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Sydney and Melbourne workshops: Land and Housing Economics for Professionals
Two new workshop dates for Melbourne (10-11th Nov) and Sydney (17-18th Nov).
18 hrs ago
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Cameron Murray
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What is landbanking and why does it happen?
The market ensures that tomorrow's homes are built tomorrow, not today
Aug 16
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Cameron Murray
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The ageing "crisis" has not and will not happen
People simply assume an older population means more economic dependants. But the data shows falling economic dependency despite rising age dependency.
Aug 9
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Cameron Murray
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Housing supply is not new housing production
We should use the term housing supply only to mean supply, not the many other things we use it for.
Aug 2
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Cameron Murray
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July 2026
Aziz Sunderji makes housing Great Again
Plus, I explain one more time how the mainstream view on the 'housing crisis' is wrong
Jul 27
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Cameron Murray
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Aziz Sunderji
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1:40:18
Home prices don't follow costs. Costs follow prices.
Developers respond to market prices by choosing different densities and higher-quality projects with different costs. That's why there is no such think…
Jul 19
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Cameron Murray
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Why change-of-use feasibility is not the same as commercial feasibility
Housing development feasibility is a confusing term that we use to mean two things, so let's create two terms with those exact two meanings
Jul 12
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Cameron Murray
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FET #78: Reddit finance discovers superannuation's failures, plus Reddit responses and a note on One Nation
Regular co-host Jonathan Gadir encounters a heated debate on the AusFinance subreddit about the merits of Australia’s superannuation system, something…
Jul 5
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Cameron Murray
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June 2026
Productivity Commission given two months to solve housing supply, again.
Australia’s latest housing inquiry is repeating a debate we’ve had for more than a century
Jun 28
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Cameron Murray
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Tim Helm
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The Marginal Cost Controversy and its missing solution
The most famous economic minds never recognised the nested nature of economic margins. This has led to many confusions.
Jun 21
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Cameron Murray
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FET #77: What's the modern monetary theory (MMT) view on inflation and the interest burden of public debt?
Friend of the show Mike Fellman joins me to chat about all things macroeconomic.
Jun 14
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Cameron Murray
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Where do I send the guy with the gun? That's the question to ask to help think clearly about taxes and cut through the nonsense
Post-budget, there has been a lot of fuss in Australia’s media about taxes.
Jun 7
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Cameron Murray
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