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The below presentation by Dr Ole Peters opened my mind. If there was one thing I believed was reasonable about economics, it was the assumpt...

I spoke on Sunday at an event in Sydney, hosted by Sustainable Australia , called Housing Affordability: An honest debate. A video should ...

In a recent post I explained how home rents are mostly wasted spending arising from futile price competition amongst potential tenants. I l...

That’s what I’m calling a class of nonsense policies designed specifically to not address a social problem, but to rake profits from those f...

When foreign supermarket chains ALDI and Costco entered Australia, did Coles and Woolworths welcome them with open arms? What a silly ques...

In his famous book, The Greatest Show on Earth , Richard Dawkins’ presents a Forest of Friendship story, which contains within it a powerful...

I have just read a fantastic economics book. In entertaining detail, it outlines many issues in the economics profession that I feel stro...

The Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development has released a discussion paper about value capture; an idea that the incremental ...

Basics To think about company tax, we have to first understand it. These taxes apply to a type of entity run by humans with its own ...

When the Brexit vote stunned the world’s elite (obviously it didn’t stun the millions who voted for it) I wrote about some simple lessons...