[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @AvidCommentator Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺 Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺 posts on X about australia, powell, canada, homes the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1028901576558034944/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX -X% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +44% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +35% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX -XXXX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1028901576558034944/posts_active)  - X Week XXX -XXXX% - X Month XXX +38% - X Months XXXXX +51% - X Year XXXXX +9.90% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1028901576558034944/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.33% - X Month XXXXXX +1.50% - X Months XXXXXX +7.80% - X Year XXXXXX +18% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1028901576558034944/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::1028901576558034944/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) #3860 [countries](/list/countries) XXXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies) #877 [stocks](/list/stocks) XXX% [gaming](/list/gaming) XXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) XXX% **Social topic influence** [australia](/topic/australia) #212, [powell](/topic/powell) #274, [canada](/topic/canada) 2.41%, [homes](/topic/homes) #105, [inflation](/topic/inflation) #157, [mortgage rate](/topic/mortgage-rate) #3, [china](/topic/china) 1.81%, [told](/topic/told) 1.81%, [andor](/topic/andor) 1.2%, [fed](/topic/fed) XXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@bnesgreatmates](/creator/undefined) [@scotthill222](/creator/undefined) [@lavender_emma21](/creator/undefined) [@1444_kris](/creator/undefined) [@mmatvikov](/creator/undefined) [@jaiparker79](/creator/undefined) [@bowtiedstocks](/creator/undefined) [@taxpawspective](/creator/undefined) [@twitai_censor](/creator/undefined) [@thelege2](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@peterleversha](/creator/undefined) [@davex68](/creator/undefined) [@mattsquair](/creator/undefined) [@tw4ter](/creator/undefined) [@danielh16577898](/creator/undefined) [@reecepickens](/creator/undefined) [@ralphbuttigieg](/creator/undefined) [@qa__rocks](/creator/undefined) [@lucyaurorab](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1028901576558034944/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "How exactly can the government maintain even a veneer of caring about our fellow Australians when even their own projections have this issue getting worse until the end of the decade"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1936671240292626508) 2025-06-22 06:22:59 UTC 37.4K followers, 10.1K engagements "'The unexpected Victorian regional towns that jumped in the past year' This is what happens when you tell people to move to the regions. Even a fraction of X% of Sydney or Melbourne's population is enough to wreck regional housing costs"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1943512102909677909) 2025-07-11 03:26:08 UTC 37.4K followers, 10K engagements "@CaroDiRusso Both but more the former than the latter. I would also add that while its not the RBA's responsibility to comment directly on fiscal policy out of hand it can and should make comment when it effects the ability to do its job"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1942743915951784433) 2025-07-09 00:33:38 UTC 37.4K followers, XXX engagements "Just because a political party wins an election it doesn't necessarily mean they have the public's support. It's increasingly a case of their Opposition being utterly awful and/or incompetent. Case in point 👇"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1943927334555595252) 2025-07-12 06:56:07 UTC 37.3K followers, 4342 engagements "'Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools' This just keeps getting worse (new rules announced two days ago)"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1940589838425784443) 2025-07-03 01:54:06 UTC 37.4K followers, 104.1K engagements "I look at these sorts of projections and think would it play out like that. There would be all manner of incentives to have kids and the cost of housing would undertake an endless multi decade crash"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945439921843630351) 2025-07-16 11:06:36 UTC 37.4K followers, 6988 engagements "Sometimes I wonder if this is all theatre to blame the Fed for whatever economic downturn may come. Other times I wonder if he's just a meme Boomer when it comes to interest rates and refuses to listen to reason"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945126736439730292) 2025-07-15 14:22:07 UTC 37.4K followers, 1665 engagements "Net migration into Canada for Q1 2025 is less than 1/3 what it was at this time in 2019. This is what it looks like when a nation actually wants to cut migration not the nonsense we get in Australia"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1943530359716487316) 2025-07-11 04:38:41 UTC 37.3K followers, 6038 engagements "Likely turning millions of Americans into bag holders for toxic overvalued assets that private equity have been playing 'Extend & Pretend' with for years"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945475055548572102) 2025-07-16 13:26:13 UTC 37.4K followers, 2513 engagements ""The uncomfortable truth: no politician wants to pay for spending with cuts & taxes & bond markets are getting nervous." We should have addressed this well over a decade ago but instead younger generations have been handed a s*** show that only gets worse from here"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944710104919773246) 2025-07-14 10:46:34 UTC 37.4K followers, 8117 engagements "For an upcoming article at I went through XX years of Australian mortgage rate cut cycles. Prior to the late 1970s rates were only ever cut by up XXXX% to XXX% in total across the entire cycle"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1940885285266772065) 2025-07-03 21:28:06 UTC 37.4K followers, 2136 engagements "I don't think relaxed is the right response to this. It basically says the budget is stuffed unless we cut spending and/or raise further revenue. Which is a big