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Macrobusiness desperate for advertising revenue - now inserting pop-up ads into plagiarised text!
Topic Started: 15 Oct 2014, 10:52 PM (4,235 Views)
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Shadow
24 Oct 2014, 02:51 PM
Macrobusiness are now appending this text to the bottom of their non-paywall blogs...

'Did you enjoy or find that post useful? If so, pull your weight and sign up for the full subscription. It is the revenue generated by those who pay for content that make this site possible. Click to take the trial and sign up!'

So there you go. Everyone needs to 'pull their weight' and pay money to David Llewellyn-Smith and Leith van Onselen so that they may continue to copy/paste, regurgitate and rehash other peoples blogs on a daily basis.
All of us inside the Macrobusiness paywall are familiar with the notion of catching falling knives!

We have observed investor behaviour in the USA, flippers picking up RE in distress!

However, I don’t believe the US has completed its correction – it was arrested by massive and expensive government intervention, which offers a pause but not a resolution and the debt mountain remains!

Look instead to Japan which has been falling for 25 years!

Or the Australian experience where the 1888-91 boom and bust was not rinsed out of the system until the 1960s!

By which I mean prices did not match the peak in real terms until Sydney 1962!

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And Melbourne 1958!

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We have developed a narrative – supported by observed results – that says land prices rise faster than incomes!

This idea contains within it its own demise!

Residential RE is a consumption asset!

The baby boomers enjoyed simultaneous consumption and appreciation!

Given current stratospheric prices, the future cannot repeat this feat!

I rent, which is the closest I can get to an actual short of residential RE!

My very existence creates this rent, which I could hedge by buying to occupy!

But it does not follow this hedge would itself be profitable, particularly after recent big rises!

Don't Buy Now!
Edited by Don't Buy Now, 24 Oct 2014, 03:51 PM.
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Emmanuel
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Shadow
20 Oct 2014, 03:57 PM
Link ads gone as expected.

Looks like David and Leith will need to find some other way to make money.

Here's an idea... get real jobs! Blogging is not a job.
You're so right Mr. Shadow. If these guys want to write their diatribe, they should go away, study the press releases, and get a job at Fairfax. Even if they tried, they couldn't get a job there anyway with all their doom and gloom.
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Veritas
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16 Oct 2014, 02:29 PM
While they do produce the odd bit of original material here and there, their motto could well be "I surf, I copy, I paste". For it's essentially an exercise in copying (or "cross-posting", to use that delightful euphemism) and then reselling, with a few "contextualising comments" thrown in to keep up a semblance of dignity; a sort of fig-leaf to disguise the plunder. But these latest revenue-raising measures are bizarre. The ads have no relevance at all and it's pissed off their readership considerably. It's also cheapened the entire blog. I do wonder about David's judgement sometimes. He seems to have a blind-spot when it comes to his knowing his own customers. Blogs are meant to be a hobby, a part-time pursuit for the love and maybe to supplement one's mainstay ... any money is purely a bonus and not the motivation. Blogs were never meant to be anyone's bread and butter and it's their attempts to squeeze their supper out of it (in lieu of legitimate employment) that has distorted things so.
Blog are meant to be a hobby? Says who?

All these guys are doing is offering a product.

If people want to buy it, they will.

If they don't, they wont.

The market will decide whether Macrobusiness has a future or not.

If you don't like it, don't fucking read it. Or at least be consistent and start some threads slamming Women's Weekly or some other publication you find objectionable.

Bitchy comments made by sociopaths like Shadow are totally irrelevant.

Shadow is so threatened by Macrobusiness that he trolls news website comments sections under the handle Macrobusiness.

Have you got a view on that Doc?
Edited by Veritas, 24 Oct 2014, 04:15 PM.
Property acquisition as a topic was almost a national obsession. You couldn't even call it speculation as the buyers all presumed the price of property could only go up. That’s why we use the word obsession. Ordinary people were buying properties for their young children who had not even left school assuming they would not be able to afford property of their own when they left college- Klaus Regling on Ireland. Sound familiar?

The evidence of nearly 40 cycles in house prices for 17 OECD economies since 1970 shows that real house prices typically give up about 70 per cent of their rise in the subsequent fall, and that these falls occur slowly.
Morgan Kelly:On the Likely Extent of Falls in Irish House Prices, 2007
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Glenn Stevens
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Happy weekend, everybody. Back on Monday.
Edited by Glenn Stevens, 24 Oct 2014, 04:20 PM.
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Emmanuel
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Veritas
24 Oct 2014, 04:14 PM
Blog are meant to be a hobby? Says who?

All these guys are doing is offering a product.

If people want to buy it, they will.

If they don't, they wont.

The market will decide whether Macrobusiness has a future or not.

