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NOTE: This post was written in November 2020 for a magazine that later decided it was too controversial. Some notes to reflect new informati...

My report on superannuation came out at the beginning of 2020. One of the main arguments in that report is that Australia’s superannuation ...

After the global financial crisis of 2008 the Australian government responded with a large fiscal stimulus. Initially worth about $10 billio...

The sale price of homes is not the economic price of housing. Prices, in the economic sense, are the relative cost of consuming newly-produc...

Modern housing economists, following in the footsteps of Ed Glaeser, seem to think that the market price of land should be zero. Land only h...

First published at Sydney Business Insights . What chance does a political party promising to radically reduce home prices to improve afford...

Interest rates are the main story for home prices in Australia. With our deregulated banking system, all demand for mortgages can be satisfi...

These comments were reported in The Australian on 10 Sept 2020 . _____________________________ At the current 9.5% compulsory contribution r...

You are a housing developer with a large plot of land on the fringes of a major city with no planning constraints. How quickly should you se...

Recent Twitter exchanges have helped me to understand a couple of additional confusions in the housing supply debates. Let me take them one ...