The John Hyde Archives
Historic archive of articles and newspaper columns written by former Australian politician John Hyde OAM.
Interest Rates
Interest Rates will fall by 2%
- Overseas influences coupled with a need to fund the public deficit and an uncertainty about future inflation caused a small dip and a raise in interest rates.
Housing Interest Rates
Regulation Monetary Policy Interest Rates
- Regulated interest rates cause those that are unable to obtain regulated money to resort to hire purchase and second mortgages. They also distort housing supply.
Housing Interest Rates
- High interest rates reduce consumption by the same amount that savings would have increased.
Interest Rates Are Not Doing the Job
Interest Rates Economics Business
- When there is not a need to rely on interest rates to kill demand, the inflow of foreign investment will fall.
Interest Rates
Interest Rates Politics Monetary Policy
- It is impossible for the control the supply and price of money, by trying to control the price, the government lost control of the quantity.
- Paul Keating has been a stricter adherent of monetary policy than Malcolm Fraser.
Interest Rates
Interest Rates Monetary Policy
- Any attempt to regulate interest rates down, would be a recessive transfer of wealth from the low-income people to the middle income.
About
John Hyde OAM is a former Australian politician. He was elected as the member for the Division of Moore in Western Australia for the Liberal Party.
John Hyde OAM is the author of Dry: In Defence of Economic Freedom.