Digital Finance Analytics (DFA) Blog
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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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Beyond Speculation: Is A New Order Approaching?
As Jonathan Shapiro wrote in the AFR this week, financial markets are becoming one big gamble, catalysed by leading global retail brokers leading to a...
Life, The Universe And The Social Media Ban!
This is my edit of a live show recorded with Adam Stokes on his channel, where we dived into the U16 social media ban, and discussed its origins, impl...
Schrodinger’s FED
Powell argued in his post-meeting press conference that the economy right now — with inflation still well above the Fed’s 2% target and the labor mark...
RBA Crushes Households As Bond Vigilantes Ride In!
Yesterdays RBA Monetary Policy Board unanimous decision to hold rates at 3.6% and Michelle Bullocks calling the end to a truncated easing cycle meetin...
DFA Live Q&A HD Replay: Why Essential Services Are Deliberately Being Destroyed: With Robbie Barwick
This is an edit of our latest live show where Robbie Barwick from the Citizens Party joined me to explore the critical policy issues which Australia i...
Its Edwin’s Monday Evening Property Rant!
As we run up to the end of the year, Edwin and I examine the underlying tides which are influencing the property markets across the country. We examin...
The Australian Economic Miracle, Isn’t….
The spin from politicians is that strong jobs growth is a result of their great policies, and the RBA often says they deliberately kept interest rates...
Market High-Wire Act Continues: Just Don’t Look Down!
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...
Burnout Economics Is Why You Feel So Poor! With Tarric Brooker
Tarric Brooker joins me for a review of the week, and the latest data and charts, as Spin Jim tries to explain the Australian economy is so great, whe...
How To Terminate The Housing Crisis: With John Wright
Associate Professor John Wright is back to develop his concept of Carry Trades further as we ask how to solve the housing crisis. This time he uses th...
Latest GDP Shows Burnout Economy In Action!
Today we got the latest data from the ABS on the Australian Economy, via the backward-looking data on GDP to September 2025. As you know I think GDP i...
DFA Live Q&A Replay: Santa Rally? Volatility? Tokenisation? Investing Now With Damien Klassen
This is an edit of a live show where Head of Investments Damien Klassen at Walk The World Funds and Nucleus Wealth delved into current market dynamics...
Its Edwin’s Monday Evening Property Rant!
It’s Edwin’s Birthday, but he still found time to share his latest thoughts on the property market, which it seems is exhibiting some interesting char...
Property Fools Us Again?
This past week marks an important turning point in the raging bull of the Australian property market. So perhaps it’s time to rethink fair value, desp...
Is A Santa Rally Back On The Agenda Now?
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...
Black Friday Sales May End In Grief….
With all the noise over the Black Friday and Cyber Monday we want people to think about whether there are REAL deals out there, or if its simply credi...
Banks’ Home Lending Mobbed By A Wet Lettuce (Again)!
As I have been highlighting, lending for mortgages has been growing way faster than inflation, including for investor borrowers, and this is first lif...
The Economic Chickens Are Coming Home To Roost!
This is my edit of our monthly housing and economic update recorded in conjunction with Nuggets News. In this months edition, I explore the latest dev...
DFA Live Q&A HD Replay: Market Psychology Ups And Downs: With Tony Locantro
This is a edit of a live show where we took a deep to dive into the market psychology which is driving markets, property and gold, with Investment Man...
Property Markets Slide Into Summer?
Could it be that the momentum in the property market is taking an early bath, as we slide into summer? Well, certainly according to the AFR, the dimin...
A Wild Ride To Nowhere As Markets Bite Back!
This is my 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...
Australia’s Titanic Moment Approaches, As Spin Overrides Reality!
Strip back the political spin, and its clear Australia faces a weak economy ahead, based on a rising structural deficit, and falling productivity. The...
DFA Live Q&A HD Replay: A Bull In A China Shop: Ask Robbie Barwick Live!
This is an edit of a special live Q&A show, featuring Robbie Barwick, National Chairman, National Research Director and 2025 Senate Candidate for Vict...
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...