Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺

'How AI will affect YOUR job - whether you're a tradie or an office worker - and the ripple effects it will have on the property market and the careers of a generation' My first article for the Daily Mail is now live. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

It's like watching someone who has just started to grasp the most basic concepts of economics thinking they have things all figured out, without truly grasping the knock on effects.

It's amazing what keeping your mouth shut can achieve....

'Rental vacancies in Canada at a five-year high due to slow population growth and cost of living' insauga.com/rental-vacanci…

When I was a teenager I realised that relative to history I was living in an anomaly, a non-feudal society. I had absolutely no conception of how swiftly things would revert in that direction after things going pretty much one way in my parents lifetime to that point.

'Mother stages sit-in at Royal Children's Hospital to get appointment for son' abc.net.au/news/2025-07-2…

I was recently talking to a MAGA hat wearing mate. There is still hope Trump's commentary is theatre and he will be steered in the right direction. But they are increasingly of the view that what he is coming out with is often idiotic and contradictory.

For $3.1m you too could own a potentially haunted 2 bedroom house on 473m2 in Brisbane......

My kids are never going to have to pay me a cent. For me and mine desirable multi-generational living should also be an option if need be.

'Nearly half of Kiwis applying for Australian citizenship born elsewhere' stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360769…

Auction results - Sold To Listed - Sydney 45.4% (45.9% last week) - Melbourne 56.1% (55.5%) Sydney stabilizing lower than its recent highs. Melbourne performing much more strongly, arguably on the back of the increased investor demand I previously mentioned #AvidAuctions

If we weren't growing our population so much faster than the supply of desirable family homes, there wouldn't be so much pressure to downsize. Just something for older people to think about next time they go and vote.

Considering Boomers got married young and in significantly larger numbers proportionally, the greater divorce rate is understandable. Figures are both for the U.S.

Britain is a joke, but to be fair that is nothing new...

Sometimes when I'm driving down the same pothole filled road that somehow coincides with never ending roadworks, I think to myself our taxes pay for this. Things keep getting worse, yet we get charged more, it feels like managed decline.

In 2025 Australia, this is economic growth.

'NSW real estate agents threaten renters with fees if they are not home for tradespeople – but legally they don’t have to be' theguardian.com/australia-news…

Obvious outcome is obvious.

This data from the Financial Times is absolutely damning. Across the Anglosphere home ownership rates have collapsed for young people, while they have risen significantly for older people. Meanwhile, more and more young people no longer believe hard work brings success.

Sometimes I find myself wondering, at what point has one's nation become so clearly run contrary to one's most basic interests, that it is no longer your country anymore.

For productivity growth you need business investment and capital deepening (aka more infrastructure, factories and means of production per capita). We are going to get neither without dramatically slowing migration to developed world norms and tilting lending away from housing.