FET (old posts)

The property market is Dubai is crashing and burning  as we speak.  It was inevitable of course, but never underestimate the perseverance of...

I have been thinking of changing the title of this blog—mostly because the term environmentalist is associated with fairly extreme views on ...

Congestion is a darling topic of politics and the media, and a topic of many conversations around the barbeque. But what is it? Is it a bad ...

My colleague is looking for a real estate agent to manage her house after downsizing to an apartment, choosing to keep the house as an inves...

Respected economist Alan Wood notes here why he believes small increases in foreign investment in the Australian real estate market will no...

There has been a paper recently published by Andrew Leigh , Economics Professor at ANU, which empirically estimates the impact of stamp dut...

When I first visited Japan in 2004 I saw the future - trains, gadgets, vending machines - but most importantly, I saw some amazing toilets. ...

I read a book that opened my mind recently. It is probably not on the best seller lists (is #53,525 rank in Amazon a best seller?). It is ca...

Markets and opportunity. Peas and carrots. Hand in hand go such things, and one would expect that in our new water conscious world, any dev...

People have instinctual short sightedness. It is a primal trait. Each passing day adds risks to the realisation of future events. Our probab...