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» 18/01/2008 12:57:16 AM Something in this article seems to have inspired an unusually excessive level of angry (al.....
» 17/01/2008 3:31:16 AM Col, Neither I nor anyone else here is daft enough to fall for that whole “rental supply.....
» 16/01/2008 9:39:16 AM Col Rouge Has asked me: 'What qualifies as “productive investments”?' Put simply, a p.....
» 15/01/2008 6:57:28 AM But, I digress. I really dropped in to say that the author of this article couldn’t be m.....
» 15/01/2008 6:48:40 AM Yes Arjay, but it isn't the "the really productive, private enterprise" that th.....
» 14/01/2008 12:13:20 AM continued... In the same presentation the RBA also observed that: “The primary effects .....
» 13/01/2008 11:57:20 PM If it seems like 10 years of hype about the Howard government’s economic ‘success’ has ver.....
» 7/01/2008 4:22:18 AM Yabby, When I said: “there is some irony in the fact that you continually refer to “sav.....
» 7/01/2008 4:12:51 AM Daggett, Having gone a away for a few days I see nothing here has changed much. To beg.....
» 31/12/2007 11:21:11 AM Cacofonix, Off the top of my head (before I read Margot Kingston’s article) In answer t.....
» 31/12/2007 11:11:19 AM Yabby, Once again (& again): ‘Their focus is on the word “investors”, not speculators’ .....
» 30/12/2007 4:44:52 AM True-to-form Yabby, Re. significance of “cheap and easy ]credit” I refer to paragraphs.....
» 30/12/2007 4:24:00 AM Daggett, Re, your enquiry: “I do differ with your apparent view that immigration-drive.....
» 29/12/2007 3:27:39 AM Well, Many thanks to treasury_broadside, not least of all for introducing something new .....
» 28/12/2007 1:11:50 AM Where I live in Sydney there are 19th century terraces and federation era homes that are a.....
» 27/12/2007 6:54:06 PM We have been told that: “There will always be whingers, who blame the world for their pr.....
» 26/12/2007 5:27:07 PM Yab, Re. your previous post Some of us here are concerned with the interests of all Au.....
» 26/12/2007 5:19:29 PM Cheers Daggett. Thanls for the Steve Keen url. I always have time for Prof. Keen. I wasn’.....
» 25/12/2007 9:24:30 AM Wizofaus, As an act of goodwill to all men (& women) –yes all of them. I won’t engage .....
» 24/12/2007 4:53:13 AM Wizofaus, Re, your request “Obviously what I also want to see are figures showing the .....
» 24/12/2007 4:43:39 AM Yabby Re your observation: “Given low prospects for capital gain in all but yuppy subu.....
» 22/12/2007 1:20:40 PM continued… Which reminds me - That old story about how Keating’s “negative-gearing” expe.....
» 22/12/2007 1:15:13 PM Yabbby (responding to Wizofaus) wrote: “The drop in CGT was introduced to compensate for.....
» 21/12/2007 12:29:48 PM (Smith-continued from prev. post) Col Rouge. With regard to negative gearing, the probl.....
» 21/12/2007 12:19:50 PM Yabby, By way of explanation re. my comment about Keating’s negative gearing 'experiment.....
» 20/12/2007 10:49:49 AM Yeah-Right !! - That AFIAK(?) Keating line is a complete lie, a really old, well-worn pro.....
» 20/12/2007 8:01:41 AM Admittedly, when Col Rouge says that: “negative gearing” actually means “buying a future.....
» 19/12/2007 9:04:15 AM Yabby, I fully accept the idea that some people: “have simply traded what they conside.....
» 19/12/2007 5:58:46 AM Daggett, You are perfectly correct in saying that: “there is a political imperative to.....
» 18/12/2007 6:43:42 AM continued from above.. As I said on page 15 “That doesn’t imply that mortgage stress isn’.....
» 18/12/2007 4:04:06 AM Yab again, Yes Graph 9 only refers to owner-occupiers (overall) so: A. As the RBA docu.....
» 17/12/2007 6:05:35 AM Groundhog Day again. OK Yab you said : "If you read the document as whole, clearl.....
» 16/12/2007 6:28:04 AM Well spotted on the debt-servicing ratio, Daggett. Yabby, It doesn’t surprise me to fi.....
