My latest discussion with Steve Mickenbecker from Canstar.
Steve Mickenbecker is in Canstar’s Group Executive Team, bringing more than 30 years of experience in the Australian financial services industry. As a financial commentator for Canstar, Steve enjoys sharing his expertise across topics such as home loans, superannuation, insurance, mortgages, banking, credit cards, investment, budgeting, money management and more.
“Martin is a deep thinker and I really enjoyed this conversation. In this episode, we talk about the Australian & New Zealand Economies, the local investment mindset, and the overall financial markets there. In this conversation, we get quite philosophical on where the world is now as a result of COVID and where we could be going.
Absolutely fascinating and worth thinking about”.
Time Codes: 0:00:00 Welcome and context 0:03:37 What is your background? 0:06:36 What is behind the statements that are being made? 0:11:05 Assumption driven decisions 0:13:10 What is happening in Australia at the moment? 0:26:41 How is the Australian Government fighting against the pandemic? 0:36:14 Why is the stuff that the World Economic Forum is talking about looks terrifying? 0:47:30 What are your thoughts on MMT? 0:51:00 How do you think through your investment decisions? 0:55:00 How Australians approach investing? 0:59:30 Is the superannuation investing in real estate? 1:01:35 Where can people find out more about you?
More Federal and State Government blame-shifting as they try to avoid the real question of who is really responsible for the ultra-high home prices in Australia.
Another in our occasional deep drives on a selected suburb. Cooks Hill is an inner city suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It is typified by its tree lined streets, rows of Victorian terrace housing, turn of the century timber cottages and corner pubs.
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Another in our occasional series of deep post code dives.
Heidelberg is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 kilometres north-east of Melbourne’s central business district. Its local government area is the City of Banyule. In 2016, Heidelberg had a population of 6,225.
