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Reflections on FET in 2024 and what comes next?

We're at the TAX BREAKS stage of the PROPERTY CYCLE

The FIVE ECONOMIC FORCES of housing markets

Economics is the weapon of choice when it comes to trophy hunting and conservation

Ageing STRETCHES all parts of life

Audiobook: Rigged (Ch 11 - Other mates)

High-rise apartments are BAD FOR RETIREMENT and BUILD-TO-RENT apartments will become POPULAR in Australia without new tax breaks

Audiobook: Rigged (Ch 10 - Myths)

FET #47: Should you leave Australia? The economics of lifestyle arbitrage

Are royalties just RENT CONTROL for mineral and energy resources?

Audiobook: Rigged (Ch 9 - Banking)

FET #46: World-first kids social media ban is unworkable and silly

Is Antarctica the new Wild West of cowboy property claims?

Audiobook: Rigged (Ch 8 - Burning Money)

FET #45: Why the Aussie construction sector is defying predictions with Rob Sobyra

Lost Decade economy trophy passes from Japan to Canada

Audiobook: Rigged (Ch 7 - Mining Games)

Economic lessons from Freedom's Forge

Audiobook: Rigged (Ch 6 - Mates)

FET #44: Why bicycle helmet laws are BAD and other violations of Aussie "common sense"

William Baumol's insights into the construction productivity puzzle explain why my old house would not be built the same way today

Audiobook: Rigged (Ch 5- Superannuation)

FET #43: Australia's burnout economy with Tarric Brooker

Australia's gambling mates cost us billions

Audiobook: Rigged (Ch 4- Grey gifts)

Can money TIME TRAVEL to pay for our retirement? Pension bonds reveal the trick that makes many economists believe so

Audiobook: Rigged (Ch 3- Transport game)

FET #42: Will Australia's TRUTH COMMISSION silence me?

What unexpected topics ALWAYS repeat in the newspaper headlines?

Audiobook: Rigged (Ch 2- Property game)

Explainer: Markets efficiently delay building feasible new homes

Audiobook: Rigged

More eyes on Auckland's upzoning experiment

FET #41: Are the Georgist economic concepts of ATCOR and EBCOR useful in 2024?

Ed Glaeser: Harvard's housing huckster

FET #40: Wild things the superannuation lobby will say to protect their gravy train

Have you noticed that we humans have a deep impulse to sacrifice for no reason?

FET #39: Is Cameron just another lazy two-faced economist?

The kooky housing supply filtering debate

Why it makes economic sense to grow water-intensive crops in the desert

Room to build: The zoned capacity question

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch23 + Ch24 + Ch25)

Which cities out-supplied upzoned Auckland?

FET #38: Michael Matusik talks property cycles and the state of our debate

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch21 + Ch22)

Compound interest is not magic

FET #37: Economic facts on housing, childcare, and welfare with Ben Phillips

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch19 + Ch20)

Books

How I changed my mind on nuclear energy

FET #36: Coherent thinking about housing markets with Aziz Sunderji

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch17 + Ch18)

Why are some homes empty?

FET #35: Steven Hail and insights from Modern Monetary Theory

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch15 + Ch16)

A legacy of bad economics from Adam Smith’s Pin Factory

FET #34: UBI, welfare, and economic disruption from AI

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch13 + Ch14)

Can big government mean fewer taxes?

FET #33: Productivity and its measurement

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch11 + Ch12)

Please stop confusing supply and density in housing debates

FET #32: What is Punter's Politics?

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch9 + Ch10)

Ten Fundamental Economic (Mis)understandings

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch7 + Ch8)

Gary Becker's irrational agents still find an equilibrium, and so do property owners

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch5 + Ch6)

Manias and the madness of crowds

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch3 + Ch4)

Oh no, home prices are above marginal cost!

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch1 + Ch2)

What is housing "Policy X"?

A time for reflection: Life, property, adventure

FET #31: Where is the 'abolish superannuation' lobby?

Are Australian supermarkets the "bad boys" of the economy?

FET #30: Tax fallacies

Patient property owners

FET #29: Energy pseudo-market

The United States is still stimulating its economy with Covid-era policy

FET #28: Dangerous housing ideas in the fragile Kiwi ecosystem

Why upzoning has a value

Easter break from the Hijacked Housing debate

What would a 162 year old man make of today's housing debate?

Government. Housing developer.

FET #27: The Great Housing Hijack chat

Academia Libera Mentis: An oasis for learning

Make welfare better with a Universal Basic Income (UBI)

Finding the Money: Can a film about modern monetary theory change our economic debates?

Unpicking concerns about using superannuation for housing and retiring with a mortgage

The Great Housing Hijack

Wellington's Fisher-Price zoning war

Charts

Lower bound problem of hedonic price indexes

Why is land lease housing booming?

Upzoning: Predictions versus reality in California

Australia's dual-income families