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If unemployment goes up, bears cheer. If it goes down, bears discredit the data. Let's all have a cake and eat it too.

So if everything is so bad, why will rates rise?

If you knew anything about the law, you'll know that the cashed up Chinese can only buy off the plan anyway, which is probably not what your upcoming generation will aspire to buy.

Take a 10% pay cut from their $300m bonus pool, maybe.

Shadow banking. Only makes up around 80% of the lending market in China.

- Stamp duty is a rort to support an outdated government model. Completely no justification why a buyers' tax should be paid when a transaction is made. - Land tax is understandable, because land is a valuable and very limited resource (despite the size of Australia, land is scarce if we...

Abolish states, cut out stamp duty and reduce land tax. Reduce negative gearing benefits. Cap LVR at 80%. Increase GST, reduce corporate and personal taxes. Much healthier market and country.

They're probably more likely to introduce real estate-specific curbs, eg government maximum LVRs etc.

That's a bit deep for me. I guess some people's investment decisions also involve seeking enlightenment by channeling aura across spirits from the netherland also.

So, what investment decisions have you made of late?

I try to leave that to the academics.

Analysing world economics is good. But some people here analyse too much and forget to do one very important thing: make money and make lots of it.