Tag Archives: Property Bubble
News That’s Fit To Punt – 25/Apr/2012
Trying To Slip His Peter This Peter Slipper business for the last few days has been a bit of a joke. It’s a scandal for sure, but should he resign? It’s all a bit messy, what with Andrew Wilkie out … Continue reading
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Notes From Japan 02/Apr/2012
Youth Unemployment And The Pension Just quickly, because I’m actually hard up for time at the moment… There’s an article here by Kenichi Ohmae (in Japanese) where he talks about the hidden youth unemployment in Japan. What’s interesting is on … Continue reading
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News That’s Fit To Punt – 19/Mar/2012
The Capital Gains Revenue And The Property Bubble I wrote about the problems of vested interests leading to the disasters in Japan, several times. In Australia we’re at this smug point of history where our government debt ratio to GDP … Continue reading
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Same Shit, Different Day
More On Property Prices As if on cue, there are two articles today in the SMH as if to soothe the mounting anxiety about property prices. Here’s Ian Verrender trying to say that it’s not going to crash dramatically, it’s … Continue reading
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News That’s Fit To Punt – 01/Feb/2012
Citizen Rinehart The richest woman in Australia, Gina Rinehart has set her mind on buying into Fairfax, the company that owns the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Age, amongst other mastheads. The response coming out of the Fairfax stables has … Continue reading
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Dreaming Of Greek Island Villas
Different Spin Just a weird, weird thought for today. Would you move to Greece? I don’t know if you’ve ever looked, but today Mrs. Pleiades showed me a bunch of photos of Real Estate available in Greek Islands. Hey, I’m … Continue reading
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What Housing Shortage?
This Made Me Laugh They’re talking about whether there is a shortage of property or not. This line cracked me up: More than two-thirds of the government’s shortage estimate arises by including people who can’t afford housing, such as the … Continue reading
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Even More From Steve Keen
Makes For Interesting Reading Here’s the latest from Steve Keen, sent in by Pleiades. So is the chopping of The Block a sign that the days of ever-rising house prices are over? Not if you listen to Christopher Joye (Property’s … Continue reading
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Did We Really Survive?
Or Did We Simply Get It Put Off? Today is a triple barrel sort of entry about things to do with the GFC that have been bugging me. Well, Pleiades sent me a link that started me on a trail … Continue reading
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Sydenham Price Surge
There’s A Reason Those Houses Got Demolished The weird thing to read today is that houses in Sydenham are rising in price. Several kilometres down Unwins Bridge Road from St Peters is this small suburb that was made smaller in … Continue reading
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