It all depends it it's market trash or not. People like me and Mr Shadow get our information from real sources, such as AFR, not Macrobusiness.
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Lou Ellen
24 Oct 2014, 03:20 PM
The looming macroprudential measures will stall the property market and threaten to reverse the Sydney investor mortgage rocket. In a normal market MP measures would only slow things down but given the mania is Sydney a sharp reversal cannot be ruled out. More broadly, a soft landing for property ala 2003 is more difficult to engineer given the broader economy is weighed down by the capex cliff and income shock, the reverse of what transpired after 2003. I therefore expect further rate cuts as well as a falling dollar will be needed to keep property aloft.

Given these risks then flow into my view that the global cycle is maturing and likely to end in the next two years, likely resulting in the loss of Australia’s AAA rating and bank downgrades, I conclude that we’re near enough to the peak of the property cycle right now and the downside risks on the other side are larger than usual.
Are you really that stupid that you think The RBA will do ANYTHING anything at all to stall the property market.

You have not been listening they are banking on a recovering property market to offset the wind down from the investment boom.

Is this the kind of crazy nonsense they sell over at MB? They should be ashamed of themselves.

You come on over her to APF - Lou Ellen an get away from those shysters, who use young people to push their unsavoury political agendas.
Definition of a doom and gloomer from 1993
The last camp is made up of the doom-and-gloomers. Their slogan is "it's the end of the world as we know it". Right now they are convinced that debt is the evil responsible for all our economic woes and must be eliminated at all cost. Many doom-and-gloomers believe that unprecedented debt levels mean that we are on the precipice of a worse crisis than the Great Depression. The doom-and-gloomers hang on the latest series of negative economic data.
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skamy
24 Oct 2014, 04:19 PM
Are you really that stupid that you think The RBA will do ANYTHING anything at all to stall the property market.

You have not been listening they are banking on a recovering property market to offset the wind down from the investment boom.

Is this the kind of crazy nonsense they sell over at MB? They should be ashamed of themselves.

You come on over her to APF - Lou Ellen an get away from those shysters, who use young people to push their unsavoury political agendas.
Way to go Skamy. I wonder if we could sabotage that trash they call Macrobusiness. Nobody reads it anyway, except a bunch of burnt out losers.
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Don't Buy Now
24 Oct 2014, 03:50 PM
Look instead to Japan which has been falling for 25 years!
David, you and I might be dead in 25 years for all we know.

I agree much of melbourne is overpriced, but what are you going to do now?

Apartments in some areas might be cheap soon, at least that's something.

Look at the bright side. You only really need 16sqm of floor space and a laptop to make a total arse of yourself online.
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Veritas
24 Oct 2014, 04:14 PM
Blog are meant to be a hobby? Says who?

All these guys are doing is offering a product.

If people want to buy it, they will.

If they don't, they wont.

The market will decide whether Macrobusiness has a future or not.

If you don't like it, don't fucking read it. Or at least be consistent and start some threads slamming Women's Weekly or some other publication you find objectionable.

Bitchy comments made by sociopaths like Shadow are totally irrelevant.

Shadow is so threatened by Macrobusiness that he trolls news website comments sections under the handle Macrobusiness.

Have you got a view on that Doc?
Well of course they have every right to sell their product, but never forget that a product is being sold to you.

I'm amazed that DLS points to others and calls them vested interests, but somehow exclude himself from that criticism. Doesn't that concern you?

Any expressed market opinion is my own and is not to be taken as financial advice
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Veritas
24 Oct 2014, 04:14 PM
Blog are meant to be a hobby? Says who?

All these guys are doing is offering a product.

If people want to buy it, they will.

If they don't, they wont.

The market will decide whether Macrobusiness has a future or not.

If you don't like it, don't fucking read it. Or at least be consistent and start some threads slamming Women's Weekly or some other publication you find objectionable.

Bitchy comments made by sociopaths like Shadow are totally irrelevant.

Shadow is so threatened by Macrobusiness that he trolls news website comments sections under the handle Macrobusiness.

Have you got a view on that Doc?
Yep aint it a laugh!

Macrobusiness haters drawing more attention to their despised enemy!


Emmanuel
24 Oct 2014, 04:21 PM
Way to go Skamy. I wonder if we could sabotage that trash they call Macrobusiness. Nobody reads it anyway, except a bunch of burnt out losers.
Who's sock is this?
skamy
24 Oct 2014, 04:19 PM
Are you really that stupid that you think The RBA will do ANYTHING anything at all to stall the property market.

You have not been listening they are banking on a recovering property market to offset the wind down from the investment boom.

Is this the kind of crazy nonsense they sell over at MB? They should be ashamed of themselves.

You come on over her to APF - Lou Ellen an get away from those shysters, who use young people to push their unsavoury political agendas.
WTF is this !
Glenn Stevens
24 Oct 2014, 04:18 PM
Happy weekend, everybody. Back on Monday.
Bulls oh bulls what have you produced.....this is low!!!!
Edited by doubleview, 24 Oct 2014, 09:29 PM.
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