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There were a couple of questions posted earlier today about the future direction of the market. Being a bearish D&G merchant I thought that I'd throw in my opinion. :D I'm assuming that inflation over the long term sits within the RBA's 2-3% target, and wages grow at an average of 3.5%...

Hi Kum Lin Yau. My list of risks were intended as a counter-example to what JIT posted. I don't know if they're likely to happen, but I'd consider them all to be possibilities though I accept that a land tax or reform of negative gearing would be politically very difficult. The UK comes up in...

What if negative gearing is abolished or quarantined against rental income? Or a land tax is introduced? Or the economy turns nasty and wages remain flat for a couple of years whilst inflation eats away at them? (That's been the UK experience.) Or one partner loses their job and can...

On the US versus EU theme there was a very interesting article in Newsweek a few weeks ago: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/04/15/why-europe-will-win.html The US is very good at rapid growth of new ideas into major businesses, but I think that's more a function of start-ups having access to a...

Economists measure property affordability on the ability of the mortgagee to cover the interest costs. I believe that the argument is framed this way because any repayment is a form of savings rather than an outgoing. I'm never entirely convinced by this, and think that measuring...