Australian property prices – so far beyond commercial reality
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Aussie government does something right for a change
Imposing fees on foreign property purchases, which will be used to fund more strict monitoring of said purchases, and civil penalties for breaking the now completely unenforced and massively abused laws.
The Property Country of Australia hates the new laws, which is a big stamp of approval. Cautiously optimistic, let’s see where this takes us in 2015 and whether this halts the Sydney bubble.
nVidia engineer gives interview about GTX970
Property severely unaffordable, Sydney median multiple at 10
How is this Campbell Newman guy still in office?
Target the rent seekers – not the workers for tax revenue
From MacroBusiness
Most businesses in Australia would greatly benefit from a tax shift to economic rents with a commensurate reduction in company tax and the abolition of inefficient taxes such as stamp duties and insurance taxes.
Vast sums of money that are currently directed towards rent seeking would be redirected into productive activity, generating employment and diversifying the economy. Boom and bust property cycles would be flattened due to reduced speculation and, as a result, the broader scale ups and downs of the business cycle would be somewhat moderated.
JPM – BP – Bank of England Cartel Exposed
Amazing Cartel triangle between JP Morgan, British Petroleum and the Bank of England.
Bankers gone to jail for every currency rigging operation uncovered in the last year: Still 0
Scumbag government announces it will move to remove GST free threshold on BOXING DAY!
While everyone is busy with the festive season, the dark powers whom are in charge of Australia have unveiled a shocker of a policy…
Already proven to be detrimental for government revenue, in a bid to do nothing other than to protect uncompetitive economic rent seekers, the Abbott government wants to remove the $1000 GST free threshold for importing goods from overseas.
They’ve already ensured Australia is the most unaffordably expensive country to live in, with the world’s biggest housing bubble – despite having the lowest population density of any country on Earth, and now this? What a bunch of corrupt scumbags! They will not stop until they bleed us all dry..
Rupert Murdoch parading that ABC is biased? Hahaha
How bad sitting all day really is
I always say sitting is bad, and here’s the best summary of why that I have ever seen;
University reforms “unfair to students”
From a speech by Professor Stephen Parker…
They emerged as a budget measure, but they won’t save the tax-payer money in any real sense.
A fundamental feature of HECS is that the Government forwards all the money upfront to the University. So if fees go up by more than the cuts, the Commonwealth shells out more from day one. Default will rise. More students will work overseas – legitimately, this is not evasion – and so only through some arcane aspect of accounting standards can this even look as if it is a savings measure.
This isn’t a savings measure: it is ideology in search of a problem.
But it gets worse. Bizarrely there is no guarantee that a single cent of the extra money will go into the student’s course: it could go into research, infrastructure, paying for past follies or current cock-ups. It’s tempting, believe me, I make them too, but it’s wrong.
The internal equity aspect of the policy design is laughable: why should the second poorest quartile of students subsidise the lowest quartile?
Central Banks & IFM – Creating bubbles, causing recessions and redistriburing capital to the rich
Truly the greatest evil.
This is an economics video largely centred around Japan – once the most successful economy in the world, destroyed very deliberately by the Bank of Japan & IMF.
Australia out of the top 10 on the corruption index
For the first time, Australia is not in the top 10 cleanest countries in Transparency International’s corruption perception index. It’s not surprising that Australia has slipped. Barely a day goes by without newspaper reports of corruption – in political parties, trade unions, sports bodies, companies.
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/australias-slide-into-corruption-must-be-stopped-20141204-11zso4.html
With nearly all member of parliament rorting the property market with negative gearing and capital gains exemptions, while keeping the rorts in place and destroying our economy in the process – is it any wonder? Not to mention all the public pork money for infrastructure projects, healthcare and education which is funnelled into private hands – like Tony Abbott’s medical research fund, designed solely to sift taxpayer money to big pharma in the US.
Report on foreign money laundering into Australian property released – will the government act?
The Parliamentary committee on foreign investment into property has released it’s report. It contains many good recommendations, and none really bad ones, which means there’s about a 0% chance it will be implemented by the government – all members of which are enjoying embezzled Chinese money flowing into their property portfolios.
Let’s just see what happens shall we?
Stop the ponzi, don’t buy now!
Curtsey of Prosper Australia.
