FET (old posts)

Reforming economics teaching has been a heated topic of debate since the financial crisis. My personal views on this align closely with ...

After decades of political pressure that systematically clawed back state and local government’s ability to tax land, the debate has now swu...

Humans are quite smart for hairless apes. But sometimes I wonder whether we really do have the edge over our distant cousins. Here’s an ex...

My  previous research  looked at favouritism in land rezoning via the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA) in Queensland. By looking at t...

My twitter feed has been aroused into fierce anti-capitalist protest. Welcome to 2016 I guess. This situation gives me chance to flesh...

I have two recent popular posts on my unpopular economic opinions ( here , and here ). Over the Christmas break I spent time reading and thi...

The latest news doing the rounds is a “crackdown” on childcare rorting to the tune of $7.7million a week (about $400million a year). Ah y...

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...