Some collected observations on the Middle East crisis.
I posted something similar on Facebook a few days back, and thought I might get some useful feedback here.
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The Magical Mystery of The Beatles
Ian Leslie has released what looks to be a fascinating book about the Beatles and more specifically the relationship between Lennon and McCartney. I thought that I too might as well get in on the act and talk about the Beatles story and why it is so remarkable, mysterious and compelling.
Collective governance or tyranny? A chat about our own Magna Carta moment
I try to replicate my more substantial posts on Substack here, but forgot this from a few weeks ago. So I’m now making amends.
When it comes to Magna Carta clause 39 is the one hanging in the foyer.
Immigration cuts and housing prices: what research says (and media should report)
Most credible researchers believe immigration affects house prices. The questions are: how muchs, and at what cost?
Peter Dutton’s Opposition has promised to cut Australian immigration by a quarter “to tackle the housing crisis“.
Keep dental out of Medicare
Many people think that if Medicare works for getting sick, it must also work for dental and anxiety and ADHD and various other types of problems.That isn’t necessarily the case.One big problem for any sort of health intervention is the interested carer. They have an incentive to suggest you need treatment.In the case of classic sickness, overtreatment has been restrained through various mechanisms.
The First Home Guarantee expansion: bad for buyers, good for sellers, yet again
Advice for homebuyers and citizens: housing guarantee schemes deserve your derisive laughter, whoever backs them.
A young woman who I have known for many years messaged me yesterday to ask a question. She and her partner have been saving hard for a year or so, and were planning to save for a few years more. This a pattern that millions of Australians have followed over the past two hundred years, and it has generally worked well.
People get weird about trade: an Australian trade policy history for the Trump era
Donald Trump is trying to slash his nation’s trade deficit. Australians may recognise this task: we tackled it in the late 1980s, failed, and found that it mattered less than we thought.
Hello, US readers! You’ve just started an interesting economic experiment to see whether government policy can change a trade deficit into a trade surplus.
