2 thoughts on “Hat trick! My newsletter for August”
Sorry to hear about your bike crash. I’m recuperating from one myself, luckily no broken bones, but depressingly – enough injuries to keep me off the bike for at least a month. The WFH change makes this less painful.
If we retain duopoly and fullfill AUKUS and “Enhanced Cooperation Initiative under the Force Posture Agreement between the U.S. and Australia” (see B2’s in Australia – johnquiggin.com/2022/08/08/monday-message-board-565/comment-page-1/#comment-254743 )
… JQ’s calculations and ‘free lunch’ will in part be used to justify spending on ‘defence’ and weapons and war.
John Quiggin 
Sorry to hear about your bike crash. I’m recuperating from one myself, luckily no broken bones, but depressingly – enough injuries to keep me off the bike for at least a month. The WFH change makes this less painful.
Domínguez & Quiggin’s new paper;
“Australia’s Fiscal Space: The Role of Public Investment”
Begoña Domínguez,
John Quiggin
First published: 22 July 2022
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8462.12481
… neatly outlines up to 79% of GDP ‘free lunch’.
If we retain duopoly and fullfill AUKUS and “Enhanced Cooperation Initiative under the Force Posture Agreement between the U.S. and Australia” (see B2’s in Australia – johnquiggin.com/2022/08/08/monday-message-board-565/comment-page-1/#comment-254743 )
… JQ’s calculations and ‘free lunch’ will in part be used to justify spending on ‘defence’ and weapons and war.
Did you think the free bit meant it won’t cost?