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S.265 - Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act of 1993103rd Congress (1993-1994)
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That Republicans ŌĆö specifically the tea party caucus ŌĆö are to blame.
The nationŌĆÖs editorial boards spent Tuesday much the way tourists on the Mall did, expressing their outrage over the government shutdown. The overwhelming number of editorial boards came to the same conclusion: That Republicans ŌĆö specifically the tea party caucus ŌĆö are to blame. Even those editorial boards that donŌĆÖt like the Affordable Care Act think shutting down the government is a bridge too far.
HereŌĆÖs a sampling of the editorials from around the country:
Kansas City Star: ŌĆ£The government of the people of the United States is partially shut down because a faction of the Republican Party insists on tying further spending to the crippling of President Barack ObamaŌĆÖs health care law.ŌĆØ
The Oregonian: ŌĆ£Not everyone with reservations about the law believes itŌĆÖs necessary to shut down national parks to express them. ThatŌĆÖs not to say the Affordable Care Act, in which Oregon is heavily invested, is wonderful legislation. ItŌĆÖs not. ItŌĆÖs a complex piece of work approved in highly partisan fashion[.] ŌĆ" [T]his weekŌĆÖs events wonŌĆÖt help Republicans make the case that they offer a credible, serious alternative to the party that created [the ACA].ŌĆØ
Seattle Times: ŌĆ£WashingtonŌĆÖs get-along, go-along Republican members of Congress must start showing some independence. A good place to begin is by voting ŌĆ£noŌĆØ on the wacky ideological diversions of their fringe colleagues.ŌĆØ
Los Angeles Times: ŌĆ£Unlike the GOPŌĆÖs previous flirtations with a government shutdown, this fight isnŌĆÖt being waged in the name of lower deficits and debt. ItŌĆÖs just a desperate attempt to score political points against the Affordable Care Act before it goes fully into effect and the benefits become clearer.ŌĆØ
San Francisco Chronicle: ŌĆ£The partyŌĆÖs leadership looks powerless in controlling these insurgents, many from congressional districts where boundaries were redrawn to make a moderate outlook untenable. Compromise and balance are being bred out of lawmaking by a haywire system.ŌĆØ
Arizona Republic: ŌĆ£[W]e need the Republican Party to rein in the madness. Sen. John McCain tried. He called out the firebrands on the futility of turning a routine funding bill into a proxy for continuing opposition to Obamacare. But the voice of reason failed. Normally level-headed Speaker John Boehner abdicated his role as resident House parent and joined the binge-happy tea drinkers.ŌĆØ
Albuquerque Journal: ŌĆ£America closed much of its government because its leaders couldnŌĆÖt even agree on directions to the strip mall that houses the loan office, much less terms of the six-week loan. ŌĆ" Instead of fulfilling No. 1 on their job descriptions and passing a federal budget, then fixing the ACA, members of Congress decided to play politics, no surprise, and co-mingled the funding of general operations with a political hot potato ŌĆō because you canŌĆÖt see a furloughed employeeŌĆÖs unpaid bills from their offices in D.C.ŌĆØ
The Salt Lake Tribune: ŌĆ£All the shutdown threats have ever stood to accomplish has been to boost the tea party bona fides of such obstructionists as UtahŌĆÖs Sen. Mike Lee and TexasŌĆÖ Sen. Ted Cruz. ŌĆ" [T]he idea that Obamacare is such a threat that it would be worth a government shutdown or, much worse, a refusal to raise the nationŌĆÖs debt ceiling later this month, borders on the insane.ŌĆØ
The Denver Post: ŌĆ£This is a battle Republicans cannot win. President Obama and Senate Democrats have no incentive to offer concessions so long as the public doesnŌĆÖt hold them responsible for any resulting hardship. Republicans are most likely to be blamed, and then, when the consequences get bad enough, theyŌĆÖll have little choice but to capitulate.ŌĆØ
Minneapolis Star-Tribune: ŌĆ£GOP representatives one after the other repeated the same two arguments: that their partyŌĆÖs stop-Obamacare-at-any-cost budget strategy reflects the ŌĆświll of the people,ŌĆÖ and that Democrats and President Obama simply arenŌĆÖt willing to compromise. The numbers tell a different, more reality-based story, which is why the natural tendency to blame both sides for the budget debacle should be checked as the shutdown and its potentially harmful economic consequences play out. ŌĆ" It would be one thing if House Republicans were putting only their political futures at risk. But this political equivalent to civil war will likely cause civilian casualties.ŌĆØ
Des Moines Register: ŌĆ£If Senate Democrats were to cave to this threat, federal budgets in the future would be held hostage to any pet project of either party. If thatŌĆÖs the way the game is to be played, congressional Democrats could pass budget resolutions with some demands of their own: tighter controls on gun and ammo sales; elimination of limits on a womanŌĆÖs right to choose abortion; legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states; hefty tax increases on corporations; controls on greenhouse gas emissions; etc. What the American people have seen play out in Washington this week is a pathetic lack of leadership and statesmanship.ŌĆØ
Miami Herald: ŌĆ£The ACA is not perfect, as President Obama himself has acknowledged. But whatŌĆÖs the alternative? Republicans never made a sincere effort to come up with their own version. ThatŌĆÖs one big reason ACA is now the law of the land. ŌĆ" The appropriate way to stop a law is to not pass it in the first place, or to repeal it. Using the budget process is not the way government should work ŌĆö and not the way government has worked in the past.ŌĆØ
Lexington Herald-Leader: ŌĆ£Republicans, who could have celebrated a win on spending cuts, must instead worry about being blamed for shutting down national parks, cutting off paychecks to 800,000-plus workers, disrupting services to veterans and halting coal mine inspections and permitting.ŌĆØ (Worth the click: The Herald-Leader, which doesnŌĆÖt have great relations with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, actually paints McConnell in a favorable light: ŌĆ£KentuckyŌĆÖs Republican senators are offering ways to keep the government funded. Even facing a Tea Party primary challenger, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell voted to end Sen. Ted CruzŌĆÖs anti-Obamacare filibuster.ŌĆØ)
