Mortgage Stress Hits Another High!

This is a summary of the latest from our surveys, as we track rising financial stress across the country.

ASIC’s MoneySmart has some useful tool: https://moneysmart.gov.au/
The National Debt Help Line: https://ndh.org.au/

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We’re Back (But Its The Same Old, Same Old) With Tarric Brooker…

Journalist Tarric Brooker and I reconnected following my relocation, for the first in our series of bi-weekly afternoon chats about economics and politics. It may be a couple of months since our last, but in many ways, things are the same…

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DFA Live Q&A HD Replay: Household Finances Stress Scenarios Update

This is an edited version of my latest live discussion about the latest from models and post code analysis.

CONTENTS

0:00 Start
0:17 Introduction
3:10 Economics and RBA Data
18:01 DFA Stress Analysis
29:44 Mapping
39:09 Scenarios
40:00 Post Code Analysis (Q&A)
1:21:00 Getting Debt Advice Help
1:24:00 Summary And Close

Original show with chat here: https://youtu.be/YANetUOBHrg

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Is A 5% Fed Rate On The Cards?

The latest US sales data and GDPNow data signals the potential for higher rates, with some now talking about 5%, as Fed officials talk up more rises in the months ahead.

Results from retail were weaker, and some high-tech also, but markets are beginning to think about higher rates again, after the Fed continues to battle inflation. Mary Daly says a pause is off the table.

As a result, the markets had another down day.

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After The Rate Hike Deluge: With Peter Marshall

Peter Marshall has been working in the Australian banking and finance industry for over 20 years and oversees Mozo’s extensive product database. He is regularly sought out for his expert commentary and analysis on banking and interest rates trends by print, radio and TV media.

https://mozo.com.au/authors/peter-marshall

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We Need To Talk About Financial Stress…

The latest results from our household surveys and modelling underscores the rising financial pressure on households, thanks to higher costs of living, rent and mortgage repayments. As a result we are passing new records, and this before the RBA hikes again.

So today we walk though the results, map the high stressed areas and look at some specific post code examples.

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FINAL REMINDER DFA Live 8pm Sydney Tonight – It’s The Economy Stupid!

Join us for a live Q&A as I discuss the latest political and economics news with Robbie Barwick National Research Director from the Citizens Party.

https://citizensparty.org.au/

You can ask a question live via YouTube.

“Pandemic Proof”? – The DFA Daily 3rd Sept 2021

The latest edition of our finance and property news digest with a distinctively Australian flavour. In today’s show we look at the latest from the US markets, consider the view that our housing market is pandemic proof, consider New Zealand’s LVR policy tightening consultation and why the banks are taking a political stance on the virus.

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Who Breaks First The Economy Or Central Banks? – With Harry Dent

I caught up with Author and Economist Harry Dent. We picked apart the recent trends, and considered whether Central Banks will succeed in propping up the everything bubble, or whether the markets will finally see through their efforts, and crash, thus laying the foundations for a real boom later.

Please share this post to help to spread the word about the state of things….

Caveat Emptor! Note: this is NOT financial or property advice!!

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