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HOUSING MARKET All things considered, the Australian housing market looks ready to dive.  My conversations with real estate agents are the ...

This unreliable article suggests that each passenger trip on the QR passenger network is subsidised in the order of $9 – probably double th...

This HSBC report ranks Australia as the best place to raise children for expats. IN fact, the media release suggest that the Expatriate Sur...

By far the best analysis of the impact of negative gearing on the residential property market is found here .  The myths that negative geari...

I have a habit of labelling any unintended consequence that works in the opposite way to the intended consequence as a rebound effect. With ...

This interesting post by American economist Tyler Cowen , who I believe now lives in Berlin, delves into some differences in the economic p...

Lewis's book provides a fascinating insight into the minds and mischief of the characters shorting the sub-prime mortgage market during...

Economists like to promote the idea that increasing the minimum wage results in fewer jobs . The law of demand states that when the price of...

In his book The Noble Lie: When Scientists Give the Right Answers for the Wrong Reason s, Gary Greenberg challenges conventional wisdom to s...

The proposed Resource Super Profits Tax (RSPT) has received both scathing criticism , and r eserved admiration . Critics proclaim that the m...