Australia’s Living God is Deaf, Dumb and Blind

God is supposed to be all knowing and mere humans are required to religious houses of worship in order to obtain wisdom. In today’s episode, Adams is committing blasphemy by exposing that Australia’s living God – the RBA Governor Phillip Lowe – has little idea as to what he is doing.

In the past 2 weeks, Adams has gone to the monetary house of worship, the RBA and asked them a range of detailed questions as to determine what extent do they understand the impact of their monetary policy decisions on Australian households – especially in a situation that we have the largest hyper debt bubble in Australian history.

Unfortunately, in their most recent email, the RBA has expressed dissatisfaction at the number of questions I am posing! They obviously don’t like scrutiny.

What Adams has picked up from the email correspondence is that the RBA does not have a good real-time gage over disaggregated household cash position and thus, in the view of Adams, they are largely flying blind as to the real position of households and what the impact of monetary policy will be.

This is critical to know if you are basing your financial decisions on the statements of the RBA.

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Welcome To The Danger Zone: With Tarric Brooker [Podcast]

My latest Friday chat with journalist Tarric Brooker @AvidCommentator on Twitter. We look at the latest economic and financial news, and consider the consequences.

Tarric’s slides are available at: https://avidcom.substack.com/p/charts-that-matter-10th-june-2022

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Inflation Set To “Power” Higher!

More bad news on the inflation front as power prices are set to rise, and the ABS confirms many firms are seeking to lift prices where they can.

We are already seeing second order effects, and these will continue ahead.

The battle to tame inflation has hardly started yet.

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Your Home Is More Likely Not Your Own!

The ABS released their latest Housing Occupancy and Costs series for the financial year 2019-20. Now, this is important research of course but the potential of the findings to be useful are blunted by that fact that much has changed since June 2020, which of course was in the early phase of COIVD. With that caveat, there are some important findings.

First, in terms of basic home ownership, In the past two decades, from 1999–00 to 2019–20, the percentage of Australian households that own their own home: With or without a mortgage decreased from 71% to 66%. Without a mortgage decreased from 39% to 30%. With a mortgage increased from 32% to 37%.

In other words, more people are more in debt, no surprise for those following our shows. There are also some important state differences.

In the rental sector, Between 1999–00 and 2019–20, the percentage of Australian households that rent their home from: All landlord types increased from 27% to 31%. A private landlord increased from 20% to 26%. A state or territory housing authority decreased from 6% to 3%. Again there are significant state variations.

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Households Are Up To Their Necks In Stress..

My latest household stress analysis and mapping, as the numbers go off the dial. We also look at the most stressed electorates ahead of the upcoming election.

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Today’s post is brought to you by Ribbon Property Consultants.

If you are buying your home in Sydney’s contentious market, you do not need to stand alone. This is the time you need to have Edwin from Ribbon Property Consultants standing along side you.

Buying property, is both challenging and adversarial. The vendor has a professional on their side.

Emotions run high – price discovery and price transparency are hard to find – then there is the wasted time and financial investment you make.

Edwin understands your needs. So why not engage a licensed professional to stand alongside you. With RPC you know you have: experience, knowledge, and master negotiators, looking after your best interest.

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FINAL REMINDER: DFA Live 8pm Sydney Steve Keen TNL

Join us for a live discussion as I explore the intersection of politics and economics with Professor Steve Keen, who is running in the upcoming election as a Senate Candidate for TNL.

You can ask a question live.

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Inflation Is Hot, Hot, Hot!

The latest data from the ABS reveals that The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2.1 per cent in the March 2022 quarter and 5.1 per cent annually, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

More importantly, non discretionary costs were up 6.6% – things you have to buy. So this underscores the issues households are facing. Expect more pressures ahead, and upcoming RBA rate hikes.

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My Two Cents Worth On The Upcoming Budget!

Josh Frydenberg’s March 29 budget — his fourth as Treasurer — is expected to reveal a big deficit for 2022-23. In December, it was estimated it would be just under $99 billion, but the updated figure is expected to have tumbled by tens of billions of dollars. That said, we still have a structural deficit of close to $1 trillion dollars, and the costs of that debt will rise, as interest rates rise, so that’s a problem. And the structural deficit will continue, that’s to large spending on programmes like NDIS, Centrelink Payments, Medicare, and Defence.

And although the current year deficit will fall from $99 billion as predicted, it is worth remembering that to date the Government has promised to spend some additional $70 billion over a number of years on a range of programmes, some with frankly dodgy motivations (some might think pork-barrelling was a better term).

There will be some short-term relief, to assist with the cost-of living pressures, which according to recent surveys are driving household confidence lower. But the whole exercise is political.

The Government will of course go on talking about the $250 billion savings households are sitting on, thanks to COVID and Government payments over the past couple of years, but as I have shown before this is not equally spread across the population and taking in general terms about “household balance sheets are in good shape” belays the truth that averages mask, and many households are really up against it as costs of living rise, and with the prospect of higher interest rates ahead.

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What’s On The Credit Cards Really Counts! With Steve Mickenbecker

After falls in credit card balances, the worm is turning, and so I discuss the types of cards and their users, with Steve Mickenbecker from Canstar. There are a number of traps for the unwary, which enables banks to improved their profit, but at the cost of their customers. And we recommend one of the most powerful toll available for debt management!

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.

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