The latest Housing Assistance report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) showed that “there has been a decline in the proportion of social housing households in Australia, ...

The Market Ear on oil positioning. Oil and the channel Oil has so far put in a double bottom, but note black gold remains trading inside the negative trend channel. We are closing in on the first ...

Resources Minister Madeleine King has warned gas producers they risk damaging their social licence and playing into the hands of the Greens if they fail to provide stable supply and affordable prices ...

The Albanese government is reportedly preparing to reintroduce its stalled Help to Buy shared equity housing bill into parliament next week in a bid to increase pressure on the Greens. The Help to Buy ...

Last year, The Australia Institute released research claiming that the corporate sector was responsible for over two-thirds of Australia’s inflation above the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) target.

The latest stimulus announcement from China looks a lot like the last six or seven announcements. But the iron ore reaction ...

The Market Ear with the latest on positioning. Computers are sellers CTAs in SPX are basically in sell or sell mode. Biggest risk is the downside over the 1 month where CTAs are sellers of $144bn ...

Bloomie is doing its best for Beijing. At 11:12 p.m. in Shenzhen on Sunday, China’s least affordable city eased rules for homebuyers. Less than an hour later, the first batch of prospective customers ...

Australia is rich in coal, gas, and sunlight. Low-cost energy used to be a competitive advantage for the nation. However, through pure incompetence and “net zero” pig-headedness, our policymakers turn ...

There is almost no scenario in which iron ore will be driven higher by fundamentals. There’s too much. The supply chain is chock-o-block. There’s more coming. And Chinese demand will struggle to hold ...

A reader sent me the below meme, which neatly explains why curbing immigration is far more important for housing ...

Australian policymakers have created an even worse way to grow the economy than through high immigration and housing speculation. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has become a literal ...