Fasco-housing complex runs amok

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There’s nothing in its way now. At the AFR comes Generalissimo Josh Recessionberg:

…Treasury estimates that a 10 per cent increase in house prices could result in a corresponding lift to GDP of about half a per cent.

With Australia’s annual population growth continuing to be strong at 1.6 per cent and the government’s record $100 billion 10-year infrastructure pipeline helping to unlock new housing supply and reduce congestion in our cities, the fundamentals of the housing sector are sound.

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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.