Charleston Gazette: ŌĆ£Republicans in Congress are a minority, so they cannot pass laws. But their control of the House lets them block needed legislation ŌĆö thus they have power to extort. ŌĆ" What a disgusting mess. Why, for heavenŌĆÖs sake, are Republicans so determined to take health insurance away from 30 million less-privileged Americans? No wonder many Americans feel contempt for politics and donŌĆÖt even bother to vote.ŌĆØ
Newark Star-Ledger: ŌĆ£[I]t is time for grown-up Republicans to step up and assert themselves. They have to talk the tea party faction off the ledge and explain that this fight is hopeless, that President Obama is not going to sabotage his own health care reform, the landmark achievement of his first term. ŌĆ" ["Extremists in the House"] are hostage takers. They are threatening to damage the country unless Democrats bend to their will on a policy debate they lost, fair and square. This time it is the Affordable Care Act. Next time it could be another tax cut for the rich, or an expansion of offshore oil drilling.ŌĆØ
Hartford Courant: ŌĆ£House Republicans ŌĆ" arenŌĆÖt fooling anyone. They who proclaim strict fealty to the Constitution are attempting to sabotage it, to thwart the process, to change a law by holding the government hostage.ŌĆØ
Portland Press Herald: ŌĆ£[T]he people who are feeling the impact of congressional RepublicansŌĆÖ unwillingness to compromise are people who work for the federal government or benefit from government programs. They didnŌĆÖt contribute to the current impasse, but theyŌĆÖll bear the brunt of it. And thatŌĆÖs not right.ŌĆØ
House Speaker John BoehnerŌĆÖs leadership, and his hold on the Republican Conference, took a beating.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: ŌĆ£The president is right, and about three dozen tea party Republicans who are calling the shots now in Congress are dead wrong. Their leader, House Speaker John Boehner, is either unwilling or unable to stop them. He needs to try.ŌĆØ
Raleigh News & Observer: ŌĆ£This is a sorry commentary indeed on the ineffectiveness of Speaker John Boehner. ItŌĆÖs another head-scratching moment. ŌĆ" [N]ow the question is, why canŌĆÖt Speaker Boehner, who has the necessary votes to pass a bill to keep the government going without attachments designed to wreck the Affordable Care Act, get that done? The answer is a maddening conundrum: Boehner fears alienating the tea partyers, who though a long way from having a majority can make mischief.ŌĆØ
Concord Monitor: ŌĆ£This is BoehnerŌĆÖs government shutdown. The lachrymose speaker who cries when he sees a little kid recite the Pledge of Allegiance is shedding no tears for the kids who wonŌĆÖt get fed because their Head Start program was closed. The House controls the budget, and the speaker controls the agenda. ŌĆ" House Republicans have turned out the lights because they donŌĆÖt like the new couch, but the public will only put up with the dark so long.ŌĆØ
Honolulu Star-Advertiser: ŌĆ£The standoff on Capitol Hill culminating in the current federal government shutdown represents the worst possible alternative lawmakers could have selected. It was a cynical political choice made all the more shameful by the fact that real people could suffer from it, especially if it drags on for any length of time. ŌĆ" [C]learly [Boehner] caved to those in his caucus who favor this kind of scorched-earth tactic, ultimately an unproductive exercise other than for the purpose of scoring political points in conservative Republican House districts.ŌĆØ
A few papers placed blame on both sides ŌĆö to an extent.
The Tennessean: ŌĆ£ŌĆśCLOSEDŌĆÖ is never a sign that you want to see ŌĆö especially when itŌĆÖs unnecessary and counterproductive. ŌĆ" At this point, it almost doesnŌĆÖt matter whom you blame for the shutdown ŌĆö the president, congressional Democrats, mainstream Republicans, the tea party or all of the above ŌĆö but it is very hard to fathom the perverseness of those who are happy to prove their point on the backs of millions of Americans.ŌĆØ
Richmond Times-Dispatch: ŌĆ£The shutdown of the federal government that began early Tuesday morning represents a massive failure on all sides of the debate in Washington. ŌĆ" The continuing resolution would have passed, though, if House Speaker John Boehner had been able to convince conservative upstarts to accept the proposal put forward by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of VirginiaŌĆÖs 7th District. That would have pressed the Senate on Obamacare without forcing a shutdown. They refused. ŌĆ" [A] speaker of greater stature ŌĆö Sam Rayburn, for instance ŌĆö would have delivered just such a lesson in a manner those on the receiving end would not soon have forgotten.ŌĆØ
Chicago Tribune: ŌĆ£Past experience, though, suggests that the White House and Congress are playing with fire. Political brinkmanship in Washington creates economic uncertainty. ŌĆ" We can find no heroes in this government shutdown. We can find victims, though: the American citizens whose jobs and standard of living have been put in jeopardy.ŌĆØ
Pathetic whining by the Obama press apparatus.
Quoting grandmab125:
the Obama press apparatus.
If the vast majority of newspapers are not attempting to give their honest views, but are instead in the pay of one man, how exactly are you suggesting this state of affairs came to pass?
Just from the 3 that I know, Seatle Times, SF Chron, and LA Times,
None of them would normally say anything bad about Obama. They go after the Republicans. It's just the slant of the papers. No big deal as we know they are that way.
Now, with some effort, one could find just as many sightings for blaming Obama.
All those stating that the GOP caused this, have you missed Obama saying that the only thing that will fix this is HIS way? SERIOUSLY? They're supposed to meet in the middle somewhere, but nope. It's not going to happen. Too bad they can't stop their pays during this.
