#alankohler — Public Fediverse posts
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A $3.4b collapse exposes the mess of our housing industry
By Alan KohlerThe collapse of Bathla is a disaster for the national housing supply and affordability project: its now-stalled pipeline of 14,000 apartments represents about 18.5 per cent of new housing stock to be built in NSW this year.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-07/bathla-collapse-affordable-housing-quality-issues/107117958
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A $3.4b collapse exposes the mess of our housing industry
By Alan KohlerThe collapse of Bathla is a disaster for the national housing supply and affordability project: its now-stalled pipeline of 14,000 apartments represents about 18.5 per cent of new housing stock to be built in NSW this year.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-07/bathla-collapse-affordable-housing-quality-issues/107117958
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A $3.4b collapse exposes the mess of our housing industry
By Alan KohlerThe collapse of Bathla is a disaster for the national housing supply and affordability project: its now-stalled pipeline of 14,000 apartments represents about 18.5 per cent of new housing stock to be built in NSW this year.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-07/bathla-collapse-affordable-housing-quality-issues/107117958
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A $3.4b collapse exposes the mess of our housing industry
By Alan KohlerThe collapse of Bathla is a disaster for the national housing supply and affordability project: its now-stalled pipeline of 14,000 apartments represents about 18.5 per cent of new housing stock to be built in NSW this year.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-07/bathla-collapse-affordable-housing-quality-issues/107117958
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A $3.4b collapse exposes the mess of our housing industry
By Alan KohlerThe collapse of Bathla is a disaster for the national housing supply and affordability project: its now-stalled pipeline of 14,000 apartments represents about 18.5 per cent of new housing stock to be built in NSW this year.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-07/bathla-collapse-affordable-housing-quality-issues/107117958
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As rising inequality demands reform, business is 'circling the wagons'
By Alan KohlerBusiness used the collapse of unions to suppress wages and oligopoly power to increase prices. Expecting it now — using AI — to fix declining productivity, rising inequality, generational anger and political polarisation is fanciful.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-31/declining-productivity-bca-unions-ai-future/107095052
#Productivity #CostofLiving #AI #Unions #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #AlanKohler
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As rising inequality demands reform, business is 'circling the wagons'
By Alan KohlerBusiness used the collapse of unions to suppress wages and oligopoly power to increase prices. Expecting it now — using AI — to fix declining productivity, rising inequality, generational anger and political polarisation is fanciful.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-31/declining-productivity-bca-unions-ai-future/107095052
#Productivity #CostofLiving #AI #Unions #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #AlanKohler
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As rising inequality demands reform, business is 'circling the wagons'
By Alan KohlerBusiness used the collapse of unions to suppress wages and oligopoly power to increase prices. Expecting it now — using AI — to fix declining productivity, rising inequality, generational anger and political polarisation is fanciful.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-31/declining-productivity-bca-unions-ai-future/107095052
#Productivity #CostofLiving #AI #Unions #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #AlanKohler
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As rising inequality demands reform, business is 'circling the wagons'
By Alan KohlerBusiness used the collapse of unions to suppress wages and oligopoly power to increase prices. Expecting it now — using AI — to fix declining productivity, rising inequality, generational anger and political polarisation is fanciful.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-31/declining-productivity-bca-unions-ai-future/107095052
#Productivity #CostofLiving #AI #Unions #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #AlanKohler
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As rising inequality demands reform, business is 'circling the wagons'
By Alan KohlerBusiness used the collapse of unions to suppress wages and oligopoly power to increase prices. Expecting it now — using AI — to fix declining productivity, rising inequality, generational anger and political polarisation is fanciful.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-31/declining-productivity-bca-unions-ai-future/107095052
#Productivity #CostofLiving #AI #Unions #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #AlanKohler
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Climate change and corruption are also driving up interest rates
By Alan KohlerTypically, bond rates rise when an economy is doing well and inflation appears to be moving up. But something much deeper and more structural is currently going on.
#Economy #MonetaryPolicy #FinancialMarkets #ClimateChange #AlanKohler
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Climate change and corruption are also driving up interest rates
By Alan KohlerTypically, bond rates rise when an economy is doing well and inflation appears to be moving up. But something much deeper and more structural is currently going on.
#Economy #MonetaryPolicy #FinancialMarkets #ClimateChange #AlanKohler
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Climate change and corruption are also driving up interest rates
By Alan KohlerTypically, bond rates rise when an economy is doing well and inflation appears to be moving up. But something much deeper and more structural is currently going on.
