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Articles: Economics

Straight from the Horse’s Mouth!

What the Economic Rationalists (Dries) Really Believed The below Guest Mannerism by John Hyde OAM was published in Amity, in September 2002″ During...

What the Economic Rationalists (Dries) Really Believed - John Hyde Newspaper Clipping

Slide-Rules, Capital and Remaining Focused

Avoiding socialism and wokeness! During a recent office clean-up, I came across my old slide-rule ….. What a useful item this was, in...

Who will be remembered as Ukraine’s economic reformer?

Rebuilding a war-torn economy: Economic reforms and making them stick. The below is a speech delivered by Ron Manners at the Warsaw/Kyiv leg...

Bratislava – Talking of Energy

The below is a speech delivered by Ron Manners at the Bratislava leg of the Free Market Roadshow 2023 Here we are in...

Revitalising Australia: How a “7D” Tax Code Could Spark Economic Growth and Job Creation

The below “Guest Mannerism” is written by Mannkal’s Chairman Designate Mac Nichols. In 1948 The West German Finance Minister, Ludwig Erhard instituted “7D”...

John Hyde awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia

Former politician, farmer, author, and recently retired director of the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation John Hyde has been awarded the Order of Australia...

Why does Senator Pauline Hanson remind me of Ukraine?

Those of us, fortunate enough, to have heard Pauline Hanson’s ‘Cost of Living’ speech in the Senate on Sept 7th, 2022 may have...

Bamboozled by one government stuff up after another?

(Easy to understand if you study one branch of economics) Is this a harsh headline? Why the focus on government failure? How do...

Geoffrey Brennan, RIP

Sadly Australian economics and political philosopher Geoffrey Brennan has suddenly passed away from complications of acute leukemia. I was in Canberra recently, but...

Inherited Debt – Getting Worse!

In 2012 I wrote a poem (below) expressing concern at the level of debt inherited by every newborn Australian. It was then $80,796...

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