To start with our msm, print, tv and radio is very liberal. They all fell in love with Obama when he ran for president. Hell, MSNBC was litterally an extension of his campaign office.
They never asked him tough questions, nor did they vet him. The only question about his past that would have provided at least a glimpse into his real way of thinking was brushed off. One tv 'personality'....not really a reporter...asked him about his relationship to Bill Ayres (co-founder of the Weather Underground terrorist group). This man hosted, in his home, one of the first fund raisers for Obama, when he ran for the IL Senate. They are neighbors in Chicago and friends. Obama's answer was "Oh, he's just a guy in the neighborhood.". This interviewer never pushed him for more info, and just dropped the subject.
Up until recently, they never reported negative things about Obama. They fawned over him. It makes them look like the fools they've been when they do actually report on important things that make Obama look badly. The media doesn't like to be made to look like incompetent idiots and liars.
It always takes months after a Fox report for the msm to report the same negative item about Obama....if they even bother.
There was even a study published by UCLA (I think it was) about a year ago, where they came to the conclusion that except for Fox and most talk radio,the msm is very liberal.
Have you ever watched an interview any msm station does with Obama? The questions have always been fluff, never anything of substance. And the one CBS reporter who went after him for his complicity in the Benghazi coverup and Hilary Clinton's part in the tragedy, ended up with her work and home computers getting hacked into (probably by the NSA). You know, kind of a warning to reporters not to delve too deeply into any of the scandals during this past year.
In fact, sometime in this past year or two, Obama tried to get the Fox News DC reporter excluded from Carney's daily press meetings. Fortunately, for Fox and us, many other msm reporters stood up for Fox, and they backed down. The thought was, 'if they can do that to Fox, they can do that to any of the rest of us'.
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Quoting grandmab125:
the Obama press apparatus.
If the vast majority of newspapers are not attempting to give their honest views, but are instead in the pay of one man, how exactly are you suggesting this state of affairs came to pass?
Quoting grandmab125:Quoting Clairwil:
Quoting grandmab125:
the Obama press apparatus.
If the vast majority of newspapers are not attempting to give their honest views, but are instead in the pay of one man, how exactly are you suggesting this state of affairs came to pass?
our msm, print, tv and radio is very liberal.
There was even a study published by UCLA (I think it was) about a year ago, where they came to the conclusion that except for Fox and most talk radio,the msm is very liberal.
Exactly. Which explains my back-up voting strategy.
If ever there is an item on the ballot that I haven't studied up on, I vote the opposite of the LA Times. Works every time. :)
Quoting a bunch of left-leaning newspapers is just quoting a bunch of left-leaning newspapers. Doesn't mean squat.
They CONVENIENTLY left out comments from the conservative ones.
Quoting erika9009:
Just from the 3 that I know, Seatle Times, SF Chron, and LA Times,
None of them would normally say anything bad about Obama. They go after the Republicans. It's just the slant of the papers. No big deal as we know they are that way.
Now, with some effort, one could find just as many sightings for blaming Obama.
Ha ha! There are exactly 43 Tea Party caucus members in the House.
Out of 435. That is a whopping 10%. Can never get a majority.
Excellent math job, as always.
It must be that other people agree that laws should apply equally to all people, and that jobs and healthcare are better than healthcare with no jobs.
One liberal ass't professor at a very liberal college disagrees with the UCLA report, and??? Funny, but he's the only one who has criticized the UCLA study...
Liberal media bias is beyond doubt - Baltimore Sun
Run for cover: it's the most 'severe' liberal media bias in 25 years ...
Liberal Bias Is Killing Traditional Media ŌĆō Can Jeff Bezos Save It ...
Quoting Clairwil:
Quoting grandmab125:
Quoting Clairwil:
Quoting grandmab125:
the Obama press apparatus.
If the vast majority of newspapers are not attempting to give their honest views, but are instead in the pay of one man, how exactly are you suggesting this state of affairs came to pass?
our msm, print, tv and radio is very liberal.
There was even a study published by UCLA (I think it was) about a year ago, where they came to the conclusion that except for Fox and most talk radio,the msm is very liberal.
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Boom and bust is a feature of capitalism.
We have had the Dutch tulip mania, the Mississippi bubble, the South Sea speculation, the Railway booms, property booms, share booms and new economy booms. All these booms and others caused great disturbance and almost all ended badly.
We tend to assume booms and busts are undesirable, worthy of 'reforms' that dampen booms and therefore decrease the busts.
Henry is coming to the view that the 'reform' process is strangling the golden goose that is capitalism.
The benefits of booms are many and varied.
Great things get achieved, whose benefits sit beside the costs of idiotic projects started.
Melbourne became a great city in the property boom of the 1880s. The Railway booms opened new territories and greatly increased the efficiency of existing industries.
People of an innovative mindset get their best chance in a boom, even though some innovative villains get away with other people's money.
Some poor people of talent, or merely lucky, rise during booms, just as some foolish, or merely unlucky, wealthy people miss out.
The busts weed out the seriously incompetent, some of the crooks and unlucky people generally.
The busts break up the entrenched oligopolies, as Schumpeter's gale of creative destruction breaks over the previous boomtown.
Cautious, sensible people usually survive the downturn and find serious bargains when the bust has run its course.
The calculus is far from certain, but history shows that boom and bust is an inherent part of capitalism. Inherent features of any system tend to have some beneficial role.
It is clear that there are many benefits of boom and bust to offset the costs. More work is needed to document and if possible to quantify the costs and benefits. Henry has a strong intuition that the benefits outweigh the costs, with one important caveat.
The chief cost of the busts may be increasingly intrusive and restrictive regulation of business. This may eventually outweigh the net benefits, if indeed it has not already done so.
