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I’ve long puzzled over the exact mechanism by which planning regulations are supposed to constrain the rate of new housing supply. Sure, the...

March 2020 — People lose their minds My first ever public comment about COVID was this . I was both prescient and wrong. Everyone has lost t...

*This article is based on a  submission to the Housing Supply Inquiry that I contributed to for Prosper Australia. This neglected economic ...

I listened to a frustrating Sam Harris podcast about COVID policy yesterday. What struck me about these "expert" commentators was...

Not that long ago Germany as a whole f eatured heavily in this debate over planning rules and house prices. With Frankfurt topping the lates...

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” ’The qu...

A video of my testimony to the inquiry is here (from 11:00:00) My full written submission is here  and my follow-up response to questions r...

A discussion about the best way to provide below-market-priced housing popped up on Twitter recently. Peter Tulip noted many of the limitati...

Dwelling assets are being repriced globally, as expected by central banks who have sought to achieve this with their interest rate policies....

The GAMSAT is an entrance test that all prospective students to medical schools in Australia must take. I want to use a hypothetical scenari...