#Economy #MonetaryPolicy #FinancialMarkets #ClimateChange #AlanKohler
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Climate change and corruption are also driving up interest rates
By Alan KohlerTypically, bond rates rise when an economy is doing well and inflation appears to be moving up. But something much deeper and more structural is currently going on.
#Economy #MonetaryPolicy #FinancialMarkets #ClimateChange #AlanKohler
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Climate change and corruption are also driving up interest rates
By Alan KohlerTypically, bond rates rise when an economy is doing well and inflation appears to be moving up. But something much deeper and more structural is currently going on.
#Economy #MonetaryPolicy #FinancialMarkets #ClimateChange #AlanKohler
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AI deepfake scams ‘an emergency in the making’ as ASIC reports rise in false investment endorsements
Scammers are using impersonations of celebrities, politicians and trusted public figures to promote fake investment schemes, with the…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #alankohler #ArtificialIntelligence #asic #AU #Australia #deepfake #fakenews #GinaRinehart #johnlaws #Online #scams #Technology
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/857638/ -
AI deepfake scams ‘an emergency in the making’ as ASIC reports rise in false investment endorsements
Scammers are using impersonations of celebrities, politicians and trusted public figures to promote fake investment schemes, with the…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #alankohler #ArtificialIntelligence #asic #AU #Australia #deepfake #fakenews #GinaRinehart #johnlaws #Online #scams #Technology
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The 30-year policy collision behind Australia's housing crunch
By Alan KohlerHow two sets of policies, housing and migration, compounded on each other over 30 years and created the housing affordability crisis we have today.
#HousingPolicy #MigrationPolicy #HousingConstructionIndustry #AlanKohler
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The 30-year policy collision behind Australia's housing crunch
By Alan KohlerHow two sets of policies, housing and migration, compounded on each other over 30 years and created the housing affordability crisis we have today.
#HousingPolicy #MigrationPolicy #HousingConstructionIndustry #AlanKohler
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The 30-year policy collision behind Australia's housing crunch
By Alan KohlerHow two sets of policies, housing and migration, compounded on each other over 30 years and created the housing affordability crisis we have today.
#HousingPolicy #MigrationPolicy #HousingConstructionIndustry #AlanKohler
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The 30-year policy collision behind Australia's housing crunch
By Alan KohlerHow two sets of policies, housing and migration, compounded on each other over 30 years and created the housing affordability crisis we have today.
#HousingPolicy #MigrationPolicy #HousingConstructionIndustry #AlanKohler
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The 30-year policy collision behind Australia's housing crunch
By Alan KohlerHow two sets of policies, housing and migration, compounded on each other over 30 years and created the housing affordability crisis we have today.
#HousingPolicy #MigrationPolicy #HousingConstructionIndustry #AlanKohler
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High interest rates here to stay, but only one part of house price story
By Alan KohlerWe seem to have flipped from worrying about rising house prices to worrying about falling house prices. Well, some of us have, anyway.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/interest-rates-house-prices-only-part-of-story/107010092
#HousingPolicy #HousingConstructionIndustry #ConstructionandRealEstateIndustry #Economy #EconomicTrendsandIndicators #AlanKohler
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High interest rates here to stay, but only one part of house price story
By Alan KohlerWe seem to have flipped from worrying about rising house prices to worrying about falling house prices. Well, some of us have, anyway.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/interest-rates-house-prices-only-part-of-story/107010092
#HousingPolicy #HousingConstructionIndustry #ConstructionandRealEstateIndustry #Economy #EconomicTrendsandIndicators #AlanKohler
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High interest rates here to stay, but only one part of house price story
By Alan KohlerWe seem to have flipped from worrying about rising house prices to worrying about falling house prices. Well, some of us have, anyway.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/interest-rates-house-prices-only-part-of-story/107010092
#HousingPolicy #HousingConstructionIndustry #ConstructionandRealEstateIndustry #Economy #EconomicTrendsandIndicators #AlanKohler
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High interest rates here to stay, but only one part of house price story
By Alan KohlerWe seem to have flipped from worrying about rising house prices to worrying about falling house prices. Well, some of us have, anyway.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/interest-rates-house-prices-only-part-of-story/107010092
#HousingPolicy #HousingConstructionIndustry #ConstructionandRealEstateIndustry #Economy #EconomicTrendsandIndicators #AlanKohler
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High interest rates here to stay, but only one part of house price story
By Alan KohlerWe seem to have flipped from worrying about rising house prices to worrying about falling house prices. Well, some of us have, anyway.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/interest-rates-house-prices-only-part-of-story/107010092
#HousingPolicy #HousingConstructionIndustry #ConstructionandRealEstateIndustry #Economy #EconomicTrendsandIndicators #AlanKohler
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Totally agree with #alankohler that we should have government run #childcare centres; get rid of the subsidy to pay for it.
