Bill Evans, long time RBA twitcher, is harbouring some doubts (click link) about the wisdom of the RBA Board cutting the target rate further next Tuesday. What’s up Bill? Why are you […]

So Westpac is going to charge non-resident borrowers a bit extra on their speculations in Australian property. The very idea that our local banks would be extending credit to non-residents to speculate […]

An excellent read at Macrobusiness this morning But on this occasion, I am a bit biased “And is keeping that spiggot open a solution, Gotti? Self-evidently, not. It’s not the content of […]

This comment was made at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) Excellent. However, the final reel of this movie is much more exciting than you […]

This comment was made at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) Unfortunately, while the end of the neo-liberal monetary policy epoch – including the outsourcing […]

This comment was made at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) It is not really surprising that we are finding diseased, and unhealthy goods entering […]

This comment was made at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) Land use restrictions should be relaxed right across the country. Rather than the current […]

This comment was made at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) The worst land banking offender is the govt. Ever since the model of outsourcing […]

This comment was made at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) Is he pragmatic enough to understand that repeating IPA talking points and working through […]

This comment was made at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) As others have noted – increasing the asset threshold would ensure that including the […]

This comment was made at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) Considering the role the RBA board accepted as the de facto manager of the […]

This comment was made at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) Good to see that Darwin has managed to hold on to that 3 but […]

This comment was made at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) Good to hear but vacancy rates across Sydney are still very low (circa 2%). […]

This comment was made at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) What is this prestige requirement for hire cars? That sounds unlikely, just because some […]

This comment was made today at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) Flawse, Your inflexible bladder analogy is over stating the position. Sure the economy should […]

This comment was made at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) If overseas central banks are exploring NIRP Australia could attract capital simply by being […]

This comment was made this week at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au  (link may be locked) http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/ford-threatens-early-exit-jobs-shock-looms/#comment-1082885 It is a crying shame that we adopted policies that bloated our exchange rate with sales of public and […]

This comment was made this week at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au  (link may be locked) http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/ford-threatens-early-exit-jobs-shock-looms/#comment-1083095 I think it is worth keeping in mind that the ongoing but gradually reduced protection of the motor vehicle […]

This comment was made this week at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au  (link may be locked) http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/coalition-tighten-foreign-agricultural-investment/#comment-1084355 The solution to that problem is to restrict foreign investment in residential property to new builds. That way farmers […]

This comment was made this week at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au  (link may be locked) http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/coalition-tighten-foreign-agricultural-investment/#comment-1083744 It will be interesting to see how this works in practice with Mr Robb trumpeting FTAs where no questions […]

http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/australian-property-big-fat-sell/#comment-1078737 There are plenty of heads winds. Not least being the $95B of household disposable income disappearing down the gullet of the banks to pay interest on household debt mountain. Paying down […]

This comment was made this week at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au  (link may be locked http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/trade-deficit-halves-december/#comment-1054729 Superb effort by an economy enjoying a once in the lifetime mining boom. A deficit of $2.26 B Just […]

This comment was made this week at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au  (link may be locked) http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/mb-victory-lap/#comment-1055137 “….However, they may still succeed with their own brand of behind-the-scenes prudential tightening. Let’s hope so….” Why would APRA […]

This comment was made this week at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au  (link may be locked) http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/bloxo-addresses-rba-wedgie/#comment-1056844 More to the economy than houses? Like what? Even the Governor is clear that the cost of money is […]

This comment was made this week at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au  (link may be locked) http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/backbenchers-call-dead-duck-resign/#comment-1057108 I can’t see the LNP losing in NSW. The ALP in NSW has been in a psych ward for […]

This comment was made this week at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au  (link may be locked) http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/abbott-nails-foreign-property-investment-reform/#comment-1057122 Ironic how the only smart thing the government is doing was driven largely by a campaign of electronic graffiti. […]

This comment was made this week at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au  (link may be locked) http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/predicted-rate-cut/#comment-1059703 Yes, My preference is that they are not talking about currency simply because the objective of the cuts remains […]

This comment was made this week at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au  (link may be locked) http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/us-iron-ore-ceo-says-oz-manipulating-currency/#comment-1058526 That CEO is exactly right. It is quite clear that while the RBA are refusing to admit it the […]

This comment was made this week at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au  (link may be locked) http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/malcolm-hits-phone/#comment-1057759 I don’t think the ALP are what Mr Turnbull has to worry about. The radical neo-liberals and religious extremists […]

This comment was made this week at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au  (link may be locked) http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/glenn-stevens-attend-cabinet/#comment-1058280 You guys don’t need to speculate The meeting was video taped. Glenn and his Treasury Buddy explained at some […]

This comment was made this week at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au  (link may be locked) http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/canberra-awakes-economic-nightmare/#comment-1060580 Very good but lets believe it when we see it. The government has said nothing that suggests it has […]

This comment was made this week at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au  (link may be locked) http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/foreign-worker-visa-fraud-edges-towards-slavery/#comment-1061441 Restrict the unproductive capital inflows and you will get an exchange rate that better reflects our trade performance. Sensible […]

This comment was made this week at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au  (link may be locked) http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/foreign-worker-visa-fraud-edges-towards-slavery/#comment-1061237 “…now is entirely the wrong time for the Abbott Government to be further relaxing foreign worker visas,…” As we […]

This comment was made this week at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au  (link may be locked) http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/aussies-seem-want-pay-tax/#comment-1061743 I think it may be sarcasm. Hard to tell – The conversation is full of fluff like this – […]

This comment was originally made at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au (some of the links may be locked). http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/residex-sydney-housing-bubble/#comment-1065019 We can watch with interest just what APRA does, publicly and quietly over Monte Carlos, in the […]

This comment was made this week at http://www.macrobusiness.com.au  (link may be locked) in response to a post about the RBA rate cute. http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/nobody-clue-australias-real-problem/ “…….,Rate cuts to 1% will push the Aussie to […]

This comment was made at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) I guess we need to look on the bright side. A stronger $AUS is […]

This comment was made at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) All that international capital seeking a home and bidding up the dollar is allowing […]

This comment was made at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) Good to see that deposit growth is holding up despite the RBA very working […]

This comment was made at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) Another excellent article by SON to distract us for our ambrosia filled weekends. Isn’t […]

This comment was made at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) According to the CIA that drop from a peak over 2% to the present […]

This comment was made at Macrobusiness  (link may be locked – but there is a free trial available) Doesnt sound like too many people have played team sports. It is a lot […]