Macroeconomics Advisory 2022-23 October Commonwealth Budget Preview
This briefing summarises our preliminary views regarding the Federal Budget 2022-23 – October edition. Our focus in previewing Budget 2022 Mark II is the risks to medium-term sustainability from fiscal …
Chalmers misses chance to re-anchor the budget on Tuesday night, Stephen Anthony in the Australian Financial Review, 24 October 2022
In this article in the Australian Financial Review, Macroeconomics Advisory’s Stephen Anthony contends that whilst the government’s economic team has hardly put a foot wrong since May, the Treasurer has …
Economic growth to slow as warnings mount over size of budget deficit, Stephen Anthony in The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 October 2022
In this article in The Sydney Morning Herald, Stephen Anthony alerts that the budget will remain in structural deficit for decades without a proper approach to spending restraint.
The Tinker Bell budget: Clap if you believe it makes sense, Stephen Anthony in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, 29 March 2022
A comment piece by Peter Hartcher in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age asks readers to “Clap if you believe” that the 2022 Federal Budget is responsible and can …
Budget must check Australia out of never-ending debt and deficit, Stephen Anthony in the Australian Financial Review, 27 March 2022
In a Budget 2022 opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Macroeconomics Advisory’s Chief Economist Stephen Anthony alerts that Treasurer Josh Frydenberg must take maximum advantage of the strong recovery …
Higher interest rates, slow growth ‘a risky mix’, Stephen Anthony in The Australian, 23 March 2022
Referencing the Macroeconomics Advisory 2022-23 Commonwealth Budget Preview, Macroeconomics Advisory Chief Economist Stephen Anthony observes in an article in The Australian that we should take remedial action now to guard against …
More worried by charts than policy: Critics circle RBA ahead of review, Stephen Anthony in the Sydney Morning Herald, 28 December 2021
In this Sydney Morning Herald article, Macroeconomics Advisory’s Stephen Anthony discusses his recent paper on quantitative easing, which was published in the ANU Agenda journal.
Goldilocks and the Three Drivers of Fiscal Sustainability, Stephen Anthony in Tax Policy Journal for the Taxpayers Research Foundation
This paper examines whether the independent Parliament Budget Office (PBO) is being too optimistic in its current assessment of the fiscal sustainability of the Australian Government over the next forty …
MYEFO charts no return to surplus this decade or the next, Stephen Anthony in the Australian Financial Review, 16 December 2021
In this Australian Financial Review opinion piece, Stephen Anthony suggests that the Australian Government’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) demonstrates the imperative that we make sensible fiscal choices now, …