FET (old posts)

Blog posts were not as frequent as I would have liked this year. But I did gain a much wider audience with some of the more popular posts t...

Investment property income beats working I often joke that my investment property earns more than I do. Thinking more about this led me to ...

Let's bet on when the consortium  entering a deal to build a new casino in Brisbane will go bust. I will bet straight after the comp...

There are two parts to this blog post. First the important stuff, clarifying the weirdness of capital and the confusion of applying economic...

One feature of economics is its uncanny resemblance to religion . When a complex question arises outside of your narrow field of expertise, ...

My last post on unpopular economic opinions was actually quite popular. Here are some more. 1. There is no such thing as freedom. Ever...

I spoke last week at the EDO LawJam about missing elements in the economic analysis of major projects in Queensland, and across Austral...

1. School is mostly about indoctrination into the national identity . It is also about child care, and for older children, about keeping th...

China abandoned its one-child policy yesterday. Just about everything I’ve read since explains that this policy shift is a result of fears ...

I wrote a submission during the consultation on reforms to the Queensland planning system . As you are probably aware, my research in this a...