in the future. Effective teaching is more important than the big expensive school halls etc!
Joan says:
2011- 2012 - The housing property bubble will pop right on Labor Gillard face…. the way it did in USA and Japan. Australian Treasury very nervous as reported in `Australian.` The result of Artiffcial stimulation- since Howard started it will burst with a massive pop….1990 ...gave us the recession we had to have . 2000 the begining of artificial property stimulation 2010… Treasury warning of big bang - property bubble bust…... POP go property values - sink like Japanese and USA markets
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Gillard's downfall will come from her own intransigence. E.g. the NBN business plan. Can anyone explain to me why a report commissioned by the Government and paid for by we the people, whether 4 or 400 pages should be withheld from the Opposition, who have an equal duty to peruse, consider and understand the report ON OUR BEHALF. Meanwhile the Government tries to gain some advantage, paper up the cracks, etc., before revealing the substance.
It should be mandatory that such a report is available to both sides of the house, to ensure that informed and adequate debate takes place.
This one is going to bit her on that ample bum.
Julia should get rid of her own three-word-slogan - "Three Word Slogan" - and start "Moving Forward" very quickly if she is to survive in her own party room.
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Look, projecting a surplus in 3 years time is all well and good; but no-one, absolutely no-one knows what is going to happen in the meantime. 3 years is over 1000 days away , and something unpredictable will happen between now and then that renders this budget forecast for a surplus erroneous.
Everyone thinks that the mining boom will continue on for the next 20 years as if its fiat accompli. Well, yes there is a good chance that it will, but it might not, and I don't think its prudent to count chickens before they hatch.
Therefore, I call upon the government to (finally) prove that they actually are fiscally responsible by balancing the budget NOW, not in 3 years time. Don't lack courage Swan, balance the books TODAY. It didn't take any courage to mail $900 cheques to every man, woman and corpse. I've yet to meet a voter who wasn't stoked to receive free cash. No, what would really take courage would be to eliminate the deficit NOW, even at the risk of the economy contracting.
A short, sharp recession I believe is a preferable alternative to a long, drawn out period of stagnation or stagflation. A lot of people don't realise it, but recessions are actually economic medicine. They flush out all the malinvestment from an economy and rebalance it, making it lean and lithe and primed for fresh growth. Its like the bushfire that rages through the forest, preparing the way for green shoots of new growth to emerge.
We're in need of an economic realignment and re-harmonision. Too much capital has been invested in inflated residential properties and not enough capital has been invested in productive manufacturing or agricultural enterprises. We have to take some hard steps now to sort out our economy so that we are not taking the mining boom for granted and being held hostage to the autocratic whim of Chinese demand.
Gregg says:
Hell Mark, where have you been the last few weeks for this thought of a featureless landscape being reality is somewhat some wishful thinking I'd reckon.
The moving forward cartwheel on emissions trading can go anywhere and take higher services/product costs for all along for the ride, the mining super profits tax is hardly a done deal and not only are boats still coming, the suicides, lip stitching, hunger strikes and conflict in many detention centres including just recently Melbourne do not make putting 1600 fellas together in Northam look any better than what Northam residents feel it will be and of course the NBN is about to be shown for what it is and that's the greatest public expenditure waste this nation has ever seen.In all likelihood there could well be either a new Labor leader and/or a new government come 2011 and so predictability is hardly the call.
For sure we need some sound government, something we are a long long way from achieving and the recession that could quite easily become a global depression may not be too far from our doorstep.All the fast broadband that people will cast aside as a luxury will do no good for maintaining basics like water, food production and medical services at a time when global pressures may even see an acceleration in people smuggling.
The current government has firmly set out the you are more than welcome agenda and so we should not at all be surprised if more and more people start hopping into boats from further afield, Africa for instanceThere is unpredictability in the moving forward down the Gillard paved road to that banana republic one of her predecessors spoke of and hopefully further unpredictability on how we achive change.