'Let the buyer beware' has long been forgotten as a catch cry of capitalism. Globalised and harmonised accounting standards failed to stop Lehman Brothers from rorting this intrusive and clumsy set of standards. Friends say that the revamped Sarbanes-Oxley Act is an absolute nightmare.
Existing regulations failed to stop the boom of the noughties.
As the salarymen and women of global governance strive to 'reform' the rules of capitalism, this stark fact should not be forgotten.
The demise of Lehman Brothers, lamented as a mistake due to the trouble it caused, may have been a blessing in disguise. At least it disposed of the myth that bad banks would always be bailed out.
One hopes the re-regulators will put in place a system that does not let such enterprises become too big to fail, and has real costs for crooked, incompetent or merely unlucky managers.
'WHEN a 2200-page legal report on the collapse of Lehman Brothers landed with a thud in New York last week, exposing the grand deception the firm used for years to mask its perilous financial situation, many were left wondering how so many of its top executives could have been so bloody stupid. What made them think they were so special that the normal rules of the market, of the law and of common sense did not apply to them?'
Read on here.
Posted today on The Australian's website.
The US economy added 252,000 jobs in December, confirming 2014 as the best year for job creation since 1999. The good news for the US economy's competitiveness is that growth in wages and US government bond yields remained subdued.
The strong job growth reinforces other evidence that the US is outperforming other large hi-income economies. In particular, the Eurozone, is reentering deflation for the first time in more than five years, and the Japanese economy is still struggling.
While investors are betting that the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates this (Northern) summer, expectations are growing for the European Central Bank to embark on a full-blown programme of bond-buying to stimulate its economy.
The FT reports that the US Fed officials 'are in broad agreement that US interest rates are unlikely to rise until at least April, according to minutes from their policy meeting in December.
'Most people on the 10-strong Federal Open Market Committee agreed with Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen that the move to drop the central banks forecast about keeping interest rates low for a considerable time should be seen as a signal that it will not raise rates at its January or March meetings. Read on here.
Most interest rate experts say US cash rates are unlikely to begin to rise until mid 2015. But this is contested by some old-fashioned types who remain committed to pre-GFC economics. The old-fashioned types expected excess money to generate goods and services inflation. While the labor and goods markets remained depressed it was possible to rationalise lack of response of goods and services inflation. Smart old-fashioned types - eg Rupert Murdoch - could also rationalise excess money raising asset inflation.
The emerging global issue is deflation of goods and service markets, and the recovery in the US economy is hardly strong enough to drag the global economy into the full-employment zone. Unless and until this happens, global excess money, generated in Japan and the Eurozone, even if no longer by the US Fed, is likely to continue to flood into asset markets. When the Fed begins to raise interest rates global asset inflation may be checked, but while excess money keeps coming, this may be only a temporary check.
The economic textbook are already out-of-date, and 2015 may see wider recognition of this vital point.
Henry's first attempt to write the next generation of text book is available here.
The year has started with a barbaric act of terrorism by Islamists who object to people who are free to make fun of religious ideology. As we write, Australian law enforcement agencies are supposedly keeping tabs on likely would-be perpetrators of another act of terror. Endless future diligent detective work seems likely to be required to minimise these atrocities, but there is no obvious alternative.
'Why not simply decline to accept any immigrants from the Middle East?' asked a visitor during the holiday break. No short run relief from such a policy, and it may make things worse as existing people with imagined reasons to attack Australia's multicultural civilisation would presumably be given a fresh reason to feel aggrieved.
If such a draconian approach is not acceptable, surely we need a more rigorous filter for people from places with a generally hostile view of western values. Evaluation of applications for permanent residence or citizenship could be far more thorough, with interviews by pairs of people trained to detect latent hostility to our prevailing culture.
When interviewing job applicants, I have often found revealing the answer to a question like 'Why are you interested in working for XYZ corporation'. People with real expertise should be able to sort out likely trouble makers, especially if records of the interviews are kept and reasons for accepting people who later become terrorists are scrutinised carefully.
A cheaper solution would to be only to accept people from cultures known to be sympathetic to Australia's values, though one hopes even such people should be scrutinised more closely than current practice suggests is the norm.
Readers inclined to respond are invited to contact Henry here.
Economic prospects for 2015.
Martin Wolf of the FT presents the best overview of likely global economic developments this year Henry has read. As Henry has often advised Australian astrologers, Wolf presents a base case but also major risks. He says global growth in 2015 is 'extremely likely' to be not too far short of 4 %. Developing countries may grow faster (as they catch up to current high income economies) and developed nations slower than the average, perhaps at 2 % rate.
Risks to this benign scenario are various: financial meltdown in China; messy Eurozone dismemberment; dollar strength creating developed nation economic crisis; geopolitical shock; and I would add global equity crash as US interest rates rise.
The Australian economy would normally be part of the high income group, but with our reliance on China's growth a crisis there would intensify the pain already being felt by plunging commodity prices. While our budget problems are (or should be) well known the current state of political hostility and Senate gridlock is unusual. As Henry has said, only a widened GST at a higher rate will fix the budget, and we must all hope this is achieved by some political alchemy currently hard to imagine.
In the short run, the greatest impediment to 'high income' growth is our cost disequilibrium. This will be remediated if the Australian dollar keeps sinking and yet wage and price inflation stays low. Remediation would be faster if there were a productivity boost, but political gridlock is likely to be a blocker here too.
Readers are advised to save money, be unaggressive about remuneration claims and make it clear to government that they want the budget problem to be fixed and economic reform to encourage innovation and boost productivity. Passing these views to local members is likely to be effective, especially now when every one from John Howard down are expressing views on how to do better.
Martin Wolf wisely reminds us that economic forecasts exist to make astrology (or, we must add, alchemy) respectable. Read on here.
