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

And here's big point is that the the the the problem that we are all suddenly not thinking enough about is the supply one. matched

Productivity in h in housing construction is awful and has been going backwards for thirty years. matched

Uh that's the that's the problem we need to start to solve and matched

Um ha falling house prices that might actually make it harder 'cause it doesn't incentivize it in supply to be brought on. matched

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I I I think there's a you know, there is important context, but Philip does have a point. matched

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That's right. matched

I think the RBA said recently that only one percent of the matched

populations in negative egg equity or one percent of households. matched

So we're we're the the problem's minor at the moment. matched

Let's see where it goes. matched

Uh, David's got a long question about productivity, uh uh around how the labour market fits into the broader productivity matched

Um discussion. matched

Uh, given that that we're suffering from low productivity and the speed limit of the economy is quite low at the moment. matched

Should we be talking about other labor forces like labor mobility? matched

Has it slowed down due to work from home, high government employment or other structural changes? matched

Industrial relations policy, is this limiting labour mobility? matched

Labour mix, are we moving from higher paid manufacturing, mining and white collar jobs to lower paid services jobs? matched

And the N DIS, is there a portion of the economy employed by the NDIS keeping the unemployment rate lower than history? matched

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