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Fresh Economic Thinking

Cameron Murray is famous for questioning sacred cows and conventional wisdoms of both left and right. We chat about Cameron"s latest Twitter battle and then delve into a controversy. Wide-ranging analysis - no topic out of bounds - inequality, regulation, housing, superannuation, lockdowns, tax, war, the meaning of life. www.fresheconomicthinking.com

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4:36

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

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/08/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.comPaid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app.These are the final chapters. Thanks for listening, and thanks for your support. Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

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38:29

FET #38: Michael Matusik talks property cycles and...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/08/01

Michael Matusik has been a property analyst for decades. Find out his views on where we are in the cycle, what types of housing has a promising future, and more. Follow Michael’s terrific Matusik Missive Substack here.______Follow Cameron and Jonathan on X/Twitter. Buy The Great Housing Hijack here.Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other

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4:34

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch21 + Ch22)

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/07/30

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.comPaid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app.Two chapters will be released weekly over the coming months.Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

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48:58

FET #37: Economic facts on housing, childcare, and...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/07/24

Ben is an economist at the Australian National University. He studies many of the big policy questions in Australia, from housing to childcare to welfare and more. We chat about the misunderstandings of our economic situation that are perpetuated by the media, and how reality is more boring and generally positive than portrayed.Find Ben on X/Twitter here.Follow Cameron and Jonathan on X/Twitter. Buy The Great Housing Hijack here.Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.Theme music: Happy Swing by

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4:36

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch19 + Ch20)

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/07/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.comPaid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app.Two chapters will be released weekly over the coming months.Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

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75:48

FET #36: Coherent thinking about housing markets with...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/07/17

How should we think about housing? As an asset, like a bond? If so, how would city planning affect its pricing?Aziz Sunderji writes the excellent Home Economics substack. Follow Aziz on Twitter here. _____Follow Cameron and Jonathan on X/Twitter. Buy The Great Housing Hijack here.Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get

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4:40

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch17 + Ch18)

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/07/16

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.comPaid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app.Two chapters will be released weekly over the coming months.Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

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7:27

Why are some homes empty?

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/07/14

A new report on Speculative Vacancies by Tim Helm, Research Director at Prosper Australia, is out now (full disclosure, I currently do consulting work for Prosper on other projects).Using water meter data for every residential dwelling since 2018, Tim looked at trends in long-term unoccupied (empty) homes on a suburb-by-suburb basis across Melbourne. The concept of a long-term empty home is different to what we call housing vacancy, which typically refers to the number of rental advertisements,

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60:41

FET #35: Steven Hail and insights from Modern...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/07/11

This was a great conversation that covered some big-picture issues about how an incorrect view of money changes our macroeconomic analysis, and also the finer details of monetary operations. Find out more about the Modern Money Lab. And for those following closely, here is the document Steven refers to about the RBA buying Treasury bonds to maintain control of the interest rate. The relevant section:"Under the TAP system there was considerable uncertainty as to whether the Government’s financing

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4:41

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch15 + Ch16)

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/07/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.comPaid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app.Two chapters will be released weekly over the coming months.Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

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31:24

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

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/07/07

Fresh Economic Thinking exists to elevate the quality of economic discussion. This is why I write detailed articles about influential economic ideas—I want to help progress the discipline. Please consider a paid subscription to support these efforts. Like many well-trained economists, I took Adam Smith’s argument about productivity gains being caused by the division of labour at face value. It wasn’t until I read Joan Robinson dismiss the argument in her 1973 textbook An Introduction to Modern

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31:24

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

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/07/03

If the macroeconomy experiences a radical disruption, is a Universal Basic Income (UBI) going to help? How different is that from existing welfare systems? And how likely is a rapid shock from a technology change like Artificial Intelligence (AI) compared to other shocks like we experience during COVID lockdowns?Follow Cameron and Jonathan on X/Twitter. Buy The Great Housing Hijack here.Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons

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8:54

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch13 + Ch14)

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/07/02

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.comPaid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app.Two chapters will be released weekly over the coming months.Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

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26:22

FET #33: Productivity and its measurement

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/06/27

Just about every nation has a local debate about how it is uniquely bad at improving construction productivity. But how do economists use that word and can we really interpret what gets measured in a meaningful way?Follow Cameron and Jonathan on X/Twitter. Buy The Great Housing Hijack here.Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other

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8:52

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch11 + Ch12)

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/06/26

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.comPaid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app.Two chapters will be released weekly over the coming months.Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

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11:36

Please stop confusing supply and density in housing...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/06/23

It is nearly the end of the financial year in Australia. A paid subscription to Fresh Economic Thinking could be a tax-deductible expense for you. Please consider supporting to get access to this and all articles, the audiobook of The Great Housing Hijack, the charts page, and more.A dominant line of thinking in policy-land is that allowing higher housing densities increases the rate at which new housing is produced.Few people express it so precisely, but many believe it to be true. In doing so,

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37:11

FET #32: What is Punter's Politics?

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/06/20

This week Konrad Michalski chats about his foray into the world of political satire— how does he as an outside observer decipher the many stories we tell as we fight over the gains from our economic system. Follow Cameron and Jonathan on X/Twitter. Buy The Great Housing Hijack here.Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get

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8:44

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch9 + Ch10)

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/06/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.comPaid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app.Two chapters will be released weekly over the coming months.Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

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8:45

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch7 + Ch8)

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/06/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.comPaid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app.Two chapters will be released weekly over the coming months.Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

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5:58

Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch5 + Ch6)

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2024/06/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.comPaid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app.Two chapters will be released weekly over the coming months.Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

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