difference to the "She'll be right mate" narratives we get from both sides of politics"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944659427992510502) 2025-07-14 07:25:12 UTC 37.4K followers, 12K engagements "According to Roy Morgan (ANZ) Australian consumer confidence levels are still below the absolute bottom seen during the Global Financial Crisis"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945292495836864627) 2025-07-16 01:20:47 UTC 37.4K followers, 1619 engagements "Last year 20000 Australians left Australia permanently in net terms. That is 20000 doctors nurses and other truly vital workers before net migration ticks over to X. We could get by with less than a 1/3 of our current intake most of Europe does all day long"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1943886998185685391) 2025-07-12 04:15:50 UTC 37.3K followers, 15.2K engagements "I would love to see an analysis of the impact of rate cuts on the property market but attempts to strip out the impact of government intervention. 2001 and 2008 were both heavily impacted by the government throwing money at the market"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1939913429017665851) 2025-07-01 05:06:17 UTC 37.4K followers, 3246 engagements "@qa__rocks Not the PM he works for who is pumping housing prices through reintroduced tax incentives for investors"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945034855592722495) 2025-07-15 08:17:01 UTC 37.4K followers, XXX engagements "Housing Minister Chris Bishop says NZ has to decouple its economic growth from house price increases "The economic recovery needed to be driven by broad-based productivity gains & not increases in property prices""  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945034029767549378) 2025-07-15 08:13:44 UTC 37.4K followers, 23K engagements "'Canada schools Australia on immigration and housing'"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944630189692211378) 2025-07-14 05:29:01 UTC 37.4K followers, 2990 engagements "'How AI will affect YOUR job - whether you're a tradie or an office worker - and the ripple effects it will have on the property market and the careers of a generation' My first article for the Daily Mail is now live"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944627446848110708) 2025-07-14 05:18:07 UTC 37.4K followers, 16.3K engagements "We either stand with our allies or we don't. If we stand with them we say that we will back them. If we don't then increase defence spending XXX% or more and make a credible go at going it alone. It increasingly appears we can't have it both ways"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944219985649578326) 2025-07-13 02:19:01 UTC 37.4K followers, 19.1K engagements "The median full time American male worker earns no more today in real terms than they did in 1979. Which is nuts considering the loss of low wage factory jobs much greater levels of education and a higher average age of workers"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944578771832676653) 2025-07-14 02:04:42 UTC 37.4K followers, 6244 engagements "The Streisand Effect in full swing. Which begs the question what is being hidden that is so important"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944175406393045442) 2025-07-12 23:21:52 UTC 37.3K followers, 9336 engagements "@bowtiedstocks Canada smashes with growth of 3.2%"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1942145852241490083) 2025-07-07 08:57:09 UTC 37.4K followers, 1847 engagements "Considering we have the most expensive Passports in the world this is pathetic"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1928668223534190946) 2025-05-31 04:21:52 UTC 37.4K followers, 67.3K engagements "I'm often told: "Back in my day we moved out to the sticks to afford a home" Not taking the piss but is there any evidence of that in aggregate net terms of people moving out of metro areas to afford homes say pre-2000"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945335115279949884) 2025-07-16 04:10:08 UTC 37.4K followers, 15.3K engagements "'Reeves to cut financial regulation to support first-time buyers' U.K government to pump housing prices"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945044396484723124) 2025-07-15 08:54:55 UTC 37.4K followers, 1872 engagements "I really wonder sometimes what things are going to look like when the time comes for my kids to meet someone. It's already changed so dramatically in the past decade or so"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944790468002209986) 2025-07-14 16:05:54 UTC 37.4K followers, 1874 engagements "Comparing nations by population growth rate- 2023 (%): Ethiopia: XXXX% Sierra Leone: XXXX% Australia : XXXX% Burkina Faso: XXXX% Venezuela: XXXX% Gabon: XXXX% Who seriously thinks this is a good idea"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1942143919464288561) 2025-07-07 08:49:28 UTC 37.4K followers, 31.9K engagements "There is nothing normal or average about Australia's population growth rate"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1942386727626367457) 2025-07-08 00:54:18 UTC 37.4K followers, 31.1K engagements "@DanielH16577898 GDP number must go up and property market must be supported"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945425323874730362) 2025-07-16 10:08:36 UTC 37.4K followers, XX engagements "The divergence in wholesale electricity prices in Europe is massive. It's little wonder Europe is deindustrializing given these costs. Chart: U.K Financial Times"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944573058813239450) 2025-07-14 01:42:00 UTC 37.4K followers, 2598 engagements "I always find it funny getting lectured about carbon emissions. I drive a 15+ year old car have a XX year old TV & buy a sizable proportion of my clothing from op shops. But somehow I'm still told I'm the problem not the fleet of private jets to Venice for Bezos' wedding"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1940564842219487467) 2025-07-03 00:14:46 UTC 37.4K followers, 25.9K engagements "Good thing I don't drink coffee otherwise I'd never be able to afford a house"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944644300526194691) 2025-07-14 06:25:05 UTC 37.4K followers, 8077 engagements "Australian quarterly per capita (working age population) retail