Wednesday, May 14th, 2008...10:40 pm
Memo to Malcolm Turnbull
Working definition: Inflation Lake Dead dvd
is a sustained increase in the general level of prices. Repeat, and memorise.
When the federal budget outcome goes from a planned surplus of 1.2% to 1.8% of GDP, and there is a nominal net cut in outlays, that cannot be said to be putting upward pressure on inflation. So you’re wrong there, and that’s bad enough. But for you to argue that taxes on alcohol and luxury cars and real increases in government spending are the cause, is frankly unforgivable. They are opposite things. One is taking money out of the economy, and the other is pumping it in. Further, price increases due to once off events are not considered incidences of inflation. Repeat: inflation is a sustained Séance download
level of prices.
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May 14th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
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