Not everyone appears to have quite caught up with the new reality facing Australian property investors.
Steve keen
Henry more suited to a bad Korea move and less scrutiny
The Resources Super Profits Tax, the monstrosity devised by Ken Henry, is certainly not the solution. And yes, pesky economists and commentators will continue to criticise it.
Residential housing market losing its froth
While the federal government does its best to quell the booming mining sector, the other boom area, residential housing, appears to be finally losing its froth.
Dispatches from Steve Keen’s Debt March
Rob Burgess is accompanying economist Steve Keen as he walks to Mount Kosciusko, doing everything in his power to prick the “property bubble” and put the Australian economy back on what he thinks is a sounder footing.
Final word: Keen offers no property market alternative
Steve Keen says it is time for him to withdraw from the media and start doing some technical research on the property market. Business Spectator’s Christopher Joye couldn’t agree more.
Reflections on Cage Match Mk 1
Christopher Joye and Steve Keen go head to head on the Australian residential property market.
Property boom could get ugly for buyers … and the government
The Australian property market has continued its merry march skywards. If the music stops, it will get very ugly for taxpayers and young buyers sucked into purchasing their first property.
There’s nothing more Aussie than calling somewhere else home
The trouble is not in having the independent thinkers or talent but in giving them opportunities here rather than the token support typical of Australian government, writes Michael R. James.
Ask the economists: Rudd’s productivity push
Following Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s call to increase productivity to two per cent by 2050, Crikey surveyed three economists to get their views. Here’s what they had to say, writes Crikey intern Flint Duxfield.
Aussies, it seems, under Mr Market’s intoxicating spell
The ABS, Australian Property Monitors and RP Data are all indicating that Australian residential property prices are nearing or exceeding record levels, spurred by continued use of debt by many buyers to fund the great Australian dream.
Keen: Neoliberalism and economic breakdown
John Howard’s “five great reforms” did much more to cause the current crisis than avert it, writes Steve Keen.
Steve Keen: An invitation to Gerard Henderson
Gerard Henderson personally attacked Associate Professor of Economics Steve Keen in today’s SMH. Here, Steve Keen responds.