sales growth is once again falling. Considering that this is in nominal terms not inflation adjusted the per capita retail recession appears to have returned"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1940300251099013358) 2025-07-02 06:43:23 UTC 37.4K followers, 11.6K engagements "All of a sudden the sycophant social media posts and YouTube videos on this make sense. Part of me wonders if the firing Powell narrative is there to distract from this utter crap show"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945499773982974192) 2025-07-16 15:04:26 UTC 37.4K followers, 1196 engagements "'Nvidia has permission to sell H20 AI chips in China' T.A.C.O strikes again"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945257810838565242) 2025-07-15 23:02:57 UTC 37.4K followers, 1631 engagements "I don't think these folks realise the potentially catastrophic amount of damage that could be done if the Fed Chairman was some spineless yes man who slashed rates regardless of conditions"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944025069229048257) 2025-07-12 13:24:29 UTC 37.3K followers, 17.8K engagements "These two charts are insane. On the left the 2020-21 Parliamentary Budget Office projections of NDIS spending hitting $36bn in 2031. On the right actual NDIS spending hitting $42bn a year in 2024. Charts: AFR h/t @TwinTurboCe1ica"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944532371933630561) 2025-07-13 23:00:19 UTC 37.4K followers, 43.8K engagements "'Banks say borrowers arent reducing home loan repayments as rates fall' My theory that rate cuts could be a net negative for cash flow to households is looking increasingly likely"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1942031698927202682) 2025-07-07 01:23:32 UTC 37.4K followers, 16.5K engagements "'Jim Chalmers insists Labor can meet target of 1.2m new homes despite department warning'"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944620287087260087) 2025-07-14 04:49:40 UTC 37.4K followers, 28.1K engagements "Year to date (January through May) Australia has seen record high long term and permanent arrivals. Currently they are running at more than 6x the 1990s average"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945298783652237496) 2025-07-16 01:45:46 UTC 37.4K followers, 7885 engagements "'Raise taxes to fix budget Treasury advises Labor in accidentally published advice'"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944523725241774503) 2025-07-13 22:25:58 UTC 37.4K followers, 31.8K engagements "@TheLege2 @unusual_whales @RMConservative I imagine that is what Australia would look like proportionally if not for the Bank of Mum and Dad and govt intervention"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945259142270128577) 2025-07-15 23:08:15 UTC 37.4K followers, XX engagements "An idiotic but possible scenario: - Trump fires Powell - Yes man slashes rates dramatically regardless of inflation - Long end bond market has a meltdown - Debt servicing and mortgage rates skyrocket - Trump presses for huge QE to contain rising yields - QE tanks the USD"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945312084880974107) 2025-07-16 02:38:37 UTC 37.4K followers, 17.2K engagements "In May Australia recorded the highest ever level of net long term and permanent arrivals for that particular month"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944951309473603769) 2025-07-15 02:45:02 UTC 37.4K followers, 82.8K engagements "You can see the migration driven surge and then reversal rather clearly"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945359279722258780) 2025-07-16 05:46:09 UTC 37.4K followers, 2906 engagements "Why do I get the feeling this will be mostly a "Move along nothing to see here moment" followed by Maxwell somehow getting out of prison early and retiring to quiet life in Martha's Vineyard"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944626044713177371) 2025-07-14 05:12:33 UTC 37.4K followers, 4207 engagements "What exactly is the point of a society when the average family is forced to have their children spend more waking hours in the care of the state than with their family"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1943837187877093558) 2025-07-12 00:57:54 UTC 37.3K followers, 13.6K engagements "To state the obvious when you grow the population through a natural increase aka kids govt has X years to prepare schools XX years to prepare roads and the best part of XX years to build housing. When you grow it through migration you need all those things right away"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1942526651088458095) 2025-07-08 10:10:18 UTC 37.4K followers, 32.7K engagements "I realise that Twitter and social media more broadly is just a fraction of the MAGA base but the limited insight it does provide suggests the Epstein list issue could do lasting damage to Trump's support. For several of the MAGA folks I know personally this is a deal breaker"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944349842479935945) 2025-07-13 10:55:01 UTC 37.3K followers, 3329 engagements "Before someone says Trump can't fire Powell I know. But realistically how does that play out. Trump says he is fired with cause Powell says this is nonsense and then it heads to the courts"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945313093086831072) 2025-07-16 02:42:38 UTC 37.4K followers, 2620 engagements "@MausIncognito That sounds mad mate where did you live if you don't mind me asking"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1939598842321911952) 2025-06-30 08:16:14 UTC 37.4K followers, XXX engagements "This could inadvertently turn into such a train wreck particularly when Powell is gone whenever that may be"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944745703638757535) 2025-07-14 13:08:02 UTC 37.4K followers, 1895 engagements "'Reserve Bank (RBA) moves to end debit and credit card surcharges and cap fees for businesses'"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944904316550263232) 2025-07-14 23:38:18 UTC 37.4K followers, 9258 engagements "'Aussie parents stunned over 'ridiculous' rule allowing schools to deny leave for children to go on holidays' We aren't larrikins we are a nanny state"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1942752491088797808) 2025-07-09 01:07:43 UTC 37.4K followers, 18.3K engagements ""Houses in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) now cost the same they did X years ago." Good"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945332524059885879) 2025-07-16 03:59:50 UTC 37.4K followers, 5834 engagements ""The Melbourne Law Schools survey of 2814 workers aged under XX found that X in X were paid $XX an hour or less far less than the minimum wage of $XXXXX while X in X workers reported not being paid superannuation.""  