Wisdom of Crowds: Budget Edition

Economics
Fiscal Policy
Politics
Author

Stephen Kirchner

Published

May 19, 2009

Only 30% of Newspoll respondents believe the federal budget will be back in surplus within six years.  There is a sharp partisan divide on this issue, although surplus skepticism increases with age and income.  It is interesting that the most well received federal budget since 1993 was also the Howard government’s last.