Stochastic Trend

I made a submission to the Senate Inquiry on the changes to capital gains tax. Just very simple economics, nothing complicated. Seems that ...

It seems that the Grattan Institute argues in its submission to the National Reform Summit that because Australia's government is rel...

There is still more than a week of campaigning to go, but Sportsbet has already paid out bets on the Coalition the election . Odds offere...

I get a huge amount of spam from something called "Inayah Group". Most of it is in Arabic or has no content but I noticed this i...

I went to see the "Crawford School Oratory" today given by Joseph Stiglitz - just one of the stops on his Australian tour. As you ...

I am reading an interesting paper by Thomas Piketty on inheritance and economic growth . It's a long paper with lots of stuff in it. But...

My immediate reaction to the RSPT proposal was to wonder if it will ever get through parliament as proposed and to suggest that at least th...

The Obama administration is acting to do something about the too big too fail phenomenon, which I flagged as a possible policy direction . ...

I wrote a very short review of "The Black Swan" a little while ago. Here is a good but very long review of Nicholas Nassim Taleb ...

Shuang brought home borrowed copies of Ziliak and McCloskey's "Cult of Statistical Signficance" and Taleb's "The Bla...