Finally we saw some real form from the Indian cricket team under its young new captain Virat Kohli. That said, the number of dropped catches during the Indian innings was unusual and Ravi Ashwin's brilliant dismissal of Dave Warner was another sign of growing Indian confidence. Henry will be watching the last day of the fourth test today and expects it to be a real contest.
Why the futball world cup begins at 10 pm on Friday is beyond Henry's ability to understand or explain. Fine for unemployed couch potatoes, but what about people with jobs that require alertness by 8 AM Saturday? Henry nevertheless sat up last evening and was entranced by the ebbs and flows of a fascinating game in which the Aussies overcame a bad start to beat Kuwait 4-1.
Soon the tennis will be front and centre. A win for little Lleyton Hewitt and/or Slammin' Sam Stouser would bring great joy to the Thornton household, but must be regarded as less likely than a serious geopolitical accident. Image of the week - Courtesy The Oz
The UK stock market is in its 70th month of a bull market, which began in March 2009. There are only two other occasions in history when the market has risen for longer. One is the period leading up to the great crash in 1929 and the other before the bursting of the dotcom bubble in the early 2000s.
The graph puts current performance into perspective.
The article from which this graph is extracted is called 'Ten warning signs of a market crash in 2015'.
Read on here, and ponder.
We would welcome comments, prognostications or even wild guesses, if accompanied by some minimal logical support.
Contact Henry here.
Every offspring of Henry's friends has had trouble finding a regular job in an area trained for at one of Australia's finest universities. The luckiest have found a spot thanks to the intervention of family friends. The most innovative have become unpaid 'interns', and in some cases this leads to paid employment. The restless will find work in a remote outback town. The rest either take a job stacking shelves at a supermarket or return to university to try another profession. Teaching is currently one of the most popular options in the leafy Eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
We guessed this was a global problem, because if Australia - a 'miracle economy' - is having this trouble, what about less miraculous places? This week's Economist has filled in the story in a leader called: 'The on-demand economy' or 'Workers on tap', with accompanying graphic.
To be sure, the venerable mag's approach is from the view of the entrepreneur, rather that the struggling young would-be worker, but there is an implied message here. This was the theme of a movie, 'Nightcrawler', Henry watched with young Bert during the holiday season. The chief character in this movie was a bloke who had turned to crime to create work for himself, dangerous and providing only a meagre income. He happened upon a newsworthy event and when the newshounds arrived the lightbulb went off. He became a newshound, selling stories to any TV station that would pay for them.
Being a man of great entrepreneurial drive, he figures out how to do the newshound job better than any of the regulars. Partly this involves making the news, his first instance being to move a corpse to create a more dramatic image. Where this leads I shall not divulge, but the trailer, linked here, offers hints.
As the Economist says: 'Some of the forces behind the on-demand economy have been around for decades. Ever since the 1970s the economy that Henry Ford helped create, with big firms and big trade unions, has withered. Manufacturing jobs have been automated out of existence or outsourced abroad, while big companies have abandoned lifetime employment. Some 53m American workers already work as freelances.
'But two powerful forces are speeding this up and pushing it into ever more parts of the economy. The first is technology. Cheap computing power means a lone thespian with an Apple Mac can create videos that rival those of Hollywood studios. Complex tasks, such as programming a computer or writing a legal brief, can now be divided into their component partsand subcontracted to specialists around the world. The on-demand economy allows society to tap into its under-used resources: thus Uber gets people to rent their own cars, and InnoCentive lets them rent their spare brain capacity'.
And in conclusion: 'But even if governments adjust their policies to a more individualistic age, the on-demand economy clearly imposes more risk on individuals. People will have to master multiple skills if they are to survive in such a worldand keep those skills up to date. Professional sorts in big service firms will have to take more responsibility for educating themselves. People will also have to learn how to sell themselves, through personal networking and social media or, if they are really ambitious, turning themselves into brands. In a more fluid world, everybody will need to learn how to manage You Inc'.
More information is available here. If your offspring cannot find a decent job, show him this blog or tell her there is more than one way to create a future. If teaching fails, there is always setting up a baby-sitting business, or walking dogs for a living.
New years bring releases of cabinet papers and this allows former policy warriors relive their glory days. The only real contemporary relevance is the lessons for the immediate future. Geoff Kitney provided such an analysis in the weekend AFR and concluded that the economic mistakes of the Hawke-Keating government make 'ominous reading' for Tony Abbott.
Henry's memory goes back to the 'Banana Republic' event of 1986. This was sparked by sharply rising external debt. After a serious s**tfight, Keating agreed that stern policy action recommendeded by the RBA's economists was required. In the event, the Treasurer persuaded the cabinet to cut government spending to the extent that a serious budget deficit was turned into a surplus. Prime minister Hawke persuaded the ACTU to cop a cut in real wages, accepting less than full compensation for the effects of the plunging dollar. The falling dollar was possible only because of the earlier deregulation of the market for foreign exchange, the Hawke-Keating government's greatest policy move.
The advice of the Research Department (never 'official' RBA advice) was ultimately accepted by the government after a lot of Keating's global best practice invective focussed on the RBA's Chief Economist. Mr Keating's abuse was dished out at a meeting that included the entire senior Treasury team whose members with one honourable exception kept their head down while the verbal bullets were flying. Why Treasury was not leading that debate is a mystery. Either Treasury read the economy differently, or they were far better careerists. But in the crucial meeting alluded to Treasury officials (with that one honourable exception) sat quietly. 'Cigar store indians' Mark Twain would have said.
The next event of significance was the global share price crash of October 1987. Again there was frenzied debate, with Treasury (and several elderly advisors in the RBA's executive committee) arguing that the crash would create a global recession. Once again the advice from the RBA's chief economist was that there would be no global recession and the risk of overheating was a larger risk than the deep freeze predicted by most journalists and policy advisors. The RBA's board seemed to accept this advice and the related advice that monetary policy should be tightened. But while this advice was repeated at each meeting of the board, and seemingly accepted, interest rates fell rather than rose.