MickeyK says:
@Joan, Ireland is another example. of what you fear. Ideally the government would do something to stop property prices rising for the next decade or so to try to bring them back into line with the long term value to income trend without the current bubble bursting, but I can't see this happening.
Rick says:
One of the more thoughtful articles on the political landscape I have read in a while. The penny has finally dropped for the coalition that there will be no early changeover of government and no early election. The government, barring something unforeseen, will run full term. You are correct to say that at the end of the 3 years the runs will have to be on the board. Gillard, in her negotiations with the Independents, showed her strong negotiating skills - exactly the skills that will be required to get things through the parliament during this term. The electorate gave us a finely divided parliament - the parliamentarians have to make it work. Those who wilflully seek to wreck it will pay a heavy price.
Theo Racle says:
Seems to me the Gillard government should take a step back and see the wood for trees. Hard times are coming,put their excessive spend ups on the backburner and wait patiently to guide Australia through the second coming of the G.F.C. I have no facts to back my reasoning other than observing the lower end of the fiscal regime,people are doing it very tough,prices are escalating way beyond any official inflation figure,the last interest rate rise has pressured the camel,s back to the point of collapse. If you don,t believe me ,take a savage paycut and try to survive on it.
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ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National Tank Truck Carriers today named eight professional tank truck drivers as finalists in the selection process to become the recipient of the prestigious Usher Award recognizing the tank truck industry's professional driver of the year. The award is named for William A. Usher, Sr. of Louisville-based Usher Transport, Inc., for his extensive career in and service to the tank truck industry. NTTC member Baldwin & Lyons, Inc. is the official sponsor of the Award.
"The strength of the entire group made the judging process very, very difficult. Each and every applicant should be proud of their performance and commitment to safety. I encourage all NTTC members to participate next year in our annual Driver of the Year Award," said NTTC Chairman Jim Shaeffer.
"Congratulations are due to our finalists, as well as all of our applicants in this first year of our program," said NTTC President Daniel R. Furth. "With over 20,898,124 collective accident free miles, our finalists truly represent the best of the best in the most challenging of all trucking segments."
Finalists include the following professional drivers:
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Allen Blair |
Miller Transporters |
Petal, MS |
Robert Coverson |
Dupre Logistics, LLC |
Missouri City, TX |
Ronald Evans |
Liquid Cargo, Inc. |
Crown Point, IN |
Ronald Hawkins |
K-Limited Carrier LTD |
Perrysburg, OH |
Benjamin Robbins, Jr. |
Quality Distribution |
Salem, NJ |
James Starr |
Groendyke Transport |
Wichita, KS |
Robert Stevens |
McKenzie Tank Lines |
Panama City, FL |
Robert Weller |
Hahn Transportation |
Monrovia, MD |
Finalists will now move forward to the final round of the selection process, which will be held January 30, 2014 in Arlington, Va. A panel of industry officials will judge the contestants on their knowledge of the trucking industry, dedication to safety, ability to communicate the industry's messages, and overall safe driving record.
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One expert explains how splitting up can bring couples together.
Recent surveys show that more couples are sleeping separately, and while some may think this would create a bar in intimacy, it's actually saving relationships.
In fact, sleeping separately is becoming so common that the National Association of Home Builders expects that 60 percent of custom-built homes will include dual master bedrooms in the year 2015.
A study from the National Sleep Foundation found that 25 percent of couples in the U.S. sleep separately; similarly, a recent British survey found that one in 10 British couples also sleep in separate beds. The Heart Beat talked to relationship expert Dr. Tracey Marks, the author of Master Your Sleep. She advocates separate sleeping and tells us why it's a good idea for some couples.
"With some couples, one partner is severely sleep deprived because the other partner keeps them awake with snoring, restlessness, keeping the room too hot, etc.," Dr. Marks tells us. "If the sleep deprivation makes you cranky, it's going to affect your relationship and you would be better off sleeping in a different bed so you can be in a better mood with your partner."
Conventionally, the notion of sleeping in the same bed is thought to create intimacy between spouses. But as Marks explains in a Huffington Post piece:
"While the media presents images of loving couples sleeping contentedly in each other's arms all night long, for many the reality is much different."
