Why did 4Corners cut the population angle?

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Unfortunately for 4Corners, I know pretty much everybody that they interviewed for their housing bubble busting expose last night and one complaint that has come back from my discussions with more than one is that despite considerable time being dedicated to discussion of the role of population growth in the formation of the bubble, it has all ended up on the cutting room floor.

This confirms MB’s long term suspicion that the ABC has come kind fatwa at large on the population debate.

Time to get over it, ABC. You’re not serving the national interest if you won’t discuss the key issues that affect it.

P.S. This is only the tip of the iceberg of the 4Corners failure. Tomorrow comes whole damn thing.

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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.