Columns by Mr Pascoe are always entertaining and fun to read, and when the drive to catch eye balls is in harmony with talking sense they can be powerful medicine. In his […]
Mr Pascoe: Only two mistakes…….provided we don’t talk about the big one.
South Australia pays the price of the LNP obsession with #FakeInvestment
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill correctly rejects a population Ponzi scheme as an economic plan for South Australia’s future. The biggest challenge facing South Australia and other regional parts of Australia is the preferred […]
Premier Gladys: Selling off NSW homes to foreign buyers by the plane load.
25% of all new housing construction in NSW is sold to a foreign buyer. In addition there are many sales of existing houses and apartments to the hundreds of thousands of foreign […]
Socialism with a spine? Is that the only alternative?
In an article published by the Guardian today John Quiggin discusses whether “Socialism” may find new support now that the flaws in neoliberal economics are becoming impossible to ignore. A lively discussion […]
A Big Australia and the problem of #FakeInvestment: A note for Dr Andrew Leigh
Macrobusiness reported the latest ABS release on demographics. “…….The ABS released its Australian demographic statistics for the March quarter of 2017, which revealed that Australia’s overall population growth rate has accelerated led […]
The end of Oz car manufacturing – “Mission Accomplished” by the LNP, RBA and APRA
So the end of Australian car manufacturing has arrived with closures of both the Toyota and Holden plants to take place by the end of October. Next year Australians will buy close […]
Build to Let: The latest non-solution to a problem that should not exist.
The Australian Financial Review has been providing a lot of ‘supportive’ coverage for the promoters of the new “Build to Let” housing model. Now that it appears that Mr Scott Morrison is […]
Is Australia becoming a colony again? And who is the coloniser?
Colonialism is often in the news and as a ‘former’ colony Australians might have some sympathy for the Indian perspective presented by Shashi Tharoor for the affirmative side of this debate “Does […]
APRA and credit creation regulation: Economic secret business
It is that day of the month when the RBA board meets to pluck some wings off bats, boil them with eyes of newt and distil the resulting mixture down to an […]
Australia’s sick housing markets: Why we need a vacancy rate target of 4-5%
The latest “instant noodle” solution to Australia’s housing affordability crisis is “Build to rent”. Rather than have “normal” people be able to buy a block of land in one of the largest […]
Ending the era of speculation – An economic reform plan for the ALP and Australia
So the Turnbull government is blowing itself up day by day and poll by poll. It seems as though fanatics in the government cannot wait for the policy ‘purity’ opportunities of being […]
Population Pressures: Why isn’t decentralisation working in Australia?
Decentralisation is only a pipe dream whilst we are running an economic model and strategy that has centralisation baked in. Bernard Salt and George Megalogenous continually ignore what is driving the population […]
Fed Watch: Asset Swap myths, legends and other bulldust
A report in Bloomberg states that there is talk that the US Federal Reserve ‘might’ start reducing its $7 Trillion dollar mountain of mortgage backed securities. This rumour concerns one of the […]
APRA Watch: Bank regulation by smoke and mirrors
Today on Macrobusiness.com.au another excellent Deep T journey down through the house of mirrors that is APRA’s regulation of Australian private bank credit creation. Unquestionably absurd. If a casual observer thought this APRA […]
Balanced Budgets: What drives that mania?
The “balanced budget paradox” is an interesting paradox as the implications of it are obvious but many remain oblivious to them. It would seem that hiding in plain sight remains an excellent […]
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