A free lesson in property economics for Bubbles Hockey

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Honestly, the Council of Australian Financial Regulators, which has clearly made a collective decision to talk down property at APRA, RBA, ASIC and Treasury, must be tearing its collective hair out with the Government, from the AFR:

Treasurer Joe Hockey has dismissed concerns about a housing bubble in Sydney and parts of Melbourne, saying the problem was one of supply and market forces would sort it out.

The Treasurer said he saw no need for any more regulation above the current role of APRA that, since late last year, has tried to force banks to limit loans to investment borrowers.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.