Leith van Onselen retrospective

Leith is away for a few days so here’s a retrospective of some of his best posts to enjoy. And for those who don’t know, Leith van Onselen writes as the Unconventional Economist. He is an economist that has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs. Leith can also be found on twitter: twitter.com/leithvo.

Australian Housing Valuation Report

How the RBA undervalued housing

How Germany achieved stable & affordable housing

Look to Texas to solve Australian housing supply

The Housing-Retail Link

China’s morbid dependency

China’s summer of discontent

The century of old age

The Demographic timb bomb

Demography is destiny

Retail pain is here to stay

A full list of his posts is available here.

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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.