And she's right. A recent survey actually shows that couples fight 167 times a year in the bedroom. The number one cause of those fights is blanket hogging, followed by snoring and being too hot. These are all things that can easily be remedied by declaring your bedroom independence.
"The main problem arises when one partner feels rejected by it," Marks tells us. "Intellectually he may understand why it's a good idea, but he struggles with the idea that his partner doesn't want him. I think this is a more likely outcome when there are underlying relationship problems and sleeping apart just compounds the problems and makes things feel less intimate."
Her answer for proposing the idea is to make sure that you start with a "clean slate," otherwise sleeping apart could exacerbate whatever problems are happening in the relationship.
But what about sex?
"Sleeping in separate beds can't mean no more sex," Marks says. "Sex is for waking hours, so do it before you go to sleep so that sleep and sex are completely distinct entities."
Sounds easy enough. But as Marks mentioned, the media does present couples as bed-sharers, so there is a bit of a stigma with splitting up in the bedroom.
"People are going to take your lead in reacting to your situation," Dr. Marks tells us. "That is, if you are conflicted about it and mention it as though you are admitting some deep dark secret, the listener is going to respond that way…But if you are resolved that you are doing what's best for your relationship and both you and partner are fine with it, you can talk about it with confidence and emphasize how much more intimate your relationship is because of it."
And as for talking about it with your children, Marks advises:
"Whatever the reason is for needing to sleep separately, you emphasize the positive—dad and mom like it this way, mom and dad think it's important to get a good night's sleep, mom and dad like to cuddle in the same room while they are awake, but once we fall asleep we're not aware that we're not in the same bed, etc."
What do you think? Do you and your partner sleep in separate beds? Would you try it to keep from fighting in the bedroom?
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In my first marriage my ex and I spooned all night and woke up that way in the AM. Then I met someone who had never been married and when she said that she would like her own room when she got married, I said that was out of the question with me. It was a long distance relationship and we ended as friends. Damn Karmic retribution. I have re-married and now sleep in seperate beds in seperate rooms. It's a temperature thing plus my wife said that she feels me moving around and it wakes her up. I have restless leg syndrome. She also said that she wakes up when I get in and out of the bed to go to the bathroom,
BTW the first time that I took care of my restless leg problem while in bed and she was too tired for sexr I forgot to explain it to her first. She said that it upset her and I can understand why. However I showed her several articles that support this non-medication treatment. I'm serious that the orgasm will treat your RLS in an instant and it does not matter what sex that you are.
We sleep in separate bedrooms for all of the reasons mentioned. She has severe sleep apnea and restlesness and has recently started using a sleep machine. Sleeping next to her is like sleeping next to Darth Vader during an earthquake. Having different sleep schedules contributed to the problem. If anything, sex has been more frequent ... probably for a couple of reasons: 1) because we don't sleep together we force ourselves to have more together time and 2) we sleep better and as a result we have fewer instances where one of us feels too tired and worn out for sex.
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It's no secret our state is experiencing "financial stress", and many organizations in our neighborhoods have been negatively impacted. One such organization that depends on state funds is our Carroll County 4-H. With a vision of assuring the financial stability of this great youth organization, a group of community leaders has come together to form a County 4-H Foundation.
"4-H has been a part of our lives for many years, and we want to make sure it will be a program our kid's kids get involved in," John Bickelhaupt, Foundation President, states. "We believe through community support and donations, this Foundation can provide resources that will sustain the 4-H program in our county, regardless of the financial situation of our state."
The Foundation believes developing the right path for the future is the first step – and needs the help of community members to do so. "We are asking 4-H alumni, parents, volunteers and community members to fill out a survey. The results of this survey assist in defining our mission, values and initial strategic plan," indicated Bickelhaupt.
Take the Foundation's survey at this website: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WVRS3HC or call the University of Illinois Extension office at 815-244-9444 to request a paper copy of the survey. The survey will take approximately 10 minutes and must be completed and returned by Saturday, March 9th.
