Greg Canavan, often says that when you see markets rise on bad news, it’s a great sign the bottom is close. Remember the stock market lives in the future, not the present. I remain cautious about this overnight surge in the stock market…
The property market has been a one-way ticket to riches for most Australians. Not even the ferocity of the GFC in 2008 could put a halt to it And it cemented the belief that Aussie house prices only ever went one way — up. But as this amazing chart shows, we’ve been living a distorted reality for far too long…
I have a unique weekend edition for you today.
Earlier in the week, there was a multi-country Skype call.
Last Friday 3.28 million was the most important number. It was a new record for US unemployment claims. Dwarfing the previous high of 695,000 claims back in 1982. The first significant statistical indicator of just how bad this ‘corona’ recession will be…
Has Australia’s day of reckoning come?
We’ve dodged a recession for the past 29 years.
We need to consider what impact the restriction of human movement and economic shutdowns really has. That’s because it’s pretty likely that again in our lifetime, we’ll have to deal with another pandemic. This isn’t the first one we’ve had to deal with.
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