What do you do when Australia’s house prices across our major, eastern seaboard cities make the acquisition of your ‘dream home’ way beyond reach? Why, you go out and self medicate with a touch of retail therapy…preferably in the form of the latest luxury sports car or ‘Toorak taxi’. It’s known as the ‘lipstick phenomena’, […]

Numerous barriers (whether real or perceived to be real by the general public) are apparently proving effective at slowing housing market activity right now. At least this is the case if you believe all the recent media reporting. And let’s face it, many people do. But one of the problems with the type of microanalysis […]

If Johnny jumped off a cliff, would you? It’s a question I’m sure your incredulous parents asked of you, as I was asked of mine, at some stage in your childhood. Of course what’s implied by this absurd interrogation is that you shouldn’t blindly follow the masses (because sometimes the ‘m’ is silent – thanks […]

Most baby boomers are well on their way, if not already well into, their golden years. This is a generation that virtually patented the ideal of ‘greed is good’. But it hasn’t all been financial smooth sailing for every Aussie born between 1946 and 1964. Baby boomers have, arguably more than most, lived through some […]