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Chris Becker says Macrobusiness has devolved into a pit of trolls and vested interests; Claims he lost $100,000 in time and money moderating their astrotufing on the Macrobusiness blog
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Shadow
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Veritas
4 Dec 2013, 12:10 PM
Shadow is so threatened by Macrobusiness that he trolls the Property observer site under the handle "Macrobusiness".
Me? Troll? I have never been so insulted!
Veritas
4 Dec 2013, 12:01 PM
It wouldn't be free to others if some people weren't paying the money.
Why not? Property Observer is free. APF is free. Both of which have been a lot more accurate in their outlook than Macrobusiness.

There are plenty of sites that can produce decent content without begging for donations. But I'm glad you feel your own donation to the MB bloggers was well spent. While you continue to rent and watch house prices rise, the MB bloggers are using the donation you gave them to help pay off the mortgages on their own homes.

Anyway, what do you think of Chris Becker's comments regarding the $100,000 he wasted moderating all the trolling and astrotufing on MB?
Edited by Shadow, 4 Dec 2013, 12:26 PM.
1. Epic Fail! Steve Keen's Bad Calls and Predictions.
2. Residential property loans regulated by NCCP Act. Banks can't margin call unless borrower defaults.
3. Housing is second highest taxed sector of Australian Economy. Renters subsidised by highly taxed homeowners.
4. Ongoing improvement in housing affordability. Australian household formation faster than population growth since 1960s.
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Veritas
4 Dec 2013, 12:10 PM
Predictions are only one part of it. I like MB and I like it here. Whats wrong with that?

Shadow is so threatened by Macrobusiness that he trolls the Property observer site under the handle "Macrobusiness".

Why?
You could have taken my advice on Property prices, China, Europe, USA, Iron Ore and so on. I have been mostly right or very very close. Plus its free.

You wont though as it is an emotional response to something you do not want to hear.

Trust me I will tell you when house prices will have any meaningful correction. I have never lied or mislead people unlike some bears here. I call the market as I see it unfolding.

The key reason why I am so accurate is I live and breath the industry most days. I speak to real people, businesses, buyers, investors, builders and form my own opinion based on those views and views I have of the overall world economy. It is the time and effort I spend in this industry on the ground that gives me a good insight to its direction.

How else could I get things so right for so long. Luck? Luck is for fools.
http://mike-globaleconomy.blogspot.com.au/
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Mike
4 Dec 2013, 12:25 PM
You could have taken my advice on Property prices, China, Europe, USA, Iron Ore and so on. I have been mostly right or very very close. Plus its free.

You wont though as it is an emotional response to something you do not want to hear.

Trust me I will tell you when house prices will have any meaningful correction. I have never lied or mislead people unlike some bears here. I call the market as I see it unfolding.

The key reason why I am so accurate is I live and breath the industry most days. I speak to real people, businesses, buyers, investors, builders and form my own opinion based on those views and views I have of the overall world economy. It is the time and effort I spend in this industry on the ground that gives me a good insight to its direction.

How else could I get things so right for so long. Luck? Luck is for fools.
:lol

Mike, you must be constantly toppling over with a head that big.
Shadow
4 Dec 2013, 12:21 PM
Me? Troll? I have never been so insulted!

Why not? Property Observer is free. APF is free. Both of which have been a lot more accurate in their outlook than Macrobusiness.

There are plenty of sites that can produce decent content without begging for donations. But I'm glad you feel your own donation to the MB bloggers was well spent. While you continue to rent and watch house prices rise, the MB bloggers are using the donation you gave them to help pay off the mortgages on their own homes.

Anyway, what do you think of Chris Becker's comments regarding the $100,000 he wasted moderating all the trolling and astrotufing on MB?
So you admit that you troll the property observer website under the handle "Macrobusiness"

Why do you do that?
Edited by Veritas, 4 Dec 2013, 12:35 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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Shadow
4 Dec 2013, 12:21 PM
Me? Troll? I have never been so insulted!

Why not? Property Observer is free. APF is free. Both of which have been a lot more accurate in their outlook than Macrobusiness.

There are plenty of sites that can produce decent content without begging for donations. But I'm glad you feel your own donation to the MB bloggers was well spent. While you continue to rent and watch house prices rise, the MB bloggers are using the donation you gave them to help pay off the mortgages on their own homes.

Anyway, what do you think of Chris Becker's comments regarding the $100,000 he wasted moderating all the trolling and astrotufing on MB?
Catweasel say mouzealot have best of both the world.

It get its narrative for a free and anti-narrative it not have a donate.

Therefore, it sit well protected in its cocoon with company of mouse.

Which make a zealotry almost a irrelevant.

So it go the deeper,

And need to know what drive its motivate for the narrative.
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Shadow
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Veritas
4 Dec 2013, 12:34 PM
So you admit that you troll the property observer website under the handle "Macrobusiness"
No, I didn't admit that. You invented that admission.

But what do you think of Chris Becker's comments regarding the $100,000 he wasted moderating all the trolling and astrotufing on MB?
1. Epic Fail! Steve Keen's Bad Calls and Predictions.
2. Residential property loans regulated by NCCP Act. Banks can't margin call unless borrower defaults.
3. Housing is second highest taxed sector of Australian Economy. Renters subsidised by highly taxed homeowners.
4. Ongoing improvement in housing affordability. Australian household formation faster than population growth since 1960s.
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Veritas
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Shadow
4 Dec 2013, 12:40 PM
No, I didn't admit that. You invented that admission.

But what do you think of Chris Becker's comments regarding the $100,000 he wasted moderating all the trolling and astrotufing on MB?
So you don't?

You don't post on the property observer website under the handle "Macrobusiness"?

You deny it?

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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Dr Watson
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Veritas
4 Dec 2013, 12:42 PM
So you don't?

You don't post on the property observer website under the handle "Macrobusiness"?

You deny it?
Silence.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt — Bertrand Russell
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Veritas
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Dr Watson
4 Dec 2013, 02:43 PM
Silence.
Silence because its true.

And its pathetic and sinister.

And he probably gets paid to do it.
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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Dr Watson
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Veritas
4 Dec 2013, 02:51 PM
Silence because its true.

And its pathetic and sinister.

And he probably gets paid to do it.
He or she?
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt — Bertrand Russell
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Veritas
4 Dec 2013, 02:51 PM
Silence because its true.

And its pathetic and sinister.

And he probably gets paid to do it.
Or maybe he went out for lunch :re:
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