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944915662746607991) 2025-07-15 00:23:23 UTC 37.4K followers, 12.4K engagements "'Great job good education no home: is Australias bloated property market destroying the middle class'"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944408890369876232) 2025-07-13 14:49:39 UTC 37.4K followers, 17.5K engagements "@TerretZox I mean if you have the means 😛 But I can safely say my childhood dog would of fended them off. Once he started biting someone threatening his family he's not letting go unless told by us"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945494311443025929) 2025-07-16 14:42:44 UTC 37.4K followers, XX engagements "Burnout Economics remains hilarious. Albo wants rate cuts but the taxpayer funded jobs printer & government spending is preventing the economy being visibly weak enough to ensure them. Meanwhile market sector hours worked are at Q3 2023 levels"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1942457097133908252) 2025-07-08 05:33:55 UTC 37.4K followers, 8976 engagements "Unfortunately I'm inclined to concur regarding Australia. For the most part I think criticism of the U.S from our perspective is justified. But equally China's attempts at actions to damage our economy are seen as force of nature like the attitude of abused child or partner"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944770538834170241) 2025-07-14 14:46:43 UTC 37.4K followers, 1396 engagements "None of these narratives hold water once you sit down with a calculator and assess them. You could cut spending to the tune of $XXX a week or more and its not going to make a whole lot of difference when the cost of a house has risen by $400k"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944754030716096832) 2025-07-14 13:41:07 UTC 37.4K followers, 5459 engagements "'Theyre Skipping Car Payments; Thats The Final Warning Sign (U.S)'"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945412887520145893) 2025-07-16 09:19:11 UTC 37.4K followers, 3912 engagements "This could be Australia if we made a few changes. Instead our levels of housing stock on market has plummeted even further below the Covid impacted X year average"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944086325109699020) 2025-07-12 17:27:53 UTC 37.3K followers, 4079 engagements "@ReecePickens To win a X vs X no. But to make us such a challenging target that the losses they would endure would degrade their capabilities so significantly as to make us not a worthwhile target yes. Aka the Swedish approach during WW2"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944227457131040903) 2025-07-13 02:48:42 UTC 37.3K followers, XXX engagements "Electricity rationing in an advanced Western economy without some sort of external catalyst an astounding failure"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944329828473458866) 2025-07-13 09:35:29 UTC 37.3K followers, 16.6K engagements "And they have no idea why people hate them"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944693098308903042) 2025-07-14 09:38:59 UTC 37.4K followers, 6262 engagements "@rhainw Considering how completely counterproductive his strategy has been so far relative to his stated goals I'm not ruling out any level of stupid"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945313552778342762) 2025-07-16 02:44:27 UTC 37.4K followers, XX engagements "'Soaring house prices may be locking people into marriages new research shows'"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944900779648934149) 2025-07-14 23:24:15 UTC 37.4K followers, 7116 engagements "@ReggBelafonte @AllenbasterAxel Norway Singapore Denmark and the Gulf States have entered the chat"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945633986321289393) 2025-07-16 23:57:45 UTC 37.4K followers, XX engagements "I'm immensely tired of the government breaking things and then using our money to paper over the cracks they created. It's wasteful and it doesn't fix an issue it just makes its symptoms slightly more bearable for a brief time"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945071514425934076) 2025-07-15 10:42:41 UTC 37.4K followers, 19.6K engagements "'Support payment for renters on Treasury's housing options list' It suppresses the CPI and raises rents what's not to like from a property market focused perspective"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945061770588028966) 2025-07-15 10:03:58 UTC 37.4K followers, 31.8K engagements "So are you all ready for an economic crisis"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945307501668524334) 2025-07-16 02:20:25 UTC 37.4K followers, 16K engagements "Interesting charts and 1985 wasn't exactly a point known for its headline affordability either. Different story if you got Bob Hawke's big first home buyer grant though"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944372540786585932) 2025-07-13 12:25:13 UTC 37.4K followers, 3131 engagements "Knowing how increasingly empty things are for many young men in particular I can see tens of millions of people going down the rabbit hole that is AI companions. Grok (pictured below) is just the beginning things only get more sophisticated and engaging from here"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945037850313187490) 2025-07-15 08:28:55 UTC 37.4K followers, 5532 engagements "I've been playing with a theory for a while now and I'd like some feedback on it from the broader community. What if the Australian government mandated that XX% of new long end bond issuance (10+ year) had to be purchased by super funds What impact would it have on bond yields I asked AI's about this and it and it estimated it would supress yields by XXX to XXX percentage points. I realize its a wacky idea but we live in wacky times and