Geoff Kitney focusses on the major political event of the 1980s, the struggles for the top job between Messrs Hawke and Keating. 'Through 1989, Keating, the Treasury, and the Reserve Bank collectively misjudged the policy response of the boom, applying the monetary brakes too late and keeping interest rates too high for too long'.
By then, I had stood down as the RBA's Chief Economist and shortly after that accepted a job in the private sector. I will admit to have been seriously disillusioned about the dangers of giving fearless advice that the textbooks (and common sense) recommends for public officials. This disillusion was strengthed as those who kept silent during the big debate in 1987, and who were responsible for 'the recession we had to have', were promoted. To my mind, this is a major cause of the politisisation of the Australian public service that thoughtful people regret.
That is the real message of 'the recession we had to have', one that there is little evidence that the current government understands.
Greetings and best wishes for 2015, gentle readers. It is hot and very windy on the Mornington Peninsular and in a large swatch of South-Eastern Australia. Perfect bushfire weather, and doubtless there will be nutters abroad seeking to generate some excitement. Anyhow, all we can do is keep the grass around the rural hideaway cut and hope for the best.
Henry's favourite journalistic stirrer, Grace Collier has returned to the Oz after what seems to be a long absence.
Is this another economy measure from Rupert's minions or has Ms Collier been sprogging, travelling overseas or just taking a rest? 'Grace', if I may use such an intimate salutation, please keep up the good work, and if the Oz is reluctant to use your talents, HenryThornton.com stands ready to provide an internship.
Anyway, Ms Grace is onto something with her article today. 'Look after your friends, or at least stop slapping them in the face. Everyone needs friends. The Labor Party is great at looking after its friends; as a result, it has many. The Coalition is hopeless at looking after its friends; as a result, it has hardly any, a fact it constantly bemoans'.
Hopefully, one day the penny will drop. The Coalition should try to keep faith with its base; an obvious rule: never give the enemy of your supporters a job. Two key appointments (to protect the identities of the appointees, they shall be known only as Natasha X and Greg X) constituted unforgivable insults.
Those who know the real names of "Natasha X" and "Greg X" are invited to contact Henry here. 'Unforgivable insults' need to be recorded, but the general point is more relevant. 'Look after your friends, or at least stop slapping them in the face'.
Of the other suggestions for Tony Abbott and co, Henry most liked the following:* 'Reverse the high-income earner debt levy and cut income taxes.'* 'Do the job fearlessly or go home, and get with the times.'* 'Make serious spending cuts but take from the poorest last.'
The third test ended in a hard fought draw, and Day 5 found Henry glued to the TV. Cap'n Smith again ran the show well, and is making a good start to his time at the top. Interesting to read today's story to the effect the Mitch Johnson has been bowling more than his preferred 3 overs in a spell, which is preventing him from being his fully aggressive best. Shouldn't take more that a nanosecond for Cap'n Smith to resolve to do something about that. Personally, Henry thinks Mitch is a bit like Samson, it is the lack of facial hair which is holding him back. Let that hair grow Mitch, and see if that improves matters.
Still no action from ASADA about alleged drug taking at Essendon. This is a tabloid newspaper approach - trash their reputation, but never present the evidence in a forum in which it can be tested. Surely there is a law firm willing to sue ASADA for defamation of character on a success fee basis?
Soon we shall be in the Big Bash silly season and Henry can go back to work. Then it will be only 75 sleeps 'til the footy season when Henry and his co-religionists can watch Caaaarlton!'s desperate bid to finish in the top eight. In between is the Asian Cup of futball, which may provide a distraction or two.
Image of the week
Courtesy The Oz
'The present crisis, fortunately, is in no way attributable to unsound banking practices or property speculation. It is a crisis precipitated by catastrophic collapse in the values of [iron ore and coal], but which had its origans in the unsound borrowing pursued by the Australian government from [2009 - 20xx]'.
'... Australia, having got itself into difficulties by inflating its internal prices, cannot get out of difficulties without deflating its prices, which means in this case reducing wages and accepting temporarily a lower standard of living'.
This is not the fulmination of a latter day prophet of doom. It is an edited version of a comment made by the Economist in February 1931. In terms of the editing, in the original the words in the first set of brackets were 'wheat and wool', and the dates in the second set of brackets were '1922 - 1928'.
Australia at the time showed great good sense. Minimum wages were cut by 10 % and the exchange rate was devalued by 30 %. Now wages growth is slow - but without any dramatic cut - and the exchange rate is being devalued in fits and starts. After the dramatic price cuts of 1931, Australia recovered relatively fast, but there was no avoiding deep depression. Slow wages growth and fits and starts currency depreciation will give us little international advantage, as the dramatic currency and wages cuts did in 1931.
With current policies, our economy will struggle for years.
But do enjoy the fireworks and general festivities. Mrs Thornton sends her best wishes with Henry's for 2015 and beyond.
Remember: forewarned is forearmed.
Tony Abbott's reshuffle seems to have been a promising circuit breaker. Next step is to get a sensible narrative going. This will be harder, especially after more than a year of mixed messages and confusion, except of course for stop the boats, kill the carbon and mining taxes and sign three Free[r] Trade agreements.
One would have to say say, 'not a bad year comrades', except for the budget deficit, now 40 billion and still rising, failure to get medical and university reform through the Senate, and failute to carry the people on what has been achieved and what has been blocked by economically illiterate micro-party Senators.
Clearly it was time to Reboot. That done, where is the Paul Keating, with his unparalled ability to charm even class enemies and his suprising ability to grasp essentials of economic reform and to persuade his cabinet colleagues? Perhaps Mathias Cormann is the man, if he is given a serious chance to become the public face of the Abbott government's economic team. This team has been strengthened by promotion of two promising young liberals from the so far largely ignored state of Robert Menzies' Victoria, Josh Frydenberg and Kelly O'Dwyer.
