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State budgets: Victoria and ACT stand alone at the bottom as worst fiscal managers, Khalid Ahmed and Stephen Anthony in the Australian Financial Review, 10 October 2023

In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Khalid Ahmed and Stephen Anthony alert that Victoria and the ACT stand out as the worst economic and fiscal managers in …

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Is Labor ready to face the coming storm? Stephen Anthony in The Australian, 28 October 2022

In this article by Paul Kelly in The Australian, Macroeconomics Advisory’s Stephen Anthony questions why Treasurer Jim Chalmers is delaying in implementing remedial action that is needed now.

Budget / Fiscal Policy / Macroeconomics / Monetary Policy

Perspectives on the Federal Budget: Stephen Anthony’s interview with the ABC’s Peter Ryan OAM, 26 October 2022

Budget / Fiscal Policy / Macroeconomics / Monetary Policy

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.

Budget / Fiscal Policy

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 …

VIDEO: Decades of deficit ahead for the Federal Budget, Stephen Anthony on ABC The Business
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VIDEO: Decades of deficit ahead for the Federal Budget, Stephen Anthony on ABC The Business, 28 March 2022

Macroeconomics Advisory Chief Economist Stephen Anthony says a big spending budget just as interest rates start rising again will leave less scope to balance the books and deal with major …

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Trillion dollar debt bomb to double to fund major spending as borrowing costs rise, Stephen Anthony on ABC News, 24 March 2022

With government debt hitting a trillion dollars in coming years, what’s being done to pay it down before global interest rate rises push up borrowing costs? Macroeconomics Advisory’s Chief Economist …

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Budget to upgrade wages forecast after worst year since 2000, Stephen Anthony in The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 March 2022

Macroeconomics Advisory’s Chief Economist Stephen Anthony alerts that there was now an entrenched structural deficit with spending stuck much higher than forecast revenue. A growing threat is posed by the …

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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 …

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Macroeconomics Advisory 2022-23 Commonwealth Budget Preview: is big debt good for Goldilocks or a Roach Motel?

In this Budget 2022 Preview note we find that the key to assessing the long-term sustainability of the Federal Budget is to compare the projected path of interest rates and …

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