Shvets is an interesting thinker and gets paid an awful lot of money to make an awful lot of money for Macquarie. He is Russia born, Australian citizen, but has been based in Hong Kong for decades. MB has shared his stuff before. He sometimes appears on Macrobusiness, and elsewhere. I went to his website … Read more
Just because the last thread was getting a little overly long, this interview of the Hungarian President Vicktor Orban seemed like a good follow on from “Space, community and religion“ Here he is talking about the demographic crisis, pointing out that if it were not for these European wars, mainly to crush nationalism and implement … Read more
This started out as a reply to Lord K’s post here https://www.ezfka.com/2025/02/22/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes/#comment-71078. But since it ended up being an essay and since we need a new post, here it is. We are all pretty upset about the theft of our country by hostile elites, but outrage is just a beginning. You can’t stay outraged. It’s … Read more
Western government, including the USA and Australia have government departments whose role is to audit the performance of the government. This begs a couple of questions: 1. Why did Trump create DOGE rather than give Musk authority over the US Government Accountability Office (USGAO)? I’m not saying that he necessarily was wrong to do so, … Read more
Drew Pavlou posted this and it’s been picked up by onenation: It purports to show an Israeli being told by a muslim nurse in Australia that she is killing jews in Australian hospitals. Given the passing of the hate speech laws, this may have been staged to justify them. It is normal not to trust … Read more
Never really watched the Footy show (at least the Victorian version of it) I don’t know a lot about Sam Newman and have never really listened to him other than as a passing curiosity in terms of whatever news, scandal or outrage he managed to generate through his own public behaviour. However, given the work … Read more
The claim that mass immigration began as part of the ‘populate or perish’ doctrine post WW2 only part of the story and neglects important context. Marc Moncrieff read Arthur Calwell’s memoirs and wrote this review: https://xyz.net.au/2025/01/arthur-calwell-and-his-memoirs-be-just-and-fear-not He quotes: “If Australians have learned one lesson from the Pacific war….it is surely that we cannot continue to … Read more
I have been checking out Kalgoorlie in the data. There are 225 properties for sale and 75 for rent according to realestate.com.au . Growth has been tapering even as Perth continued to go nuts: https://www.yourinvestmentpropertymag.com.au/top-suburbs/wa/6430-kalgoorlie (go to the bottom for links to the other kalgoorlie suburbs) From ABS: https://abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2016/LGA54280 2016 population: 30,059 2021 population: 29,306 … Read more
As promised I have been wanting to put some thoughts to paper for some time on property. I’ve also commented over the past 9 months that I have purchased several regional South Australian investment properties which I think represent excellent value for money and yield quite well, namely being Port Pirie, Whyalla, Port Augusta, and … Read more
Happy New Year to one and all. Best wishes for 2025. This post has been done purely so I don’t have to look or comment to you all beneath a post by that sniveling idiot whose lack of Perspicuity is only matched by his lack of Perspicacity, the strongest dovetail of stupidity. Having nothing much … Read more
(or in 150yo EZ-fkers tradition, will it fizzle out soon?) On a lateral topic, it is noice to see that “blame thy joo/poo/slopoo/aboo/negroo” ran out of steam and only cometh out of its crevices when Dumbo inspires them, then vanish into off-topic. Noice. What can go wrong when every Jake and Jill is given power … Read more
After a record 7th consecutive quarter of GDP per capita going backwards, Chalmers announced the plan at a press conference with the Business Council of Australia and Migration Industry Alliance.