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Property market: Housing boom leveling

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Investing in the property market today *reading trends and choosing an appropriate direction. Thursday, April 25, 2013. The Reserve Bank says home prices are likely to grow slowly, if at all, now that the low-inflation driven boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s has ended. The RBA says the move to inflation targeting in the early 1990s , and resulting lower consumer price rises, meant home buyers could borrow roughly twice as much as before. But given it has actually been quite stable for the past five...

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Property market: property silver lining

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Investing in the property market today *reading trends and choosing an appropriate direction. Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Well, let me put to you a counter argument to the normal rhetoric for property growth. In a down market, inflation is low and GDP is low. When inflation and GDP is low, interest rates are kept low in. An attempt to stimulate the economy. When interest rates are low, one has more cash left over to. Pay down ones principle on their loans. Because the interest portion is less. If you are ...

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Acquiring wealth: May 2010

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The observations and decisions in determining what is wealth and how to achieve it. Wednesday, 26 May 2010. The problem of North Korea. China won't intervene again because it would destablise its own economic prosperity. North Korea has a 1.17 million standing army. 4.7 million in reserve. 3,500 towed artillery. 2,500 multiple rocket launchers. South Korea has 687,000 standing army. 4.5 million in reserve. Plus 28,000 (South Korea) 35,000 (Japan) US troops. 4,000 towed artillery. At the same time, destro...

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Question climate change in school, or how to get expelled | Catallaxy Files

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Speaking truth to power. Blogging as a fine art. My comment hasn’t appeared. The Cat hasn’t covered. Why we do this? Opinions on the cheap. Gittins wants to get off… →. Question climate change in school, or how to get expelled. 10:04 am, February 20, 2014. Last week I received this email from a Cat reader:. I’ve come across an event – teaching climate change in schools – that may need greater attention and inquiry, and that it may be of interest to you. Then yesterday Deadman reported. My 17 y.o....This ...

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Acquiring wealth: January 2010

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The observations and decisions in determining what is wealth and how to achieve it. Sunday, 31 January 2010. Buying Australian investment property without using new cash. Aeon bank in Hong Kong will lend 7 times salary at 0.19% monthly interest rate (i.e. 4.21% APR), unsecured. This is equivalent to A$112K. Australian banks will lend maximum 70%. On an apartment in a high density block ( 30 apartments in the block). Therefore, you will require 34.5%. To have a neutral gearing (expenses = income):. There ...

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Acquiring wealth: April 2010

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The observations and decisions in determining what is wealth and how to achieve it. Monday, 26 April 2010. Making money using the Internet. The main goal with the Internet is to bring in site traffic. This traffic is monetised through running advertisements (e.g. Google Ads). A metaphor would be a heavily used road (your web site), and the passing traffic is monetised through the use of signboards/billboards (Google Ads). Therefore, the guidelines are:. 1) A website that is free to use by visitors. Also,...

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Links for 8 July 2014 | We are all dead.

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We are all dead. A discussion of Australian political and economic issues and ideas, by Matt Cowgill. Laquo; Should we ‘depoliticise’ tax policy? A response to Judith Sloan on monopsony. Links for 8 July 2014. July 8, 2014. I’m currently taking another break from Twitter, so I thought I’d post some links on here to interesting things I’ve read recently:. Jeff Borland’s Labour Market Snapshots. Are always worth a read. The July edition has a quick look at the rise of earnings inequality in Australia.

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What is absolute poverty? | We are all dead.

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We are all dead. A discussion of Australian political and economic issues and ideas, by Matt Cowgill. Laquo; What do we get for $6000 each on social security? Should we ‘depoliticise’ tax policy? What is absolute poverty? June 16, 2014. The latest HILDA report. You might have seen coverage of the latest HILDA statistical report on the front of The Australian today. The article includes a version of this chart from the HILDA report, which shows two different measures of the poverty rate in Australia:.