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In this unscripted rant I discuss some of the main questions I think about concerning the Australian economy. Do central banks know what they are doing? Is the property market set for a shake-up? Will migration be powered up again? Where are the growth engines for our strategic future? And where might investment be placed?
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The latest edition of our finance and property news digest with a distinctively Australian flavour.
In today’s show, we look at the latest disappointing new home sales from the US, recent Bitcoin and Tether moves, the declines in Chinese US stock, Labors announcement to keep negative gearing, and the latest from the New Zealand on the impact of low interest rates in a frankly mickey-mouse piece of analysis.
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My latest Friday afternoon chat with Journalist Tarric Brooker.
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I caught up with the Leader of The New Liberals – Victor Kline. https://www.thenewliberals.net.au/why-we-are-different/
We discussed the reason for its creation, and some of its central ideals.
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Following on from ‘Housing: Taming the Elephant in the Economy’ report published last week, by The City Futures team, they have now released the research report that provided part of the basis for that publication.
The new paper ‘Housing and the Economy: Interrogating Australian Experts’ Views’ its an analysis of in-depth interviews with a selected group of 20 respondents from the 87 who kindly participated in last year’s online survey.
This offers a comprehensive grounding in contemporary policy settings of the Australian public policy housing system to promotes in-depth appreciation of contemporary debates including those focused on housing affordability and housing tax reform and to describe the policies and institutions that have shaped Australia’s housing system
Professor Duncan MacLennan from the University of Glasgow led the economic strand of the research. He is an applied economist with interests in cities, neighbourhoods, infrastructure and housing. He is currently Professor of Public Policy at the University of Glasgow, Professor of Strategic Urban Management and Finance at the University of St Andrews and a Professorial Research Fellow in Urban Economics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
His current research is concerned with economic drivers and consequences of metropolitan investment strategies for infrastructure and housing and of the fiscal and spending autonomies in sub-national levels of government.
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The latest edition of our finance and property news digest with a distinctively Australian flavour.
In today’s show we look at the new pressures on renters, how the banks have offered to help borrowers in the current lock down, and the fall out from the inter-generational report. Plus, the latest Government rorts and Facebook’s surge.
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My latest discussion with Journalist Tarric Brooker (@AvidCommentator on Twitter) starts with a look at the fate of First Time Buyers, and explores some of the current data to examine the future economic trends – and when the election might arrive.
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This is an edited version of our latest live Q&A as I discuss the question of how politics and economics will play out ahead with Robbie Barwick from the Citizens Party.
We discussed Australia Post, Cash Bans, Deposit Bail-In, as well as broader issues such as a National Investment Bank, Real Infrastructure Investment and International Relations.
0:00 Start
00:16 Introduction and Welcome
01:21 Robbie Joins
01:40 Australia Post Update
06:40 Need For A Public Bank
10:10 Cash Is Important
16:15 Digital Cash and CBDC
22:54 We Need Choice
25:40 The Privatisation Agenda
38:24 Mortgage Banking At The Cost Off…
42:40 Infrastructure Investment
46:18 Short Term-ism Versus Vision
50:10 The Climate Challenge and Perpetual Growth
57:00 Life-Cycle Energy View
1:11:00 Nuclear?
1:13:40 China, US, Australia Squeeze
1:33:20 Need For Clever Thinking
1:34:00 The Vision Thing
1:41:00 Conclusions and Close
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This is an edited version of our latest live show in which I discuss policy issues with Queensland Senator Gerard Rennick.
CONTENTS
0:00 Start
1:14 Introduction
2:10 Rennick’s Background
7:25 Markets And Capitalism
09:50 Monetary Policy
12:46 Post Office and Regional Services
16:05 Senate Estimates and the RBA
19:20 Mandate of RBA
25:22 New Zealand Monetary Policy
27:50 Accountability Outsourced
31:15 Central Banking Group Think
34:20 RBA, ASIC and APRA
40:10 Lending For Housing Versus For Infrastructure
46:50 Small Business Lending Pressure
50:00 Tax Reform
56:00 Council Of Financial Regulators
1:00:00 The Vision Thing
1:16:30 Housing Affordability and Lending Standards
1:22:06 Higher Education
1:24:25 Measuring The Right Things
1:27:00 Accountability
1:31:00 Close and Sign-Off
We look at the RBA, Central Banks, the economy, QE, and home prices and consider how to get the real economy going.
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The White House is driving a range of policies from climate, tax and foreign relations all of which have potential significant impact on Australia. And on some important issues we seem to be left behind….
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