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On Monday, 24 hours after the Winter Olympics concluded in Sochi and on a day in which five NBA games and two superb college hoops games were taking place, NFL Scouting Combine results for Jadeveon Clowney and Michael Sam were the top stories on ESPN SportsCenter. That tells you all you need to know about how dominant the NFL is over its North American sports peers, regardless of what time of year it is.
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The Fredericksburg City Council went behind closed doors last week to discuss the convoluted courthouse complex project, but the public will soon get a chance to weigh in on the multimillion-dollar proposal.
A public hearing is slated for 7 p.m. May 17 at City Hall.
After that, the council will reconvene and evaluate the proposals, said Beverly Cameron, Fredericksburg city manager. He said the council then will whittle down the candidates and move to the next phase, in which the remaining firms will produce more detailed proposals.
Five design firms have provided eight proposals for the courthouse complex, which could cost as much as $40 million.
Cameron said the council also will conduct more work sessions, and likely additional closed sessions, before choosing the winning proposal. That might happen by late summer or early fall, he said.
The council was split over going into a closed session on Tuesday to discuss a consultant's report on the proposed courthouse project, but nonetheless voted to do so.
During a work session prior to the monthly meeting, council members Fred Howe III, Brad Ellis and Beatrice Paolucci voted against going into closed session to discuss the proposals.
They noted that the process thus far had been open, including cost estimates of the work, and wondered why talks had to suddenly be moved behind closed doors.
"This document is a taxpayer-paid-for document," Howe said. "At the end of the day, this is a public process."
If the closed session covered the entire report, it "would send a concerning message to the public," Ellis said.
For years the issue of building a new courthouse complex has been floated around different councils, and judges have pushed for it, saying Fredericksburg needs a more modern facility that meets security needs and can accommodate growing caseloads.
This council has gotten serious about the project, and heard proposals from the five firms last month.
The consultant's report on the proposals was compiled by Arcadis. Council members were given the report just recently, and some of them said they weren't able to give it a close reading prior to Tuesday.
During the work session, Mayor Tom Tomzak, Vice Mayor Mary Greenlaw and Council members Kerry Devine and George Solley voted to go into closed session, citing confidentiality and the desire for the city to maintain a competitive balance in the bidding process.
Solley said he didn't understand how the closed session could be construed as a way to keep information from the public.
City Attorney Kathleen Dooley said the important project details to be covered in the closed session would eventually become public.
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The process has become politicized, Tomzak said. "I've already seen email lobbying in this." The mayor said he had hoped to avoid that.
The five firms have proposed various options for the courthouse project, which would be the most expensive construction project in the city's history.
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Curl, now off the pro development tours, is battling back this week at the Torrington Country Club from a series of injuries.
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"It wasn't done in golf," Curl said. "I fell on a curb, coming out of the Alabama-LSU football game last year, the first one."
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The Q is in: Brian Quilter, of Farmingbury Hills and Barton College, made the cut with back-to-back rounds of even-par 72.
The Wolcott High grad was 3-over Tuesday with four holes to play and in need of a rally. So Quilter ran out and birdied Nos. 15, 16 and 18, and a birdie putt lipped out on 17.
Power trios: The CSGA has done a nice job this week of mixing and matching interesting and historically linked threesomes. For example, the tourney grouped three past Junior champions in Alex DiClemente of Fairview Farm, John VanDerLaan of Heritage Village and John Flaherty of TPC River Highlands.
The most championship muscle in a threesome may well have belonged to the group of Cody Paladino, this year's Amateur champ; Tommy McDonagh, a two-time Amateur champ, and Matt Smith, the 2012 Amateur champ.
The McDonagh-Paladino pairing was most interesting since the two dueled in that memorable 2006 Amateur final at Torrington, won by McDonagh in 39 holes.
"They did a great job on the groupings," McDonagh said. "We all go back a ways, and it was comfortable playing with Cody again. I remember in the final, off No. 8, I drove it into the ninth fairway, and I holed out for eagle. We were talking about that when we walked down the fairway.
