Ross Gittins
Ross Gittins is economics editor of the SMH and an economic columnist for The Age. His books include Gittins' Guide to Economics, Gittinomics and The Happy Economist.
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Ceiling on housing affordability reached, and won't be breached
Ross Gittins For years when people at dinner parties worried about houses becoming too expensive for the younger generation to afford, I used to tell them not to worry: it was logically impossible for prices to...
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Upside to economy's downside
Ross Gittins Pessimists who saw an economy in bad shape are finally being vindicated, and an election win may be their reward.
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Pessimists may finally get it right
Ross Gittins As far as the economy's concerned, 2013 will be the year when many people's dreams come true. For at least the past two years, many of us - business people and consumers alike - have been convinced...
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Poverty, always the poor relation
Ross Gittins It's remarkable that, despite all the effort and expense the government goes to in measuring gross domestic product, it doesn't run to the modest extra expense of measuring poverty.
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Prudence is back - and it's about time, too
Ross Gittins One of the first lessons economists teach us is that the economy moves in cycles of boom and bust. A second, trickier lesson is that although most of the changes going on in the economy at any moment...
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Dear prudence, you've come back to stay
Ross Gittins It's better for businesses to adapt to the way the world now works.
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Houses hit affordability ceiling, the price plateau is here to stay
Ross Gittins The decade of skyrocketing values was down to a one-off, and now it's over.
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A crack in the wall of xenophobia
Ross Gittins Politicians have long played to age-old fears of outsiders in demonising asylum seekers - but things are changing.
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Country ripoff? Bulldust
Ross Gittins Regional Australians are convinced they don't get a fair go, with city folk the villains.
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Stop beating about the bush and talk about Big Australia
Ross Gittins Something significant has happened in this hollow, populist election campaign: the long-standing bipartisan support for strong population growth - Big Australia - has collapsed.
What Keneally and co achieved ... and what they didn't
Ross Gittins This budget foreshadows a marked improvement in the budget balance, which has returned to operating surplus two years earlier than expected.
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Recession's lost youth
Ross Gittins The downturn may have been short, but it has hit young people especially hard.
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Rate rises set to start, but pain won't be great
Ross Gittins There's a high chance the Reserve Bank board will decide to raise the official interest rate at its meeting tomorrow. Failing that, it will move at the following meeting on Melbourne Cup day.
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Jobless fall by the wayside in crusade to harness grey power
Ross Gittins Are you appalled by the greedy decision by the state governments to appropriate a quarter of the hard-won $32-a-week age pension increase from singles living in public housing? Do you share the view...