How good would it be to have one drop off at your local state school?
https://youtu.be/vU02fiEQlTk?si=DDF8LywVSdscp9vN
Crossposted with @openvibe
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Totally agree with #alankohler that we should have government run #childcare centres; get rid of the subsidy to pay for it.
How good would it be to have one drop off at your local state school?
https://youtu.be/vU02fiEQlTk?si=DDF8LywVSdscp9vN
Crossposted with @openvibe
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Totally agree with #alankohler that we should have government run #childcare centres; get rid of the subsidy to pay for it.
How good would it be to have one drop off at your local state school?
https://youtu.be/vU02fiEQlTk?si=DDF8LywVSdscp9vN
Crossposted with @openvibe
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Totally agree with #alankohler that we should have government run #childcare centres; get rid of the subsidy to pay for it.
How good would it be to have one drop off at your local state school?
https://youtu.be/vU02fiEQlTk?si=DDF8LywVSdscp9vN
Crossposted with @openvibe
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Australia is making humanoid robots in the midst of its AI reckoning
By Alan KohlerAustralia this week made an important step forward in grappling with the AI revolution. Meanwhile, in Melbourne a company is making humanoid robots.
#ScienceandTechnology #ComputerScience #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #Internet #GovernmentandPolitics #InformationandCommunication #InformationTechnologyIndustry #Industry #MobilePhones #Robotics #AlanKohler
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Australia is making humanoid robots in the midst of its AI reckoning
By Alan KohlerAustralia this week made an important step forward in grappling with the AI revolution. Meanwhile, in Melbourne a company is making humanoid robots.
#ScienceandTechnology #ComputerScience #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #Internet #GovernmentandPolitics #InformationandCommunication #InformationTechnologyIndustry #Industry #MobilePhones #Robotics #AlanKohler
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Australia is making humanoid robots in the midst of its AI reckoning
By Alan KohlerAustralia this week made an important step forward in grappling with the AI revolution. Meanwhile, in Melbourne a company is making humanoid robots.
#ScienceandTechnology #ComputerScience #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #Internet #GovernmentandPolitics #InformationandCommunication #InformationTechnologyIndustry #Industry #MobilePhones #Robotics #AlanKohler
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Australia is making humanoid robots in the midst of its AI reckoning
By Alan KohlerAustralia this week made an important step forward in grappling with the AI revolution. Meanwhile, in Melbourne a company is making humanoid robots.
#ScienceandTechnology #ComputerScience #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #Internet #GovernmentandPolitics #InformationandCommunication #InformationTechnologyIndustry #Industry #MobilePhones #Robotics #AlanKohler
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Australia is making humanoid robots in the midst of its AI reckoning
By Alan KohlerAustralia this week made an important step forward in grappling with the AI revolution. Meanwhile, in Melbourne a company is making humanoid robots.
