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Property spruikers are currently having a field day proclaiming the productivity of housing investment. These claims are fallacious. Housin...

One question economics prefer to avoid is why irrational solutions to common problems faced each day by individuals seem to work. For exampl...

No need to correct my spelling.  It's my new revenue generating strategy (thanks Ben). At least it will be if current research on missp...

A guest post today from my very good friends Yo and Matt who are currently living in Singapore. Yo's list - 1. People buy whiten...

I have never run a marathon.  I never considered myself a runner. But lately I have grown to enjoy the rhythm of running, the pureness, and ...

One of the main lessons (or reminders for those trained in statistics) found in the Drunkards Walk deals with the reliability of data. Mlodi...

I was attempting to create a 'Make your own CPI' spreadsheet that uses the ABS price indexes for each commodity group and allows you...

I wrote once before that the concept of waste has been distracting environmentalist for decades. Today I came across this exceptionally int...

This  short article about inflation, and the ABS review of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), prompted me to write again on the subject.  In ...

One of my concerns with the evidence on the misinterpretation of randomness and probability in The Drunkards Walk arises during the discuss...