So it's on with the show, and we wish the Abbott government every success in 2015. Vital this, as its success is our success, and its failure is our failure.
Henry's son Bert, has just returned after three weeks in Tiger country (South-East Asia). Bert was very taken by the cheerful energy of Singapore, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia and especially Vietnam. 'It's government is communist', Bert advised, 'but as effective capitalists they leave us for dead'. That judgment, from a young man well educated in economics, history and the law, is worthy of pondering, gentle readers.
We wish all our fellow Australians a wonderful, gradually reforming capitalist success in 2015.
Henry had the great pleasure of sitting through a day of absorbing test cricket yesterday, and will be listening on radio, with the TV screen turned on today, and, one hopes the next four days. After a catastrophic duck by batting hero, Dave Warner, Chris Rogers and Shane Watson steadied the ship with useful 50s, but with Mr Watson a chronic failure to go on and 'get a big hundred' he is copping some flack in the press today. 'Joe Burns for number three' is the cry today, after a well made 13 runs ended buy a silly shot. Henry is prepared to bet, smilin' Joe told himself 'This is pretty easy' just before the ever diligent - well almost always diligent Indian attack ended his first up camoe. the Australia's new super-star Captain and chief batter, Steve Smith, steading the boat again, finished the day on 72 not out, carrying the score to 5/259.
The boat was wobbling noticably at the end of the day, with midshipman Haddan ducking, weaving and taking hits for the team in the very cool breeze to offset the hot bowling.
'Lota work to be done yet, boys', Henry wishes to advise our tail-enders.
Speaking of boats, the SydneytoHobart got off to a fast start as some of that decidedly cool Southerly breeze made it to Sydney. Soon we'll be singing auld Lang Syne and hoping our footy team does a bit better, actually a lot better, if you require total honesty, in the 2015 season. Henry has got to the point that he now hopes for only one more premiership before he goes to a better place, and even that looks like wild hope at this time. We may be forced to begin to ask the great Architect for a Second Term for the Abbott government instead. Perhaps more likely than another premiership for Caaaaarlton! anytime soon, but also a more worthy wish as it willl provide more joy for the masses of well-to-do than a mere footy wish.
Image of the week.
Today we break with years of tradition and present an image from Henry's own brush.
The meaning onf this image will be obvious to any thoughtful reader - here is the link.
It is time for most of us to down tools and have a break from what are becoming increasingly tough times. I'd be delighted to present cheerier news, but it is hard to do so when Australia is suffering from three big challenges:* Double digit cost overhang, encouraging imports and discouraging exports;* Budget deficit out-of-control, adding $40 billion this year to a rapidly growing international debt;* Nasty political gridlock, frustrating the government's attempts to grapple with budget catastrophe.
The first point to note is that every boom of the sort we experienced in the 2000s is followed by a bust. We shall be very lucky to escape severe recession, or a long period of below potential growth, following the national party that was our good luck during the late, much lamented, China boom.
With the onset of the global crisis in 2007-08, Australia's government panicked and the head of Treasury, Dr Ken Henry, advised a crude Keynesian remedy - 'Go early, go hard and go households'. This may have saved some jobs, but it fostered all the wrong cultural messages. Spend, not save. At the first sign of trouble, your government will provide. There is no need to cut consumption and raise productivity in the face of a severe global shock. Item 1 below provides a more appropriate summary of current national imperitives.
So much for how we got here. A massive battle to restore budgetary balance is ahead of us all. Henry would prefer to balance the books with spending cuts, but a well developed sense of entitlement has Australians in its grip. Like the OECD and other expert groups, I believe a GST without exceptions and a top rate of 15 % will eventually be required, as it was in New Zealand. If Labor was fair dinkum it'd do a deal with the government on spending cuts and the suggested GST reform.
That is the least pain solution, and should include compensation for the most needy Australians for the associated increases in the cost of living.
The double-digit cost overhang is a harder nut to crack. Fortunately Australian people are sensible, as shown by the low recent rate of cost increases, especially wage cost increases. If this discipline can be maintained as the dollar falls the cost overhang will be gradually eroded. But there is a lot that a government could do to help reduce costs by structural reform. Here are Henry's suggestions.
This year has seen Australia's monetary policy stuck 'easy'. Henry cheered when Rupert Murdoch noted the link between easy money and asset inflation, and the adverse effect of asset inflation on equality of income and wealth. The article linked here provides the start of an explanation, one that I hope to fill out with serious econometric testing during 2015.
(A reader said 'This would be easier to understand with diagrams. The painting contains the diagrams, three in fact, and anyone who renews his or her goldmembership will receive an explanation.)
Australia is lucky that its central bank, the RBA, has expanded less aggressively than the major central banks. During 2014 the US Fed abandoned a long-held policy of allowing asset booms to go on without any response than to clean up after the bust. New Fed Chief Janet Yellen announced use of 'mactoprudential policy' to curb asset booms, leaving monetary policy to provide overall economic control with low goods and services inflation. This finally helped people to understand the wise saying of Milton Friedman: 'Monetary policy cannot serve two masters'.
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The first test against India was a rip-snorther and the second is shaping to be just as exciting. With Australia on the ropes at 6 for not very much, the Indians abandoned their usually gentlemanly virtue to slede Mitchell Johnston. Mitch responded with one of the best number 8 batting Henry has seen. Day 4 awaits, gentle readers, do not tarry in the shopping marts.
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The Treasurer and Finance minister have provided the current 'best guess' about Australia's budget, and it is an ugly picture. We are all hostage to the budget mess just as surely as were the unfortunate people held hostage in the coffee shop in Sydney's Martin Place. Fixing the budget will require stern action by the authorities, as in the Martin Place siege, and there will be casualties.
