## Archive for the ‘poli-mics’ Category

### Funding the NBN

Simon Rumble posts some thoughts on the costings for the national broadband network. He offers some working, and requests corrections, so I thought I might redo the calculations. First, at its most basic $42B divided by 7.4M households means infrastructure costs of about$5,700 per household. That seems like a lot of cash, when (non-Telstra) […]

### Voted

So I’ve pre-poll voted in preparation for my trip to Melbourne for the LA face-to-face. Not a very exciting range of candidates: Anna Bligh for Labor who’s premier; Mary Carroll for LNP who’s apparently the state secretary of the party; Gary Kane for the Greens who’s running on an anti-developers platform, with light rail to […]

### Inflation

There’s been a few major issues lately where inflation and central banks have been key elements: Zimbabwe’s collapse under Mugabe, the recent Australian Federal election, and the US sub-prime mortgage crisis. What I find fascinating is that it all seems to be treated as an absolute black art by almost everyone, in spite of economics […]