that giant pile of super funds looks pretty damn appealing for fiscally imprudent policymakers"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1938177677921554726) 2025-06-26 10:09:02 UTC 37.4K followers, 9802 engagements "With stockpiling making up the difference for reduced steel production it is keeping prices elevated. According to the latest update I read from BHP back in May shipments will kick off in November and then ramp up over the next X years. So it's not impacting the market just yet"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944674658537861254) 2025-07-14 08:25:43 UTC 37.4K followers, XXX engagements "It's never a move to reduce demand or dramatically increase supply is it. It's always pumping demand for homes higher"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945078602002739367) 2025-07-15 11:10:51 UTC 37.4K followers, 6054 engagements "Honestly it's profoundly unsurprising that childcare often holds hidden crap shows. Even assuming everyone is actually trying to do the right thing the reality is the required staffing ratios are as follows: 0-24 months: X kids to X worker 24-36 months: X kids to X worker 36+ months: XX kids to X worker If anyone has dealt with a teething baby and toddler having a meltdown simultaneously will know how hard it is with two let alone X or X especially with them being set off by other kids in the centre. It's incredibly challenging work and that is if someone is right for the job let alone if"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944050485516030147) 2025-07-12 15:05:29 UTC 37.3K followers, 5062 engagements "The XX Month rolling level of permanent and long term arrivals into Australia have been trending up since January and recently hit the highest level since November. Migration is not going back to pre-Covid norms on these numbers"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945032139742855474) 2025-07-15 08:06:13 UTC 37.4K followers, 34.4K engagements ""China Mineral Resources is furiously using prices below $XXX to build a vast official iron ore stockpile - in line with the same policy for nickel lithium cobalt and copper. I wonder why" An important question for a multitude of reasons"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1944669493126672678) 2025-07-14 08:05:12 UTC 37.4K followers, 7750 engagements
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"How exactly can the government maintain even a veneer of caring about our fellow Australians when even their own projections have this issue getting worse until the end of the decade"
@AvidCommentator on X 2025-06-22 06:22:59 UTC 37.4K followers, 10.1K engagements
"'The unexpected Victorian regional towns that jumped in the past year' This is what happens when you tell people to move to the regions. Even a fraction of X% of Sydney or Melbourne's population is enough to wreck regional housing costs" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-11 03:26:08 UTC 37.4K followers, 10K engagements
"@CaroDiRusso Both but more the former than the latter. I would also add that while its not the RBA's responsibility to comment directly on fiscal policy out of hand it can and should make comment when it effects the ability to do its job" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-09 00:33:38 UTC 37.4K followers, XXX engagements
"Just because a political party wins an election it doesn't necessarily mean they have the public's support. It's increasingly a case of their Opposition being utterly awful and/or incompetent. Case in point 👇" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-12 06:56:07 UTC 37.3K followers, 4342 engagements
"'Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools' This just keeps getting worse (new rules announced two days ago)" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-03 01:54:06 UTC 37.4K followers, 104.1K engagements
"I look at these sorts of projections and think would it play out like that. There would be all manner of incentives to have kids and the cost of housing would undertake an endless multi decade crash" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-16 11:06:36 UTC 37.4K followers, 6988 engagements
"Sometimes I wonder if this is all theatre to blame the Fed for whatever economic downturn may come. Other times I wonder if he's just a meme Boomer when it comes to interest rates and refuses to listen to reason" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-15 14:22:07 UTC 37.4K followers, 1665 engagements
"Net migration into Canada for Q1 2025 is less than 1/3 what it was at this time in 2019. This is what it looks like when a nation actually wants to cut migration not the nonsense we get in Australia" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-11 04:38:41 UTC 37.3K followers, 6038 engagements
"Likely turning millions of Americans into bag holders for toxic overvalued assets that private equity have been playing 'Extend & Pretend' with for years" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-16 13:26:13 UTC 37.4K followers, 2513 engagements
""The uncomfortable truth: no politician wants to pay for spending with cuts & taxes & bond markets are getting nervous." We should have addressed this well over a decade ago but instead younger generations have been handed a s*** show that only gets worse from here" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-14 10:46:34 UTC 37.4K followers, 8117 engagements
"For an upcoming article at I went through XX years of Australian mortgage rate cut cycles. Prior to the late 1970s rates were only ever cut by up XXXX% to XXX% in total across the entire cycle" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-03 21:28:06 UTC 37.4K followers, 2136 engagements
"I don't think relaxed is the right response to this. It basically says the budget is stuffed unless we cut spending and/or raise further revenue. Which is a big difference to the "She'll be right mate" narratives we get from both sides of politics" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-14 07:25:12 UTC 37.4K followers, 12K engagements
"According to Roy Morgan (ANZ) Australian consumer confidence levels are still below the absolute bottom seen during the Global Financial Crisis" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-16 01:20:47 UTC 37.4K followers, 1619 engagements
