James Thompson

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987 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 18 Aug

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The Money Café with Alan Kohler · AI's Double Life · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

Um I we'll let him talk to it more, but it's uh sort of a you know matched

I must admit, having having read a little bit more about it in the AFR this week, uh it it it's you sort of think how matched

debilitating i i i it would be sort of n not only knowing this is cu coming but not being able to do much about it. matched

It's um matched

Yeah, absolutely. matched

Yeah, no, it's uh it's it's quite inspirational in in in a in a way, actually. matched

Yeah, it's an interesting idea. matched

I mean uh matched

I I don't know if you saw last week, Alan, but uh Commonwealth Bank had their results uh pretty sort of pretty good, but everyone's worried about the housing market. matched

And Matt Common put it into perspective. matched

And he can uh a and you know, there's s some good bits of perspective I thought. matched

So for you know, for the average Australian household, their house matched

uh i is fifty seven percent of their assets. matched

So price falls do matter, Philip. matched

Um I take your point about how many people actually suffer, but everybody suffers when they think their um their their major, major asset, more than half of their their household asset base is is declining. matched

So I think that has there is some wealth effect there that we need to be matched

Weary of, but common also had, you know, the important bit of context. matched

House prices are up seventy percent in six six years. matched

You know, we so far we've seen falls of two point five percent uh around that. matched

Even if we get falls of twenty percent, we're only back to two thousand and twenty three levels. matched

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