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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Recession's lost youth
Ross Gittins The downturn may have been short, but it has hit young people especially hard.
Deficit realities finally dawn on all
Ross Gittins Something highly significant has happened in just the past week: it's become clear the tide has turned in our politicians' demonisation of budget deficits and debt.
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More to life than going along with big bosses
Ross Gittins Keynes was wrong. He famously said that in the long run we are all dead. But since last week I've been an economic journalist for 39 years and I'm still alive to tell the tale.
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Hedging bets makes sense
Ross Gittins FOR those inclined to worry, what has been brewing in the rest of the world, particularly Europe, in recent days is quite worrying - though, as yet, nothing too terrible has actually happened.
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Change is the price of affluence
Ross Gittins When I was a kid marbles were the rage. When you played at home with your brothers and sisters, mum made sure that, whoever won, everyone got their marbles back when the game was over.
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This is no Sunday school: prosperity comes with pain
Ross Gittins Discord and suffering are the price we pay for getting richer.
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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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Punters well aware of economic case against more immigration
Ross Gittins The Big Australia issue has gone quiet since the election but it hasn't gone away. It can't go away because it's too central to our future and, despite Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott's rare agreement...
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.
