Australia’s developer bubble is beginning to pop

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The MSM demolition of poor old John McGrath continues. From The Australian:

Despite having run up an alleged gambling debt to bookmaker William Hill of more than $16m, a source familiar with the company’s ­accounts said McGrath performed better than most punters. Ordinary punters lose about 10 per cent of their turnover. The source said although McGrath wagered large amounts of money, he lost at about half that rate over the life of his account.

The teetotalling McGrath, the son of an alcoholic publican who shared his name, has around him a coterie of advisers and friends worthy of a man who made his fortune selling Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

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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.