Another year is pretty much over, and a new one on the way. I might try a review of 2006 early in the New Year, but for the moment I’ll just give my best wishes to all my readers and commenters for 2007.
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"I do not know how he is a professor, but anyway he purports to be an economist" Senator Richard Alston, ex-Minister for Communications
"One of the elder statesmen of the Oz blogosphere" - Age Media Blog
"More intelligent than Britney Spears"Jason Soon
"The great neo-classical iconoclast"Ross Gittins
"A green activist with a totalitarian mindset", editorial, The Australian
"would argue under a pile of wet statistics and produces more copy than Xerox". Stephen Matchett in the Australian
"the odd Quiggan (sic) is good mental exercise; all part of life's rich tapestry et al."Peter Jonson
"Wrong", "incorrect", "off the mark again" Institute for Public Affairs, Institute for Private Enterprise, Centre for Independent Studies etc.
"Never wrong"Tim Blair
"A compassionate exponent of the dismal science" Stewart Fist
"An indispensable weblog"Bear Left
"Quiggin strikes me as the stereotype of an Australian - joyful, hearty, and not particularly aware of his own strength."SomeCallMeTim
"Krugman of the Antipodes"Christopher Joye
" ... his chief delight was drinking cups of coffee at odd hours" Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time
Let’s hope 2007 brings some real accountability in the US, UK and Australia.
For a summation of 2006, it’s hard to go past Riverbend’s last dismal post.
I found the year too depressing for a serious review. Look forward to reading yours though.
Best wishes for the new year,
Kieran.
Happy NYers.
It’s been a great year for your blog Prof, and 2007 promises a great year for our blog
Wishing all a safer world in 2007.
Happy unears!
One really good thing about 2007,will be that we will see the end of Tony Blaikr!
That will be greatly to the good..that maniac stare,not to mention the endless lies and pandering to Mad King George.
Whatever Brown is like in the UK it be be to the good. Roll on the day !
Bulgaria and Romania are now a part of the European Union.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Bulgaria_and_Romania_are_new_European_Union_members
Happy 2007… to the oil companies!
This lengthy but anonymous article from AAP manages 1000+ words without once mentioning “Iraq”. In one bizarre passage, it suggests that last November’s price drop was caused by anticipation of another Hurricane Katrina, but – inexplicably, given identical forecasts this year – the price drop will not be repeated:
“2006 was heralded as being a very disastrous hurricane season and it turned out to be very benign. The forecasters are suggesting 2007 will be a terrible hurricane season, but I think this time the market is more likely to wait and see rather than react before that.”
Nothing whatsoever to do with US Mid-term elections, m’kay?
The bottom line for plebs like you and me, according to Service Station Association chief executive Ron Bowden, is that we should all be grateful for petrol over $1/litre … forever more.