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Aussienomics

Justin Pyvis

Justin holds a PhD in economics and has 20+ years of policy and investment experience across Australia, NZ, and Hong Kong. These days he’s often found walking cities (jwalk.ing, trying to understand how they work.

The importance of supply and demand
Housing Migration
It’s a law, for goodness sake! Housing affordability requires addressing both supply and demand, not dismissing basic economic principles that explain how markets clear.
Yes, we still make 'stuff' in Australia
Industrial Policy Productivity
Manufacturing output has grown in absolute terms even as its GDP share declined—Australians have simply allocated resources where returns are higher.
The politicisation of central banking
Monetary Policy New Zealand
From Trump’s attempt to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook to New Zealand’s PM pressuring the RBNZ, political encroachment on central bank independence threatens to undo decades of hard-won credibility.
The housing crisis may not self-correct
Housing Population
Without building more houses, Australia’s deteriorating demographics may even make the housing crisis worse.
The return of state capitalism
Industrial Policy
Governments across the developed world are taking equity stakes in struggling companies, creating the moral hazard and capital misallocation that leads to economic mediocrity.