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Digital Finance Analytics (DFA) Blog
We discuss the latest finance and digital business news, with a distinctively Australian flavour
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The Inconvenient Truth About The Wages Price Index “Good News”
Australia’s annual wage growth remained elevated last quarter, underscoring a tight labor market and persistently weak productivity and suggesting inf...
DFA Live Q&A HD Replay: Time To Stop The Economic Shadow Boxing: With Leith van Onselen
This is an edit of a live stream where we dived into the economic maelstrom which is Australia, with Chief Economist Leith van Onselen, co-founder of...
Its Edwin’s Monday Evening Property Rant!
From underquoting to AML, and from asbestos contamination to energy policy, we cover it all on this weeks rant with our property insider Edwin Almeida...
Gazumping and Underquoting City…
Now as the AFR reported fines for underquoting in NSW will be increased by five times as the state government cracks down on real estate agents’ use o...
The Bulls Are Getting Airsick, As Reality Bites!
This is our weekly market update, where we start in the US, cross to Europe and Asia and end in Australia, covering commodities and crypto along the w...
Australia’s Housing Costs Go Ballistic: With Tarric Brooker
In this week’s Friday evening chat, journalist Tarric Brooker and I dive into the contentious issues surrounding housing costs in Australia. The lates...
Investor Loans Go Boom!
One of the worst decisions the ABS made was to reduce the reporting of new lending trends from monthly to quarterly, delaying of course any reactions...
DFA Live Q&A HD Replay: Can Households Balance Their Books? – Insights Into Family Finances …
Today we dive into the latest analysis from our Household Surveys with a focus on household cash flows, and where financial pressure, as measured by r...
Its Edwin’s Monday Evening Property Rant!
Another week, more stupidity across property, as Edwin and I look at the latest news and statistics. We cover the question of mortgage fraud, poor qua...
Can Households Balance Their Books? – Insights Into Family Finances …
Today we examine the difference between the scientific “deductive” method we use in our surveys to examine households and their finances in our survey...
Rising Global Volatility Drives Markets Lower On Tech Valuation Concerns
This is our weekly market update, where we start in the US, cross to Europe and Asia and end in Australia covering commodities and crypto along the wa...
Have We Reached Peak Housing Stupidity Yet?
The latest home price data to the end of October revealed further median price rises across the board. Momentum has been building in the rate of housi...
Underquoting Rules….
Hard to believe only now is the main stream media catching up with the real estate agents practice of underquoting, something which Edwin and I have b...
DFA Live Q&A HD Replay: Investing Now: Navigating Peak Uncertainty With Damien Klassen
This is an edit of a live show as we dive into the latest financial markets action with Damien Klassen, Head of Investments at Walk The World Funds an...
The Cash Con Objection Last Chance Saloon …
Well, well, the Australian Treasury has a tiger by the tail now, because their exposure draft of the proposals relating to the use of cash appears to...
Fooled: Markets Claw Through Self-Deception To Uncertain Highs!
This is our weekly market update, where we start in the US, cross to Europe and Asia and end in Australia, covering commodity and Crypto along the way...
Stagflation: Trick Or Treat? With Tarric Brooker…
In the latest chat with journalist Tarric Brooker, we dive into the migration question, in the light of the latest inflation and employment data and l...
Has Australia Lost Its Way Between USA And China?
This is an edit of a recent show I recorded with Adam Stokes on his channel, where we did a deep dive into international trade, Albo’s recent US trip...
SURPRISE! Time To Forget About More Rate Cuts As CPI Jumps?
Australia’s core inflation accelerated beyond expectations last quarter, complicating the Reserve Bank’s path to further policy easing and prompting m...
DFA Live Q&A Replay: Avoiding Traps For First Time Buyers: With Veronica Morgan
Today we dive into the thorny question of First Time Buyers and the recent attempts by Government to stoke the market. With the help of Founder and Pr...
Its Edwin’s Monday Evening Property Rant!
This week Edwin and I delve into scams, price movements along transport hubs, and explain why people are still wanting to get out of Melbourne, even a...
Turning Freedom Down Another Notch!
One of the critical aspects of our freedoms in Australia is to be able to hold our elected representatives and the machinery of Government and its ass...
The Bulls Roar Some More; Despite The Cockroaches Lurking….
Well, October is living up to its status as the most volatile month of the year as markets reach new highs, despite signs cockroaches are hiding in th...
What’s Happening In Ashfield 2131? With Edwin Almeida
I am joined by Edwin Almeida, our property insider as I walk through a 1:1 session on a really interesting and fast changing suburb. http://www.martin...
The Migration Con Gets Another Leg Up!
Housing affordability, whether for those seeking to rent or to purchase, is at peak stupidity, driven directly by Government policy. Leading the charg...
The Empire Strikes Back On The Future Use Of Cash!
Despite all the hype from the Banks, as at August 2025, the total value of Australian banknotes in circulation was a record $104.094 billion. This is...
DFA Live Q&A Replay: What The F… Just Happened In Crypto? With Adam Stokes
This is an edit of our live show as we dive into the latest ructions in crypto with evangelist Adam Stokes. Why is Bitcoin moving as it is, and what a...
Its Edwin’s Monday Evening Property Rant!
This week Edwin and I go to town on the gap between the hype and reality in the market, as underscore the risks which ensure from being misled by the...
The Property Investment Mirage….
There is a long con going on around investment property which few want to discuss. Despite the hype surrounding demand and price rises, analysis of tr...
When Markets Confuse As Things Fall Apart…
This is our weekly market update, where we start in the US, cross to Europe and Asia and end in Australia, covering commodities and crypto along the w...
AI: Bubble Or Transformational (Or Both)?
Today I want to discuss a crisp question: are current AI trends a speculative bubble, or do they represent a lasting change in economic fundamentals?...
The Pain Game: Economic Update October 2025
This is my edit of a monthly show I record with Nuggets News on the latest finance, markets and property news. Things are closing in on peak stupidity...
DFA Live Q&A HD Replay: How Real Households Are Coping With The Property Pickle, Despite The Hype
This is an edit of a live show as we go through our latest analysis, and deep dive on households and their finances. We will have the post code engine...
Its Edwin’s Monday Evening Property Rant!
Some important news in today’s show, as Edwin’s audio is returned to pristine condition (yeh), as we pull apart the latest property news. It seems pro...
The Real Estate Carry Trade Is A “Death Star”: With John Wright
Associate Professor John Wright is back to dive further into the root cause of the property market crisis: carry trades. In his earlier show we discus...
The Banks Have Got The Major Parties By The Throat!
Robbie Barwick, the Research Director at the Australian Citizens Party and I discuss the latest from Estimates, where again it is clear who is pulling...
Spooked!
This is our weekly market update where we start in the US, cross to Europe and Asia and end in Australia, covering commodities and crypto along the wa...
Have We Reached Peak Idiocy Yet? With Tarric Brooker
I caught up with journalist Tarric Brooker to explore the latest stupidity across property, economics and politics. When you look at the data, you mig...
Kiwis Get a 0.5% Rate Cut; As Economy Stalls And Home Prices Fall!
Dr Michael Rehm, a senior lecturer in property at the University of Auckland was quoted in the Guardian recently as saying “Buyers and sellers are sta...
Gold Tops The 4K Mountain; So Where Next?
Gold reached and briefly surpassed $4,000 per ounce in early October 2025 which traded below $2,000 just two years ago, with returns that now outstrip...