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Month: January 2013

The perils of insular thinking

Melbourne's ticketing fiasco reflects the same sort of insularity that gave us compulsory voting and a broken school funding system, among other things.

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And over the cliff we go – sort of

A deal dragged the United States back up the fiscal cliff, and the markets loved it.

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