"Cody and I are as competitive as it gets sometimes, but it was still a good time out there."
Local Lendl knowledge: Defending champ Jason Caron is three shots behind Curl heading into today's final, and his success this week is due in part to some help from a local legend at Torrington, tennis icon Ivan Lendl of Goshen.
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This manual explains what GDP and GNI and their components are and what they mean. It shows how they are used and what they are used for. And it does this in an easily understood way. Opening with a chapter showing how national accounts concepts relate to macroeconomics, the books goes on to systematically deal with volume and prices, international comparability, production, final uses, household accounts, business accounts, government accounts, and financial accounts. It also has chapter on how national accounts data are gathered and the history of the national accounts system. Three special chapters examine national accounts in China, India, and the United States. Previously published only in French, this manual has been revised and expanded to have a truly global perspective.
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The essential macroeconomic aggregates
In this first chapter, our aim is to give an initial definition of the essential macroeconomic variables, listed in the table below, and taken from the OECD Economic Outlook for December 2004.1 We have chosen to illustrate this chapter using the example of Germany, but we might as well have chosen any other OECD country, since the structure of the country chapters in the OECD Economic Outlook is the same for all countries.
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Distinguishing between volume and price increases
Everyone wants the maximum possible growth, although today that the preference is for "durable" or "sustainable" growth. The generic term "growth" indicates the overall change in the quantity of goods and services produced and made available to consumers and investors. The prime task of national accounts is to separate out, within the change in the observed monetary aggregates, the part of growth that stems from a change in quantities from the part that is due to a change in prices. An increase in quantities or, as the national accountants would say, in "volumes" is generally a good thing. A rise in prices, known as inflation, is not generally good news. A change in a monetary aggregate has accordingly very limited interest in the national accounts. However, it takes on economic significance when, to use the national accountants' jargon, one carries out its "volume/price breakdown". This is why this highly technical chapter comes first, even before those on output and final uses.
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International comparisons
In Chapter 2, we examined the comparability of data over time for the national accounts of a given country. We saw how to separate changes in volume from changes in prices. In this chapter, we shall examine the comparison of data among several countries. Inter-country comparisons are more difficult for at least three reasons: 1) despite the efforts to achieve international synchronization, the statistical methods for estimating national accounts variables can vary from one country to another; 2) individual countries' institutions can be different; and (3) countries do not have the same currency and the same price levels.
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Production: What it includes and excludes
Production is what leads to "output" (as it is termed in the national accounts), creating jobs, generating income for workers and owners of capital, and resulting in the goods and services found in our stores. Output is a central concept in economics. It is essentially used by economists in volume terms (i.e. not at current prices).
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Defining final uses of GDP
Changes in the final uses of GDP, or demand to use the economists' term, determine the growth of real GDP in the short term. This chapter gives the definition of the components of this demand.
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The household account
A household is a group of people collectively taking responsibility to feed and house themselves. A household can consist of a single person or of two or more people living under the same roof, these people generally being linked by family ties. However, there are also "institutional households" consisting of, for example, members of the armed forces living in a barracks or on board a ship, people detained in prison, or nuns living in a convent. National accounts make no distinction between these different categories of "household", and they are all lumped together in what is known as the "household sector", carrying the code S14. In practice, however, the bulk of the household sector consists of families.
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OECD economists are particularly interested in the institutional framework in which enterprises (firms) operate, in order to identify how to improve firms' performance and generate an increase in employment, among other benefits. In recent OECD reports on France, for example, the authors have suggested a certain number of structural reforms intended to improve the performance of French firms. For example:
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The financial and balance sheet accounts
Household final consumption expenditure accounts for 60% of GDP, so that a change of one or two percentage points in this aggregate can decide whether the economy does well or badly. The OECD economists therefore keep a close eye on the factors that influence household consumption. The most important of these is their disposable income during the period in question, but it is not the only one. Another variable influencing consumption is the change in household wealth.