#ScienceandTechnology #ComputerScience #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #Internet #GovernmentandPolitics #InformationandCommunication #InformationTechnologyIndustry #Industry #MobilePhones #Robotics #AlanKohler
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We're back to two competing superpowers and China is pulling ahead
By Alan KohlerWhen it comes to AI, Australia is a spectator at a UFC cage fight between the United States and China, except the spectators are inside the cage with the combatants.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-13/ai-china-america-duelling-superpowers/106907068
#AI #ScienceandTechnology #WorldPolitics #AIEthics #AlanKohler
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We're back to two competing superpowers and China is pulling ahead
By Alan KohlerWhen it comes to AI, Australia is a spectator at a UFC cage fight between the United States and China, except the spectators are inside the cage with the combatants.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-13/ai-china-america-duelling-superpowers/106907068
#AI #ScienceandTechnology #WorldPolitics #AIEthics #AlanKohler
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We're back to two competing superpowers and China is pulling ahead
By Alan KohlerWhen it comes to AI, Australia is a spectator at a UFC cage fight between the United States and China, except the spectators are inside the cage with the combatants.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-13/ai-china-america-duelling-superpowers/106907068
#AI #ScienceandTechnology #WorldPolitics #AIEthics #AlanKohler
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We're back to two competing superpowers and China is pulling ahead
By Alan KohlerWhen it comes to AI, Australia is a spectator at a UFC cage fight between the United States and China, except the spectators are inside the cage with the combatants.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-13/ai-china-america-duelling-superpowers/106907068
#AI #ScienceandTechnology #WorldPolitics #AIEthics #AlanKohler
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We're back to two competing superpowers and China is pulling ahead
By Alan KohlerWhen it comes to AI, Australia is a spectator at a UFC cage fight between the United States and China, except the spectators are inside the cage with the combatants.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-13/ai-china-america-duelling-superpowers/106907068
#AI #ScienceandTechnology #WorldPolitics #AIEthics #AlanKohler
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@ecoscore
That was great! Thanks for the recommendation. Alan Kohler is a national treasure & Justin Wolfers worth listening to; I especially liked his arguments on immigration = innovation (child of 2 immigrants myself) & his positive admiration of Australia. It really is past time to lose, & to stop acting out on that cultural cringe!The frightening thing was his costing of the US Presidency at ~$2b and profitable at that price - since est. that Thump made ~$8b last year (in bribes & corruption, not trades, which are chickenshit by comparison - such a small man). In Australia we need to tighten up the money flow potentials for that to happen here. No one - person or group - should be able to buy a Presidency, PM-ship or Premier-ship.
#AusPol #USPol #economics #JustinWolfers #AlanKohler #immigration #innovation #immigrationIsInnovation #AustraliaLoseThatChip #costOfPresidency #corruption #bribery
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@ecoscore
That was great! Thanks for the recommendation. Alan Kohler is a national treasure & Justin Wolfers worth listening to; I especially liked his arguments on immigration = innovation (child of 2 immigrants myself) & his positive admiration of Australia. It really is past time to lose, & to stop acting out on that cultural cringe!The frightening thing was his costing of the US Presidency at ~$2b and profitable at that price - since est. that Thump made ~$8b last year (in bribes & corruption, not trades, which are chickenshit by comparison - such a small man). In Australia we need to tighten up the money flow potentials for that to happen here. No one - person or group - should be able to buy a Presidency, PM-ship or Premier-ship.
#AusPol #USPol #economics #JustinWolfers #AlanKohler #immigration #innovation #immigrationIsInnovation #AustraliaLoseThatChip #costOfPresidency #corruption #bribery
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@ecoscore
That was great! Thanks for the recommendation. Alan Kohler is a national treasure & Justin Wolfers worth listening to; I especially liked his arguments on immigration = innovation (child of 2 immigrants myself) & his positive admiration of Australia. It really is past time to lose, & to stop acting out on that cultural cringe!The frightening thing was his costing of the US Presidency at ~$2b and profitable at that price - since est. that Thump made ~$8b last year (in bribes & corruption, not trades, which are chickenshit by comparison - such a small man). In Australia we need to tighten up the money flow potentials for that to happen here. No one - person or group - should be able to buy a Presidency, PM-ship or Premier-ship.
#AusPol #USPol #economics #JustinWolfers #AlanKohler #immigration #innovation #immigrationIsInnovation #AustraliaLoseThatChip #costOfPresidency #corruption #bribery
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@ecoscore
That was great! Thanks for the recommendation. Alan Kohler is a national treasure & Justin Wolfers worth listening to; I especially liked his arguments on immigration = innovation (child of 2 immigrants myself) & his positive admiration of Australia. It really is past time to lose, & to stop acting out on that cultural cringe!The frightening thing was his costing of the US Presidency at ~$2b and profitable at that price - since est. that Thump made ~$8b last year (in bribes & corruption, not trades, which are chickenshit by comparison - such a small man). In Australia we need to tighten up the money flow potentials for that to happen here. No one - person or group - should be able to buy a Presidency, PM-ship or Premier-ship.
#AusPol #USPol #economics #JustinWolfers #AlanKohler #immigration #innovation #immigrationIsInnovation #AustraliaLoseThatChip #costOfPresidency #corruption #bribery
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@ecoscore
That was great! Thanks for the recommendation. Alan Kohler is a national treasure & Justin Wolfers worth listening to; I especially liked his arguments on immigration = innovation (child of 2 immigrants myself) & his positive admiration of Australia. It really is past time to lose, & to stop acting out on that cultural cringe!The frightening thing was his costing of the US Presidency at ~$2b and profitable at that price - since est. that Thump made ~$8b last year (in bribes & corruption, not trades, which are chickenshit by comparison - such a small man). In Australia we need to tighten up the money flow potentials for that to happen here. No one - person or group - should be able to buy a Presidency, PM-ship or Premier-ship.
