Ron Manners’ ideas 
and adventures

Articles: Economics

Why attend Mannkal’s Western Civilisation Conference?

A good question and you have a right to ask. Any observer, of Australia’s current pre-occupation with trivia and its avoidance of the...

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Choosing between two economic styles

The golden rule Mitchell’s Golden Rule explains that when the private sector grows faster than government, prosperity increases and when government grows faster...

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The world’s greatest treasurer?

One of the joys of returning to Australia is the experience of observing the priorities that beset Australians, locked away in our corner...

Mounting anger

Our feedback (via conversations, emails and Facebook) show the mounting anger from Australia’s ‘new generation’ at being left to ‘pick up the tab’...

Flaccid brains were on parade

Dr. Richard W. Rahn recently introduced the concept of Flaccid Brains with these comments: If government spending is growing faster than gross domestic product...

An optimistic future of the mining industry

The full title of this article is “The RDT (Rudd Dud Tax) — An optimistic future and indisputable evidence that the royalty-based tax...

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The Future Fund

Is the so-called “Future Fund” a fraud or just another tax on Australia’s struggling taxpayers? Today’s announcement of the A$14.5 billion contribution of...

In favour of globalisation

This was a speech given to the West Australian Mining Club in Perth on August 30, 2001. What is globalisation, anyway? It all...

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Humility

I gave this speech in 1995 at an Australian Mineral Foundation conference dinner. Here, I set out to solve problems relating to economics,...

Accountants: Australia needs you!

It’s ‘accrual’ world. Especially when you’re asked to address the Australian Society of CPA’s Resource Conference. This speech was delivered in October 1994...

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