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The general government account
OECD Economic Surveys on individual member countries always contain in-depth analysis of fiscal data, and they sometimes criticise government fiscal policy. Here are some extracts from the July 2003 report on France:
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The input-output table and integrated economic accounts
According to Edmond Malinvaud, one of the most distinguished contemporary French economists, the national accounts are "the presentation, in a rigorous accounting framework, of all the quantitative information relating to the nation's economic activity".* Here, the importance of the words "rigorous accounting framework" must be stressed. In fact, any macroeconomist carries in his head a simplified model of the economy in which everything made by someone is used by someone else, anything exported by someone is imported by someone else, anything saved by someone is invested by someone else, and so on.
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The national accounts machinery
Previous chapters concentrated on the definitions of the variables in the national accounts. This chapter is quite different; its aim is to explain how national accounts are compiled in practice and to describe the main consequences of this process for the user. We will start by discussing the quarterly accounts; then we will examine the relationship between quarterly national accounts and annual national accounts. Finally, we will look at ordinary revisions and comprehensive revisions in the national accounts. The example used will be France, but the lessons to be learned apply also to other countries.
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The national income and product accounts of the united states (NIPA)
Following several quarters of falling real gross domestic product (GDP) in 2000 and 2001, the US economy showed considerable strength. For example, from the fourth quarter of 2001 through the fourth quarter of 2005, growth in the US economy as measured by real GDP averaged 3.2% per quarter (at an annual rate).
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China's national accounts
With more than 1.25 billion inhabitants, China's population dwarfs that of all other countries except India. According to the World Bank estimates shown in Figure 1 below, China is also an economic giant, with a GDP in 2004 second only to that of the United States. China's GDP is shown as more than one and a half times bigger than that of the next largest country – Japan – and its GDP is larger than those of Germany, the United Kingdom and France combined. Question: how reliable are the numbers for China in Figure 1?
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India's national accounts
With a population of more than 1 billion, India is the second-largest country in the world, and because of a higher growth rate, its population is expected to surpass that of China in the near future. However, as Figure 1 in Chapter 13 shows, despite a comparable population, India's GDP is less than half that of China. The latest World Bank estimates rank India's GDP (based on Purchasing Power Parities, or PPP) in fourth position – between that of Japan and Germany.
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International systems of national accounts
There are three recent studies of the history of national accounts. The preface to the 1993 System of National Accounts ("Perspectives on the 1993 SNA: Looking Back and Looking Ahead") describes the development of the 1953, 1968 and 1993 versions of the SNA. André Vanoli, the French expert in national accounts, gives what must surely be the definitive history of national accounts in A History of National Accounts (IOS press, 2005, ISBN: 1-59603-469- 3). Angus Maddison, in the introduction of The World Economy: Historical Statistics (OECD, 2003), describes the very earliest attempts to measure national income. Maddison is the main source for the next section.
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All of us have seen a political poster past its time: peeling off a wall in tatters, or peeking out from underneath another poster of the next big thing. Posters are, by their very nature, a throwaway form of art and communication. But, when it comes to posters produced by and for India's women, one group wants to ensure these messages are not forgotten.Go to page >
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When Mahatma Gandhi envisioned a truly independent and democratic India, he envisioned gram swaraj-village self-rule. For Gandhi, true village autonomy meant that all adults--women and men--work together to ensure their village's self-reliance in meeting basic needs.Go to page >
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My interpreter, Scheherazade Matallah, and I climb the steps to Naima Zitan's apartment, one room of which doubles as an office for Théâtre Aquarium. Three senior members of the organization lean on the table and passionately describe their history and dreams in a cacophony of French and Arabic...Go to page >
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Un-Fair Campaign promises painful but necessary growth
JIM SODERBERG: It is perhaps premature to characterize the dramatic response to Duluth's Un-Fair Campaign as growing pains. But there is little doubt that the campaign has tapped the strong and often ambivalent feelings that we associate with transforming change.By: Jim Soderberg, for the Budgeteer
In my early teens, I grew to more than 6 feet in just a few short months. The experience was disorienting and uncomfortable. Doorways were lower, rooms smaller. My feet were never where they were supposed to be. And my bones ached. "Growing pains," the doctor called them.
