Australia’s preposterous tech bubble

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I’ll just leave this here for your consumption:

Check out the forward earnings P/Es for Australian health and wider tech versus the US.

That must be because we’re the global powerhouse of tech innovation:

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Admittedly these same firms are some of the nation’s best offshore earners so will benefit from the falling AUD so that’s some insurance.

But, jeez, is the AUD going to halve? No. This is a bubble built on sheer desperation. There is nothing else to buy in our profitless economy, dominated as it is by rent-ravaging miners and dying banks.

Whoops.

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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.