» 15/12/2007 5:02:54 AM Yabby, Pericles wasn’t making “a wise observation”. He was attempting satire or at least.....
» 14/12/2007 5:11:45 AM Yabby , - Yes, there are complex “variables”, primarily: Liquidity, Deregulated lending,.....
» 13/12/2007 3:12:55 AM Yabby, I marvel at your ability to pack so much fallacy into a short space & remain so d.....
» 11/12/2007 12:26:24 AM Yabby, An unedited quote: 'House prices have increased at three times the rate of wages.....
» 11/12/2007 12:18:18 AM Just when it looked we were running out of classic misconceptions Country Gal says : “ .....
» 9/12/2007 10:59:38 PM Re. your suggestion that: “when people buy houses these days, they worry about future valu.....
» 9/12/2007 10:40:01 PM How’s that old Col Rouge back there calling folks “psychotic”? Check his post. Far-out. .....
» 8/12/2007 9:25:28 PM Daggett, I am pleased that you think my posts are mostly ‘spot on’. As regards populatio.....
» 8/12/2007 9:06:53 PM Yabby, '"Thirty years ago'"? "A much smaller, simpler house"? Most .....
» 7/12/2007 8:13:12 PM Misconception #2: “Home buyers have more preferential tax treatment than investors, in .....
» 7/12/2007 7:49:44 PM A few more misconceptions back there & the worst 3 are: 1.“First home buyers certainly do.....
» 6/12/2007 5:33:08 PM Another key reason for differentiating between residential property and other investments .....
» 6/12/2007 5:25:30 PM Dropping in a little late here..but one thing that needs to be cleared up re. grputland's .....
» 4/12/2007 6:17:44 PM In case anyone missed it 'grputland' hit the nail on the head with this quote: “Only if .....
» 21/11/2007 2:53:46 AM Well, you can keep hitting yourself on the head with that hammer as long as you like. I'm .....
» 21/11/2007 2:12:14 AM As regards the Great Economic Management Lie I have cut & pasted a Best Of' tribute in hom.....
» 20/11/2007 11:18:05 PM This sort of commentary, steeped as it is in the jargon of the government and business col.....
» 20/11/2007 2:33:29 AM Commuter did well to raise the point about 'Dutch Disease'. The mining industry's impact.....
» 19/11/2007 6:25:37 AM Ed-online, The only obvious thing as far as I can tell is that you have a rhetorical pre.....
» 17/11/2007 6:00:54 AM North Korea is a basket case because it is an isolated nation run by an authoritarian fami.....
» 15/11/2007 12:13:42 AM Perhaps Kennett was taught by Rumsfeld. __________________________________________________.....
» 13/11/2007 11:25:09 PM Andrew, I think that some of us are aware that your article 'was not intended as an atta.....
» 13/11/2007 1:46:29 AM Thanks Andrew. __________________________________________________ Ed-online. One signif.....
» 13/11/2007 12:53:01 AM Leith, Your observations are generally spot-on except that the Howard Govt. had a major.....
» 12/11/2007 12:04:48 AM Coming in ridiculously late here. I’d only just spotted this article and I’m sorry to see .....
» 11/11/2007 3:24:35 PM OK Rhian We seem to be getting our wires crossed a bit here. So in order to correct any .....
» 11/11/2007 7:45:00 AM Good post wizofaus, For the most part I couldn’t agree more. Despite taking on some ente.....
» 10/11/2007 12:15:26 PM Rhian, I must confess that without knowing the details of it I suspected that the ‘dolla.....
» 9/11/2007 1:23:08 AM Ed_online & Rhian You will probably be aware that the WTO already has certain minimum st.....
» 8/11/2007 1:38:09 AM Rhian I do remember Telecom Australia and I also recall that all of improvements that oc.....
» 7/11/2007 3:55:08 AM While finding this article to be agreeable in many ways I have just one line of inquiry re.....
» 7/11/2007 1:39:51 AM No, 'ed_on line' There is no such thing as free trade and it will never be justified unt.....
» 6/11/2007 2:18:31 PM Thanks Lev, I'll keep them coming. - Mr Smith.....
» 6/11/2007 2:03:08 PM The once noble science of economics has become so indelbly polluted by ideology that it ha.....
» 6/11/2007 1:23:57 AM So, will an unreadably turgid book (and irrelevant Cold War relic) be made into an equally.....
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