It's an apt expression for this experience of discomfort that accompanies growth. We use it when talking about all kinds of life experiences that stretch and transform us, both as individuals and as groups. With these two words we acknowledge that this process isn't easy but also that it is part of what it means to be alive.
It is perhaps premature to characterize the dramatic response to Duluth's Un-Fair Campaign as growing pains. But there is little doubt that the campaign has tapped the strong and often ambivalent feelings that we associate with transforming change. The Un-Fair Campaign has the ambitious goal of prodding us, as individuals and as a community, to grow. It challenges us to look at the attitudes, systems and behaviors that exile some of our neighbors to feel like aliens among us and that shut us off from the richness of their experience and wisdom.
More critically, the Un-Fair Campaign demands that we accept the moral imperative posed by racism. Racism diminishes all of us. But for many, as our newspapers report daily, it is literally a matter of life and death. Racism kills, sometimes quickly, more often by degrees. Essential resources of employment, food, housing, and health care are disproportionately not accessible to people of color. The judicial, medical and educational systems routinely fail their needs. We cannot overcome racism without confronting these, the harsh realities of its consequences.
In looking back at the dramatic growth of my teens, I haven't forgotten the pain and discomfort. But mostly I remember the excitement of those years. Many of these experiences were difficult. Some were painful. But I never doubted that I was alive nor that my world was expanding and growing richer.
For me, the Un-Fair Campaign carries a similar promise. It is an acknowledgement that things are not as they should be and that they must change. The process will not be easy. It will call us to confront aspects of our selves and our community that we would rather ignore. And it will challenge us to look at, and live in, our community in a new way.
But the process also promises to be exciting and enriching for those who commit to it. And it is an investment we must make. While the rewards are great, the consequences of not doing so — to ourselves, our neighbors, and our children — are too immense to ignore.
Jim Soderberg is the executive director of CHUM, an agency with provides emergency food, shelter, advocacy, and outreach to over 7,000 hungry, homeless and low-income people each year.
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Precious metals have enjoyed multi-year bullish trends, which made last week's shakeout unnerving for some. MoneyShow's Tom Aspray examines the charts and offers advice on your next moves.
The tone in the precious metal markets has changed in the past week as increasing volume suggests the sellers may now be taking charge. The first sharp drop came on November 28 when over 480,000 contracts changed hands as gold lost 2%. This reversed some of the positive momentum from the previous Friday when the February gold futures closed at their highest level since mid-October.
Another wave of selling hit the futures early Tuesday morning when global trading was extremely thin. The futures lost $10 in a minute and over 3,000 contracts traded at 12:47 AM ET as the February futures contract cracked the $1,700 level.
This occurred when even the US and European traders were mostly absent. Another wave of selling hit the market as the US market opened Tuesday with the February contract dropping 1.5% to close at $1,695.80.
Some are assuming that Tuesday's drop was tied to a large bearish option trade last week and those buyers picked a particularly thin period of trading to move the markets in their favor. Others think that the selling was tied to fears over the fiscal cliff as traders took profits now to avoid what may be higher taxes on their profits next year.
Whatever the reasons, the high-volume selling needs to be respected as it increases the chances that gold and silver will test, if not break, below their November lows. A technical look at gold, silver, and the silver mining stocks outlines the two most likely paths for the metals this month.
Chart Analysis: The close Tuesday in the gold futures was below the last two swing lows at $1,707 basis the February contract. This now represents the first level of resistance, and it has been tested early Wednesday.
The Spyder Gold Trust (SPY) closed at $169.61 on November 23, which was just above the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement resistance from the October highs. Two days later GLD gapped below its 20-day EMA and it gapped lower again on Tuesday.
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iPhone delay could spell gloom for Apple, analyst says
Apple's tried and true habit of releasing one iPhone a year is not lost on consumers, who typically buy the least number of the devices in the quarter just before the new model goes on sale.
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