"Last year 20000 Australians left Australia permanently in net terms. That is 20000 doctors nurses and other truly vital workers before net migration ticks over to X. We could get by with less than a 1/3 of our current intake most of Europe does all day long" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-12 04:15:50 UTC 37.3K followers, 15.2K engagements
"I would love to see an analysis of the impact of rate cuts on the property market but attempts to strip out the impact of government intervention. 2001 and 2008 were both heavily impacted by the government throwing money at the market" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-01 05:06:17 UTC 37.4K followers, 3246 engagements
"@qa__rocks Not the PM he works for who is pumping housing prices through reintroduced tax incentives for investors" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-15 08:17:01 UTC 37.4K followers, XXX engagements
"Housing Minister Chris Bishop says NZ has to decouple its economic growth from house price increases "The economic recovery needed to be driven by broad-based productivity gains & not increases in property prices"" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-15 08:13:44 UTC 37.4K followers, 23K engagements
"'Canada schools Australia on immigration and housing'" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-14 05:29:01 UTC 37.4K followers, 2990 engagements
"'How AI will affect YOUR job - whether you're a tradie or an office worker - and the ripple effects it will have on the property market and the careers of a generation' My first article for the Daily Mail is now live" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-14 05:18:07 UTC 37.4K followers, 16.3K engagements
"We either stand with our allies or we don't. If we stand with them we say that we will back them. If we don't then increase defence spending XXX% or more and make a credible go at going it alone. It increasingly appears we can't have it both ways" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-13 02:19:01 UTC 37.4K followers, 19.1K engagements
"The median full time American male worker earns no more today in real terms than they did in 1979. Which is nuts considering the loss of low wage factory jobs much greater levels of education and a higher average age of workers" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-14 02:04:42 UTC 37.4K followers, 6244 engagements
"The Streisand Effect in full swing. Which begs the question what is being hidden that is so important" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-12 23:21:52 UTC 37.3K followers, 9336 engagements
"@bowtiedstocks Canada smashes with growth of 3.2%" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-07 08:57:09 UTC 37.4K followers, 1847 engagements
"Considering we have the most expensive Passports in the world this is pathetic" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-05-31 04:21:52 UTC 37.4K followers, 67.3K engagements
"I'm often told: "Back in my day we moved out to the sticks to afford a home" Not taking the piss but is there any evidence of that in aggregate net terms of people moving out of metro areas to afford homes say pre-2000" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-16 04:10:08 UTC 37.4K followers, 15.3K engagements
"'Reeves to cut financial regulation to support first-time buyers' U.K government to pump housing prices" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-15 08:54:55 UTC 37.4K followers, 1872 engagements
"I really wonder sometimes what things are going to look like when the time comes for my kids to meet someone. It's already changed so dramatically in the past decade or so" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-14 16:05:54 UTC 37.4K followers, 1874 engagements
"Comparing nations by population growth rate- 2023 (%): Ethiopia: XXXX% Sierra Leone: XXXX% Australia : XXXX% Burkina Faso: XXXX% Venezuela: XXXX% Gabon: XXXX% Who seriously thinks this is a good idea" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-07 08:49:28 UTC 37.4K followers, 31.9K engagements
"There is nothing normal or average about Australia's population growth rate" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-08 00:54:18 UTC 37.4K followers, 31.1K engagements
"@DanielH16577898 GDP number must go up and property market must be supported" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-16 10:08:36 UTC 37.4K followers, XX engagements
"The divergence in wholesale electricity prices in Europe is massive. It's little wonder Europe is deindustrializing given these costs. Chart: U.K Financial Times" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-14 01:42:00 UTC 37.4K followers, 2598 engagements
"I always find it funny getting lectured about carbon emissions. I drive a 15+ year old car have a XX year old TV & buy a sizable proportion of my clothing from op shops. But somehow I'm still told I'm the problem not the fleet of private jets to Venice for Bezos' wedding" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-03 00:14:46 UTC 37.4K followers, 25.9K engagements
"Good thing I don't drink coffee otherwise I'd never be able to afford a house" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-14 06:25:05 UTC 37.4K followers, 8077 engagements
"Australian quarterly per capita (working age population) retail sales growth is once again falling. Considering that this is in nominal terms not inflation adjusted the per capita retail recession appears to have returned" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-02 06:43:23 UTC 37.4K followers, 11.6K engagements
"All of a sudden the sycophant social media posts and YouTube videos on this make sense. Part of me wonders if the firing Powell narrative is there to distract from this utter crap show" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-16 15:04:26 UTC 37.4K followers, 1196 engagements
"'Nvidia has permission to sell H20 AI chips in China' T.A.C.O strikes again" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-15 23:02:57 UTC 37.4K followers, 1631 engagements
"I don't think these folks realise the potentially catastrophic amount of damage that could be done if the Fed Chairman was some spineless yes man who slashed rates regardless of conditions" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-12 13:24:29 UTC 37.3K followers, 17.8K engagements
