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2026

Miss Aussienomics? Try Detrended
I’m now writing regularly over at Detrended.com.

2025

Rail is very expensive in Australia
Before Australia builds yet another airport line, we should learn from existing ones that run mostly empty and cost taxpayers a fortune.
Australia's slow-motion fiscal trainwreck
Australia’s looming fiscal crisis won’t be solved by clever tax reform—it requires institutional constraints on spending that no politician wants to discuss.
JWalking has moved!
JWalking now has its own website, go check it out!
The city where (almost) anything goes, Part 1
I spent a couple of days walking the streets of Tokyo, observing the city’s ‘anything goes’ approach to zoning that lets people build, trade, and experiment in ways Australian cities can’t.