Some people will find this description macabre, even offensive. But it is a macro statement of the horrible micro-events of yesterday in Sydney. After living high on the hog - too high it turns out - Australia is facing a difficult and painful readjustment to a new reality. Never before has Australia (or any other country, it must be noted) enjoyed a massive boom (not of its own making, it should be noted) without an equally tough bust. The development boom of the 1880s was followed by deep depression in the 1890s. The share boom of the 1920s was followed by the deep depression in the 1930s. The resource boom of the early 1970s was exaggerated by the over-spending boom of the Whitlam government and followed by a jobs bust and then the long, dreary government of Malcolm Fraser.
Famously, the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) followed a massive real estate and share boom but the bust, though severe, lead to a long recession but not a great depression, except in the poor and heavily indebted nations of the Eurozone and the hard working nations of Asia. Southern Europe was forced to adopt savage deflationary policies, and prevented from currency devaluation to restore competitiveness, and these nations are still wallowing in deep depression whose ultimate consequences cannot confidently be predicted.
Australia was a polar opposite to Greece, Italy, Portugal and the other poor nations of Southern Europe. The China boom was hardly touched by the GFC and our resource boom rolled on. Australia's government panicked and the head of Treasury, Dr Ken Henry, advised a crude Keynesian remedy - 'Go early, go hard and go households'. This may have saved some jobs, but it fostered all the wrong cultural messages. Spend, not save. At the first sign of trouble, your government will provide. There is no need to cut consumption and raise productivity in the face of a severe global shock.
This writer much preferred the Icelandic solution when its three banks failed and could not be saved. 'You will have to learn to go fishing again' said the Prime minister.
Many nations are still wallowing in prolonged recession, Japan and Europe in particular. America is showing signs of recovery, but asset prices are roaring and recovery is likely to be compromised when the US Fed begins to raise interest rates. China's miracle economy is slowing and global commodity prices are being decimated. Australia's mini-miracle economy is suffering from the end of the investment phase of the mining boom while many other industries have been damaged by the greatly overvalued currency which, thank goodness, is finally and belatedly now sinking.
Australia's governments have since the onset of the GFC suffered a string of surprises that manifests most clearly in Treasurers constantly overestimating receipts and underestimating budget deficits. While the falling exchange rate is mainly due to falling commodity prices, international investors are noticing our inability to control these deficits.
Australia's government debt was negative when Peter Costello handed the keys of the Treasury to Wayne Swan. Now it is rising with successively higher budget deficits and if this is not stopped far sooner than currently predicted Paul Keating's 'Banana Republic' cry will again be heard. It should not be forgotten that household debt and business debt also has to be serviced, and with current trends Australia's total debt will be become a serious limitation on individual economic freedom, even if it does not currently look that way.
Jobs are growing more slowly than population and therefore the rate of unemployment is rising even though many older Australians are dropping out of the workforce. Furthermore, part time jobs are providing most of the jobs growth, and many of the available jobs are low paid and do not use the skills current young people have acquired in universities. There is a glut of graduates in law, for example, but law firms are the latest to send work offshore where, a senior lawyer said at a recent social event, work can be done at 10 % of the Australian rate. Accountancy will follow this trend shortly, while Fly-in, Fly-out work practives sould an ominous warning.
Australia needs policies to fix the budget. The quality press is beginning to point out that Labor must help fix the mess it did so much to create. Cross-bench Senators have a lot to answer for also, as they have so far blocked several of the more important budget repair efforts and seem to think like Labor 'the budget crisis not belonga me'. Overall cost levels are far too high and will be even harder to fix than the bloated budget.
'Enough, Henry', Mrs T has cried. 'Dinner is on the table'. Henry and his family are blessed, but like all Australians subject to the iron laws of economics. Instead of Ken Henry's crude Keynesian dogma, the alternative should be: 'Work hard; innovate; and save. Not so snappy, or populist, but far more likely to produce a real mini-miracle economy.


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Well I just finished the game last night. Overall I give it a 7.5/10.
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Individually I'd rate it like this:
Graphics - 9.5/10
Sound - 8/10
Story - 7/10
Gameplay - 7/10
The heat effects in this game were just amazing. Reminded me a lot of some of the steam FX you could see in the hallways while playing FC. But I think Doom3 did a better job with that effect, or at least used it more liberally for obvious reasons (the setting of the game itself). I was just amazed at how beautiful some of the rooms in the dig areas looked. All those glyphs on the walls, etc.. Just gorgeous, especially the Star Room. The teleportation beams with all the souls flying around in them was quite the site. Character models were excellent, better IMO than FC.
The story... Well I guess it was pretty much what I expected. Not disappointed in it, just not really thrilled about it I guess. I didn't mind the PDAs and reading the e-mails, viewing the video discs, etc.. That was all fine. I guess it just didn't really blow my hair back all that much in this regard.
When I first started playing the game was very scarey. I wasn't used to all these surprises. Enemies spawning behind you, etc. were pretty startling. Unfortunately, it did get tedious after a while. IMO the first 2/3 of the game started to drag after a while. It just go to predictable for my tastes. It lost the scary aspect and that's why I kinda ding it a bit on the gameplay. The saving grace for it was that the last 1/3-1/4th of the game things started to get interesting again once you kill those two hellknights and head through the portal to hell. From there it picked up a bit and I really liked battling the spider bitches in the ruins. Lotsa fun there, great time to whip out the BFG and dish out the hurt.
Overall, definitely worth the price of admission but I believe the caption for option 7 on the poll is right in line with my experience. Definitely worth the one through but this is not a game that has much replay value for me personally. After beating it the 1st time on veteran I don't think I'll be playing it through on nightmare. I can't wait to see what else comes out using this engine as it definitely does look purty.
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