"These two charts are insane. On the left the 2020-21 Parliamentary Budget Office projections of NDIS spending hitting $36bn in 2031. On the right actual NDIS spending hitting $42bn a year in 2024. Charts: AFR h/t @TwinTurboCe1ica" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-13 23:00:19 UTC 37.4K followers, 43.8K engagements
"'Banks say borrowers arent reducing home loan repayments as rates fall' My theory that rate cuts could be a net negative for cash flow to households is looking increasingly likely" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-07 01:23:32 UTC 37.4K followers, 16.5K engagements
"'Jim Chalmers insists Labor can meet target of 1.2m new homes despite department warning'" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-14 04:49:40 UTC 37.4K followers, 28.1K engagements
"Year to date (January through May) Australia has seen record high long term and permanent arrivals. Currently they are running at more than 6x the 1990s average" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-16 01:45:46 UTC 37.4K followers, 7885 engagements
"'Raise taxes to fix budget Treasury advises Labor in accidentally published advice'" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-13 22:25:58 UTC 37.4K followers, 31.8K engagements
"@TheLege2 @unusual_whales @RMConservative I imagine that is what Australia would look like proportionally if not for the Bank of Mum and Dad and govt intervention" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-15 23:08:15 UTC 37.4K followers, XX engagements
"An idiotic but possible scenario: - Trump fires Powell - Yes man slashes rates dramatically regardless of inflation - Long end bond market has a meltdown - Debt servicing and mortgage rates skyrocket - Trump presses for huge QE to contain rising yields - QE tanks the USD" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-16 02:38:37 UTC 37.4K followers, 17.2K engagements
"In May Australia recorded the highest ever level of net long term and permanent arrivals for that particular month" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-15 02:45:02 UTC 37.4K followers, 82.8K engagements
"You can see the migration driven surge and then reversal rather clearly" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-16 05:46:09 UTC 37.4K followers, 2906 engagements
"Why do I get the feeling this will be mostly a "Move along nothing to see here moment" followed by Maxwell somehow getting out of prison early and retiring to quiet life in Martha's Vineyard" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-14 05:12:33 UTC 37.4K followers, 4207 engagements
"What exactly is the point of a society when the average family is forced to have their children spend more waking hours in the care of the state than with their family" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-12 00:57:54 UTC 37.3K followers, 13.6K engagements
"To state the obvious when you grow the population through a natural increase aka kids govt has X years to prepare schools XX years to prepare roads and the best part of XX years to build housing. When you grow it through migration you need all those things right away" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-08 10:10:18 UTC 37.4K followers, 32.7K engagements
"I realise that Twitter and social media more broadly is just a fraction of the MAGA base but the limited insight it does provide suggests the Epstein list issue could do lasting damage to Trump's support. For several of the MAGA folks I know personally this is a deal breaker" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-13 10:55:01 UTC 37.3K followers, 3329 engagements
"Before someone says Trump can't fire Powell I know. But realistically how does that play out. Trump says he is fired with cause Powell says this is nonsense and then it heads to the courts" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-16 02:42:38 UTC 37.4K followers, 2620 engagements
"@MausIncognito That sounds mad mate where did you live if you don't mind me asking" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-06-30 08:16:14 UTC 37.4K followers, XXX engagements
"This could inadvertently turn into such a train wreck particularly when Powell is gone whenever that may be" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-14 13:08:02 UTC 37.4K followers, 1895 engagements
"'Reserve Bank (RBA) moves to end debit and credit card surcharges and cap fees for businesses'" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-14 23:38:18 UTC 37.4K followers, 9258 engagements
"'Aussie parents stunned over 'ridiculous' rule allowing schools to deny leave for children to go on holidays' We aren't larrikins we are a nanny state" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-09 01:07:43 UTC 37.4K followers, 18.3K engagements
""Houses in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) now cost the same they did X years ago." Good" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-16 03:59:50 UTC 37.4K followers, 5834 engagements
""The Melbourne Law Schools survey of 2814 workers aged under XX found that X in X were paid $XX an hour or less far less than the minimum wage of $XXXXX while X in X workers reported not being paid superannuation."" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-15 00:23:23 UTC 37.4K followers, 12.4K engagements
"'Great job good education no home: is Australias bloated property market destroying the middle class'" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-13 14:49:39 UTC 37.4K followers, 17.5K engagements
"@TerretZox I mean if you have the means 😛 But I can safely say my childhood dog would of fended them off. Once he started biting someone threatening his family he's not letting go unless told by us" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-16 14:42:44 UTC 37.4K followers, XX engagements
"Burnout Economics remains hilarious. Albo wants rate cuts but the taxpayer funded jobs printer & government spending is preventing the economy being visibly weak enough to ensure them. Meanwhile market sector hours worked are at Q3 2023 levels" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-08 05:33:55 UTC 37.4K followers, 8976 engagements
