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Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of Rigged: How networks of powerful mates rip off everyday Australians via their favourite podcast app.

Chapters will be released weekly over the coming months.

A physical copy or ebook can be bought here.

Rigged was originally published in 2017 under the title Game of Mates, but was …

Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of Rigged: How networks of powerful mates rip off everyday Australians via their favourite podcast app.

Chapters will be released weekly over the coming months.

A physical copy or ebook can be bought here.

Rigged was originally published in 2017 under the title Game of Mates, but was …

Why does the Australia Human Rights Commission think that the proposed misinformation bill is bad news?

In this deep dive we look at what is proposed in the Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill and its strange provisions, such as the specific harms of questioning elections or referenda and questioning the merits of public health measures.

Looks suspiciously like an attempt to rewrite the history of the COVID era and the voice referendum.

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Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of Rigged: How networks of powerful mates rip off everyday Australians via their favourite podcast app.

Chapters will be released weekly over the coming months.

A physical copy or ebook can be bought here.

Rigged was originally published in 2017 under the title Game of Mates, but was …

Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of Rigged: How networks of powerful mates rip off everyday Australians via their favourite podcast app.

Chapters will be released weekly over the coming months.

A physical copy or ebook can be bought here.

Rigged was originally published in 2017 under the title Game of Mates, but was …

If you have an interest in land value taxes and Georgism, you might have come across the acronyms ATCOR - “All taxes come out of rents” - and EBCOR “Excess burdens come out of rents”.

Tim Helm, Research Director at Prosper Australia, helps unpack these concepts and how they can be useful for understanding the economy in the 21st century.

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We step through the wild claims in a marketing campaign by the new superannuation lobby group Super Member’s Council. Find those claims here.

Can you believe that after all the fuss of super and getting people off the age pension, one of the big selling points used by the super lobby is that you can still get the age pension?

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It’s a classic economics joke. President Truman once complained about trained economists: “Whenever I ask their opinion, they say on the one hand, so-and-so; but on the other hand, so-and-so, On the one hand, — but on the other hand. I would like to meet an economist with one hand!“

In this episode, Jonathan pushes Cameron to explain why his recent interviews gave the impression that he thought there was nothing wrong with the housing market. Yet at the same time, he pushes for major public intervention. Which is it!?

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These are the final chapters. Thanks for listening, and thanks for your support.

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Michael Matusik has been a property analyst for decades. Find out his views on where we are in the cycle, what types of housing has a promising future, and more.

Follow Michael’s terrific Matusik Missive Substack here.

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