#AusPol #USPol #economics #JustinWolfers #AlanKohler #immigration #innovation #immigrationIsInnovation #AustraliaLoseThatChip #costOfPresidency #corruption #bribery
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Really worth watching #JustinWolfers interview with #AlanKohler
Talking sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkUEVl8uamM -
Really worth watching #JustinWolfers interview with #AlanKohler
Talking sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkUEVl8uamM -
Really worth watching #JustinWolfers interview with #AlanKohler
Talking sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkUEVl8uamM -
Really worth watching #JustinWolfers interview with #AlanKohler
Talking sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkUEVl8uamM -
Really worth watching #JustinWolfers interview with #AlanKohler
Talking sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkUEVl8uamM -
"Schrödinger's Straight - both open and closed" 😹 thx #alankohler
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"Schrödinger's Straight - both open and closed" 😹 thx #alankohler
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"Schrödinger's Straight - both open and closed" 😹 thx #alankohler
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"Schrödinger's Straight - both open and closed" 😹 thx #alankohler
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"Schrödinger's Straight - both open and closed" 😹 thx #alankohler
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[edited to correct an grevious error]
I normally pay attention to #AlanKohler but I don’t always agree with him. In this article he tackle #Productivity and #AffordableHousing.
On productivity Kohler links #Wages with #Inflation to explain low productivity. WTF. That’s as close to #NeoLiberalEconomics as you can get and that old horse was put to pasture in 2008 (though it’s hanging around with a bad smell that every politicians and most economist fail to apprehend). Furthermore, you cannot ask workers to work harder for more hours with less pay just to increase productivity. That is not how it’s supposed to work. Capital investments in production processes and tooling are necessary to improve productivity. That is, cutting profits to re-invest — which of course runs counter to #NeoLiberalism and the #TrickleDownEconomic model the #Grifters have been peddling for the last 40 years or so.
When talking about #housing and #construction the only thing Kohler says that makes sence is that the only way to beat the current economic set up is to build housing that does not require private capital investment (because that requires a 6% pa return which goes to feed the crazy spiraling house prices, aka the #SpeculativeRealEstate markets). To do this, public funds must be used to build houses which requires #TaxReform to fund properly from federal revenues. There are other ways to do this of course. Like Community not-for-profit housing, as done in parts of Europe, through verious public funding models and favouring tax regimes. But when Kohler ties Immigration to housing shortages, he cuts corners and cherry picks. For example, immigrant families are generally bigger than Australia’s average of 2.57 per household (Source: ABS.gov.au), my family certainly was. Yet Kohler use the 2.5 adult per household figure to calculate the immigration demand on housing without differentiating between #NetImmigration and overall immigration numbers (wich include seasonal workers, international students, working holiday backpackers, ect.). This kind of data (mis)use goes some ways to discredit the validity of Kohler’s proposition and diminish the strength of his argument.
You can read the article here for yourself, but it does point out that even a well regarded economic analyst is prone to tailor their words to reflect their political and econmic hobby horses. Read it by all means, but don’t swallow anything until you’ve chewed the cud for a time. We are thinking beings, put your innate #CriticalThinkingSkills to good use in whatever you read (especially these days). Even when missing information and knowledge, think about what you hear/read/see before it goes to a change/shore up your opinion. Work in progress as always.
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AUSTRALIA'S ENERGY CONUNDRUM: KOHLER SPARKS DEBATE ON GAS EXPORTS
Alan Kohler questions Australia's push for gas exports, citing a lack of domestic energy self-sufficiency. Who is affected by this policy?
#AustraliaEnergy, #GasExports, #AlanKohler, #EnergyPolicy, #DomesticSupply
https://newsletter.tf/australia-gas-exports-kohler-energy-self-sufficiency/
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Veteran journalist Alan Kohler highlights a key issue: Australia exports gas but struggles with its own energy supply. This is a long-term problem.
#AustraliaEnergy, #GasExports, #AlanKohler, #EnergyPolicy, #DomesticSupply
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/?p=10110 Oil markets can’t bank on deal maker Donald Trump in the Middle East #AlanKohler #GlobalEconomy #Iran #MiddleEastWar #OilMarkets #PersianGulf #USIsraelWarOnIran