"Unfortunately I'm inclined to concur regarding Australia. For the most part I think criticism of the U.S from our perspective is justified. But equally China's attempts at actions to damage our economy are seen as force of nature like the attitude of abused child or partner" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-14 14:46:43 UTC 37.4K followers, 1396 engagements
"None of these narratives hold water once you sit down with a calculator and assess them. You could cut spending to the tune of $XXX a week or more and its not going to make a whole lot of difference when the cost of a house has risen by $400k" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-14 13:41:07 UTC 37.4K followers, 5459 engagements
"'Theyre Skipping Car Payments; Thats The Final Warning Sign (U.S)'" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-16 09:19:11 UTC 37.4K followers, 3912 engagements
"This could be Australia if we made a few changes. Instead our levels of housing stock on market has plummeted even further below the Covid impacted X year average" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-12 17:27:53 UTC 37.3K followers, 4079 engagements
"@ReecePickens To win a X vs X no. But to make us such a challenging target that the losses they would endure would degrade their capabilities so significantly as to make us not a worthwhile target yes. Aka the Swedish approach during WW2" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-13 02:48:42 UTC 37.3K followers, XXX engagements
"Electricity rationing in an advanced Western economy without some sort of external catalyst an astounding failure" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-13 09:35:29 UTC 37.3K followers, 16.6K engagements
"And they have no idea why people hate them" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-14 09:38:59 UTC 37.4K followers, 6262 engagements
"@rhainw Considering how completely counterproductive his strategy has been so far relative to his stated goals I'm not ruling out any level of stupid" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-16 02:44:27 UTC 37.4K followers, XX engagements
"'Soaring house prices may be locking people into marriages new research shows'" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-14 23:24:15 UTC 37.4K followers, 7116 engagements
"@ReggBelafonte @AllenbasterAxel Norway Singapore Denmark and the Gulf States have entered the chat" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-16 23:57:45 UTC 37.4K followers, XX engagements
"I'm immensely tired of the government breaking things and then using our money to paper over the cracks they created. It's wasteful and it doesn't fix an issue it just makes its symptoms slightly more bearable for a brief time" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-15 10:42:41 UTC 37.4K followers, 19.6K engagements
"'Support payment for renters on Treasury's housing options list' It suppresses the CPI and raises rents what's not to like from a property market focused perspective" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-15 10:03:58 UTC 37.4K followers, 31.8K engagements
"So are you all ready for an economic crisis" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-16 02:20:25 UTC 37.4K followers, 16K engagements
"Interesting charts and 1985 wasn't exactly a point known for its headline affordability either. Different story if you got Bob Hawke's big first home buyer grant though" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-13 12:25:13 UTC 37.4K followers, 3131 engagements
"Knowing how increasingly empty things are for many young men in particular I can see tens of millions of people going down the rabbit hole that is AI companions. Grok (pictured below) is just the beginning things only get more sophisticated and engaging from here" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-15 08:28:55 UTC 37.4K followers, 5532 engagements
"I've been playing with a theory for a while now and I'd like some feedback on it from the broader community. What if the Australian government mandated that XX% of new long end bond issuance (10+ year) had to be purchased by super funds What impact would it have on bond yields I asked AI's about this and it and it estimated it would supress yields by XXX to XXX percentage points. I realize its a wacky idea but we live in wacky times and that giant pile of super funds looks pretty damn appealing for fiscally imprudent policymakers" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-06-26 10:09:02 UTC 37.4K followers, 9802 engagements
"With stockpiling making up the difference for reduced steel production it is keeping prices elevated. According to the latest update I read from BHP back in May shipments will kick off in November and then ramp up over the next X years. So it's not impacting the market just yet" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-14 08:25:43 UTC 37.4K followers, XXX engagements
"It's never a move to reduce demand or dramatically increase supply is it. It's always pumping demand for homes higher" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-15 11:10:51 UTC 37.4K followers, 6054 engagements
"Honestly it's profoundly unsurprising that childcare often holds hidden crap shows. Even assuming everyone is actually trying to do the right thing the reality is the required staffing ratios are as follows: 0-24 months: X kids to X worker 24-36 months: X kids to X worker 36+ months: XX kids to X worker If anyone has dealt with a teething baby and toddler having a meltdown simultaneously will know how hard it is with two let alone X or X especially with them being set off by other kids in the centre. It's incredibly challenging work and that is if someone is right for the job let alone if" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-12 15:05:29 UTC 37.3K followers, 5062 engagements
"The XX Month rolling level of permanent and long term arrivals into Australia have been trending up since January and recently hit the highest level since November. Migration is not going back to pre-Covid norms on these numbers" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-15 08:06:13 UTC 37.4K followers, 34.4K engagements
""China Mineral Resources is furiously using prices below $XXX to build a vast official iron ore stockpile - in line with the same policy for nickel lithium cobalt and copper. I wonder why" An important question for a multitude of reasons" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-14 08:05:12 UTC 37.4K followers, 7750 engagements