21 days in, Gottiboff’s “greatest peacetime” boom goes bust

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From Gottiboff come an update on the LNP’s “greatest peacetime” boom:

…Nowhere was this optimism more evident than in the outer suburban land and housing development market, which had collapsed. Many people who had bought land turned their back on contracts when settlement day arrived.

…There is certainly a rise in turnover but a 15 or so per cent rise doesn’t change the game when you are down 80 per cent. Yet underlying demand is there.

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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.