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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Big companies' tax avoidance blatant and shameless
Ross Gittins Paying your fair share is anathema to multinationals.
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Self-interest at heart of super industry gripe
Ross Gittins Politicians must steel themselves to fix a mess that will keep growing.
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Bitter tears hide super self interest
Ross Gittins Have you noticed? Our guardians in the superannuation industry have come out swinging to defend us against the changes to superannuation announced in the budget.
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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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Rates gap a fair price to pay for safer banks
Ross Gittins As I'm sure you've gathered, a surprising number of our industries are going through a painful, job-shifting process economists euphemistically refer to as ''structural adjustment''.
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An ugly truth: it's time we raised taxes
Ross Gittins Smaller government means squeezing public services spending.
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Don't judge government by its size
Ross Gittins In the early 1980s, not long after I got into the economic commentary business, Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were riding high and the great enthusiasm of the moment was the need for Smaller...
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Human cost of inaction incalculable
Ross Gittins Do you ever wonder how the environment - the global ecosystem - will cope with the continuing growth in the world population plus the rapid economic development of China, India and various other...
