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Life expectancy has peaked in some US States according to recent research . This follows research published in 2005 that suggests current ...

Housing bubble – my favourite quote ““ No one can produce an explanation as to how fundamental factors can lead to a run-up in home sale pr...

Many thanks to Chris Joye for putting in the leg work to produce the below graph and associated analysis.  I recommend reading Joye's a...

As I alluded to in recent posts , Australian banks reliance on foreign funding has lead to the alarming situation whereby we (as a nation of...

To the cynic, the RBA’s role is to assure citizens that they have everything under control. In this light, we can see the recent speech de...

Glenn Stevens recently noted that Australian households grew their consumption faster than their incomes from the mid 1990s till 2006 and t...

Since the higher than expected CPI print last Wednesday, the economic blogosphere has flooded our screens with opinions on the likely RBA de...

There is a meme floating around which has its origins in Chris Joye's numerous articles on the Australian housing market. While I ofte...

Measuring food is difficult. Do we use kilograms, or calories? I’ve covered the value of food security before .  But the obvious truth ...

Michael Shermer talks about his theory of the brain as a ‘pattern believing machine’.  Put simply, we first believe in patterns subconscio...