FET (old posts)

My new book with Prof. Paul Frijters about the grey corruption Game in Australia has been officially released today. It explains how th...

On Friday 28th April I am appearing and Queensland’s Crime and Corruption Commission’s Operation Belcarra as an expert witness on relations...

Key Points In asset trading markets prices are set through buyer competition It takes only one extra buyer to bid up the price at an aucti...

Standard economic theory says that firms maximise profits, or revenue minus costs. I had always taken this to be a self-evident truth given ...

Prosper Australia has for years been conducting research into how many of Australia’s 9.8 million homes are left vacant. Their major findi...

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...