Jess Irvine buys a shoebox

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It’s pretty awful watching Jess Irvine pretend to care about her generation’s bete noir as she hunted for a property to buy. It’s not that she hasn’t argued for lower house prices from time to time. She has. But she has also consistently argued for higher prices as well via an unshakable faith in the benefits of mass immigration demand pumping.

Today she is cock-a-whoop:

Two years ago, I first wrote of my desire to become a home owner.

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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.