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Rising mortgage rates will help cool housing market Normalising bank funding costs should drive fixed loan rates higher, which will help cool ebullient Australian property at just the right time for regulators. Share Over the years, this column has been the staunchest possible defender of Australia’s prized AAA sovereign credit rating, regularly excoriating Standard & Poor’s for putting it on “negative outlook” ahead of a possible downgrade, only to belatedly normalise the rating years ...

How to prepare for war with China While the wider community is mostly oblivious to the risk of war, there is a very real chance that the Australian homeland could be in the cross-hairs. Share Long-time readers of this column have been hearing about the drum beats of war between China and the US for the best part of a decade. Back in May 2020, Coolabah Capital gave a detailed private seminar to hundreds of our wholesale clients assessing these risks and advised that the probability of major powe...

ASX Update: Market cheers ‘low rates for longer’ SubscribeBe the first with the news that moves the market Shares surged and the dollar dropped after unexpectedly mild inflation data doused fears the Reserve Bank might raise the cash rate ahead of previous guidance. The S&P/ASX 200 jumped more than 20 points after the data drop, boosting cautious early gains to a mid-session tally of 29 points or 0.41 per cent. The dollar dived around three-tenths of a cent to 77.37 US cents. Whats drivin...

All of which is to say that, while we might be experiencing record low inflation, we are not experiencing slow housing price growth. Thus it was rather odd that Christopher Joye in the Financial Review last week would suggest that “contrary to popular myth, there is no housing affordability crisis. Quite the opposite, in fact: housing has not been this affordable in a very long time”. Joye is right to acknowledge the cheap interest (and government inducements) are allowing first homeb...

Winners and losers of an annus horribilis The greatest legacy of COVID-19 may be that it has united a divided liberal-democratic order in recognition of the threat of an autocratic superpower. Share As difficult as 2020’s annus horribilis has been – a year in which we’ve all lost out, one way or another – the winners have been human ingenuity, those who can predict policy endogeneity and, perhaps ultimately, democratic capitalism as a business model relative to the ascendant alternative...