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- From: c.oneill@trl.oz.au (Chris O'Neill)
- Subject: Re: Dividend imputation Re: Australia's Debt : IBIS view
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.070355.26115@trl.oz.au>
- Sender: root@trl.oz.au (System PRIVILEGED Account)
- Organization: Telecom Australia Research Laboratories
- References: <1992Nov16.073125.11494@trl.oz.au> <1992Nov16.225005.2878@trl.oz.au>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 07:03:55 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1992Nov16.225005.2878@trl.oz.au> andrew@medici.trl.OZ.AU (Andrew
- Jennings) writes:
- >>
- >>I find it somewhat worrying that someone who is supposed to be in the
- business
- >> of providing business information and who gets quoted by a newspaper doesn't
- >> seem to understand the benefit of dividend imputation.
- >>
- >
- >Perhaps he was misquoted, since it seems that the forms of saving he is
- >advocating are precisely those which dividend imputation favours.
- >
- >There is the question here also of personal savings. Its not just the balance
- >of trade, its having a pool of savings to draw on for creating new companies.
-
- Yes, as I said in my other reply, savings and the balance of trade are closely
- related. Mr. Ruthven might have been slightly off-line when he said:
-
- >The federal government's insistence that the balance of payments
- >problem could be solved by increasing exports was "propaganda" and
- >Australia was heading for disaster.
-
- Assuming that the federal government meant that increasing exports led to an
- increased trade surplus, then what they said is correct, the balance of
- payments problem could be solved.
-
- Mr. Ruthven would have been clearer if he had said that a sufficient trade
- surplus probably would not occur unless there was more saving.
-
- Chris O'Neill
- Telecom Research
-