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.
Monday Musings (1/24)
As a replacement for last Friday’s missing Fodder courtesy of the long weekend, here are a few short takes for you to muse over to start your week, from last week’s happenings that probably didn’t need a full post._
Albo's stage 3 backflip
I’m honestly not sure why Albo was willing to risk so much political capital on a relatively small distributional change just to get his very own Oprah moment. But the whole stage 3 tax cut song and dance is a recurring sideshow to a much, much deeper issue: bracket creep.
When will interest rates start coming down?
I fired up my crystal ball and took a bit of a punt on this one. Well, not really, but if you’re interested in my thinking on when the RBA might start cutting rates (hint: not anytime soon) then you should check it out.
Friday Fodder (2/24)
Here are a few short takes for you to chew over on the weekend, from the week’s happenings that probably didn’t need a full post.
1. Protecting us from ourselves # I was scrolling through the AFR last Sunday, as one does, and noticed the following headline: Labor to overhaul ‘sophisticated investor’ test. Great, I thought – they’re finally going to make it possible for retail investors to buy higher-risk, higher-return products! How wrong I was: