it is a tricky balancing act to keep the economy on the simmer without burning it, sure we have a commodity boom but that creates problems too, some credit must go to Costello.
fatsoh - as for Akerman article, I don't know of his politics but it rung true because all I see is Rudd being the ever changing chamaleon who doesn't really stand for much at all, except getting voted in (a true Howard facsimile).