Truth Bomb Tuesday: You can’t run from your past. “Cancel culture” is one the more interesting trends to emerge in the past decade or so. Not that I think it’s that new. People have been tossed out of jobs for all sorts of things in the past – being a woman for example! But it […]
Cooling down for Christmas – the economy in pictures
See the world through the eyes of an economist. Housing market slowing into Christmas Corelogic data for November saw house prices growing just 0.1% over the month across the nation. Sydney and Melbourne are slipping backwards, and growth in the other capitals is coming off recent highs. There’s a similar story happening with rental price […]
T-Bomb: This is a sign you are getting old right
Truth Bomb Tuesday: It’s ok to need a little down time. “I just seem to need more down time than I used to. Am I just getting old?” The answer to that is obviously yes, but also yes. As you get older, you need more time to digest the immensity of life. You need more […]
People want cash for Christmas – the economy in pictures
See the world through the eyes of an economist. Homes sales lift… tiny bit Detached home sales picked up again in October. Sales are still at a low level, but over the past two years, the trend seems to be upward… sorta… kinda. For some reason, the gain this month was entirely driven by Victoria. […]
T-Bomb: How I finally got ahead
Truth Bomb Tuesday: I don’t think we have the right handle on what this means. “Slow and steady wins the race.” That’s the moral from the parable from the hare and the tortoise, right? Only, that’s not really the take-away. The turtle didn’t win because it was ‘slow and steady’. The turtle didn’t win. The […]
America is a weird place – the economy in pictures
See the world through the eyes of an economist. America is a weird place With Trump taking the White House, I thought I’d share my favourite charts from Planet America. First up, there was a huge surge in Google Searches for “change my vote.” (100 here means the most ever for that search term.) Too […]
Have we past ‘peak investor’?
What’s driving this fall? Why is the number of property investors in Australia falling? Read the papers and it still feels like property investment is the only game in town, but the truth is, property investors are starting to sell up. It is true that over the past 40-odd years there was an explosion in […]
T-Bomb: the key to unlocking abundance
Truth Bomb Tuesday: Make time for an abundant future Are you able to zoom out right now? I mean, imagine you were an alien that lived for thousands of years. Could you zoom out and hold that perspective? Could you see this moment of time – everything that’s going on in the world and in […]
House prices fall in 3 capitals – the economy in pictures
See the world through the eyes of an economist. House Prices hitting pause Corelogic house price data for October showed a median gain of 0.3% across the nation. Historically, that’s a fairly normal result. However, there’s a wide spread across the capitals, with Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra posting falls. This is reflected in the listings […]
T-Bomb: How I invest in uncertainty
Truth Bomb Tuesday: Don’t wait until you know I caught a quote from the comedian Conan O’Brien I really like the other day: “Nobody knows really what they’re doing. And there are two ways to go with that information. One is to be afraid, and the other is to be liberated, and I choose to […]