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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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1:00:31
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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May 2026
FET #76: Moses Sternstein on the housing shortage myth, demographics, and debt
Moses Sterstein runs the terrific Random Walk substack.
May 31
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Cameron Murray
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Pricing property rights. Or, how to do sensible value capture rather than giving away public property for free
Prosper Australia released a report last week explaining how and why to price development rights.
May 24
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Cameron Murray
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FET #75: Inheritance taxes seem fair, but policing them seems unfair. Why?
This week, regular co-host Jonathan Gadir is back to discuss inheritance taxes.
May 17
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Cameron Murray
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28:08
Why do these housing charts look like a banana?
How economics makes sense of the banana-shaped patterns in our world
May 10
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Cameron Murray
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Billionaire Industrial Policy
When governments fund decades-long loss-making ventures that expand the economy’s production capabilities, we call it industrial policy. When a…
May 3
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Cameron Murray
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April 2026
Three housing charts that will make you smarter
Don’t forget about the upcoming Land & Housing Economics Workshop I am hosting in Brisbane in June.
Apr 26
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Cameron Murray
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How to get a decent public return from Australia's gas resources—A 25% export tax? Or something else?
I explain how a scaled variable royalty does the job of a super-profits tax while avoiding the accounting trickery in order to share risk and get a…
Apr 19
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Cameron Murray
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