The Big Australian Short returns

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From Adam Creighton comes the return of the Big Australian Short:

The hedge fund consultant who made national headlines for his “big short” housing report has attacked regulators for acting too late to cool the “bubble”, claiming they ignored their own warning signs and were hostile to suggestions property was too expensive.

Jonathan Tepper, the Rhodes scholar who in February last year warned that Australia had “one of the biggest” bubbles in history, also warned that the banking ­system was “unstable” and that Australians were living in “fantasy­land” about the impact of slowing construction on the economy.

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About the author
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.