

Richard Yetsenga 叶森 🇦🇺 🇭🇰 🇹🇭 🇳🇱
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@ricyet
ANZ Bank Chief Economist. CEDA Board. GAICD. Asia. Antipodes. China. Climate. Diversity. India. Technology. Human economics.



Underrated factor in why English-speaking countries have especially bad housing crises is their common law systems (adversarial and litigious) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere. Makes Anglo planning/permitting systems especially vulnerable to NIMBYs and other objections.


.@ANZ_AU Chief Economist is clear: supply alone won’t fix housing affordability. Costs rise, speculation follows, and new builds can stall. The real answer is a broader policy mix: supply, demand, productivity and better use of existing homes.



This is incredible. Worth two minutes.






Canada's housing prices continued to fall in June. Over the past decade, however, Canada and NZ had significant housing price booms, including during the pandemic. Little surprise then that they have been among the weakest since then.

Reminder that oil prices are bimodal, and we are likely in "supply destruction pricing" territory currently:







Is it madness or is it "Brexit-by-CBAM"? Locating Trumpian economics in policy space. Another day, another effort to make sense of "manly tariffs". Chartbook newsletter #369 just dropped. tinyurl.com/bdzh9d8w

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