James Thompson
speaker
6,026 appearances
19 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
James Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 19 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 5.
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You know, no big deal.
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We've all said for ages that house prices are too high.
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You know, knocking a bit off the top there is not the worst thing.
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But there is this shock value to people's personal sentiment, their personal confidence, how they see their personal balance sheet.
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You know, I'm starting to think
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think more about that, that that threat of a big shock to housing might feed on itself a little bit and the impact might be bigger than we think or economists think or the government thinks.
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I mean you can see the political pressure rising.
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Yeah.
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know if people were thinking the opposite way as the house price went up though, do you?
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So but that's the thing about confidence.
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It is a tricky thing.
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Anthony, I wanted to ask you a question from one of our listeners, David Bronwell in Victoria.
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And he asks, is any democratic government going to be able to stop debt to GDP ratios getting inexorably higher?
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And I reckon the word democratic is doing a bit of heavy lifting for David there.
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Well there's one way to do it, David.
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You just inflate the debt away.
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Let it rip.
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You let inflation run high, which is what Japan's been doing.
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That's why their numbers have come down.
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But that hurts everybody else in lots of different ways.
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