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The  great Australian retail adjustment  is happening now at a store near you. Myer Managing Director Bernie Brookes recently announced t...

Recent discussions about the CPI have brushed over a key change that occurred in the construction of the index in 1998. In its 13th Series ...

Fungibility  is a feature of a good where two items of that good are so close in their features that they equal substitutes.  Currency is t...

*I am now posting as a regular contributor at Macrobusiness under the alias Rumplestatskin.  I will be posting copies of posts at both web...

*I am now posting as a regular contributor at Macrobusiness under the alias Rumplestatskin.  I will be posting copies of posts at both webs...

While the RBA has warned of the risks of leveraging into the housing market on national television, they, and other analysts, have also pre...

I have been meaning to write about using quarantine as a barrier to trade since Queensland’s banana crop was destroyed by cyclone Yasi last...

The above video is from Bernard Salt's presentation at the 2011 Property Council of Australia's 'Geared for Growth' Congr...

But I see offhand no other way to prevent financial transactions disguised as trade In 1 972, after the collapse of the Bretton Woods syst...

Over at Naked Capitalism is a fantastic interview with David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 years . The most intersting point fo...