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ASIC ignores reports of mortgage fraud by lenders
by Paul Egan & Philip Soos- Co-Author’s ‘Bubble Economics: Australian Land Speculation 1830 – 2013’ Exuberant household credit growth over the last twenty years has a sinister dimension: the likelihood of widespread predatory lending and bank fraud. Every...
Hoarding Without Consequence – transcription
A transcription of the Renegade Economists interview with Catherine Cashmore, regarding the 7th Speculative Vacancies report. Read the show notes here. Subscribe to the weekly the Renegade Economists radio show, featuring Georgist insights we wish were on the...
Negative Equity – Australia’s Wall of Pain
Recent stress-testing of Australian banks by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority showed they would survive, though their capital would be sorely tested. This analysis did not take into account an important feedback loop: the erasure of the equity of heavily...
Nathan’s Story
My partner and I are 28. We went to an open for inspection of a house we liked and thought we could afford. We turned up just before he closed. There was an older couple there in their 50-60's. The price was 'from $600k+' on the sign in sheet we left with him. On it...
7/10 inner Melbourne Apartments owned by investors – ABC 24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiVxe1C9pKk&list=UUWZize2G7RUNuI56XmgwauQ Catherine Cashmore discusses the 7th Speculative Vacancies report on ABC TV.
Speculative Vacancies report presentation
Innovative Vacant Housing measure - Speculative Vacancies 2013 from Karl Below is Catherine Cashmore's audio presentation for the event - the 7th Speculative Vacancies report. Click through the powerpoint slideshow in time to the mixcloud audio file below....
Australia’s twin economic diseases
Australia has two infections that compromise our economic health. Their remarkably similar symptoms – fever, delirium, impaired judgement - muddy diagnosis and hamper effective treatment. Most are familiar with ‘Dutch disease’, where a resource bounty – in Holland’s...
Livin’ the Dream!
Open Letter to Matthew Guy, Please Explain Why Housing is for Hocking
Dear Matthew, this week we released our 7th Speculative Vacancies report - Empty Investment Homes Ignored, finding 46,836 empty homes in Melbourne. Read the press release. Despite your valiant efforts in bending over backwards to provide extensive land re-zoning both...
Report: Speculative Vacancies 7
Download Catherine Cashmore's investigation into why empty investor homes are ignored in Speculative Vacancies 7. Read past vacancy reports. Related media: Press Release - Empty Investment Homes Hurt Affordability Renegade Economists radio interview with Catherine...
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