[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, money, mortgage rate 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 +15% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +45% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +60% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +4.80% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1028901576558034944/posts_active)  - X Week XXX -XX% - X Month XXX +32% - X Months XXXXX +47% - X Year XXXXX +9.90% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1028901576558034944/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.40% - X Month XXXXXX +1.40% - X Months XXXXXX +7.80% - X Year XXXXXX +17% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1028901576558034944/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::1028901576558034944/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) XXXXX% [countries](/list/countries) XXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies) XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% [gaming](/list/gaming) XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [australia](/topic/australia) #399, [powell](/topic/powell) 2.87%, [money](/topic/money) 2.3%, [mortgage rate](/topic/mortgage-rate) 1.72%, [told](/topic/told) 1.72%, [bank of](/topic/bank-of) 1.72%, [china](/topic/china) #3301, [inflation](/topic/inflation) 1.72%, [fed rate](/topic/fed-rate) 1.15%, [fed](/topic/fed) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@bnesgreatmates](/creator/undefined) [@twitai_censor](/creator/undefined) [@scotthill222](/creator/undefined) [@bowtiedstocks](/creator/undefined) [@taxpawspective](/creator/undefined) [@thelege2](/creator/undefined) [@mausincognito](/creator/undefined) [@letepavac](/creator/undefined) [@qa__rocks](/creator/undefined) [@peterleversha](/creator/undefined) [@1444_kris](/creator/undefined) [@i_menelaus](/creator/undefined) [@mmatvikov](/creator/undefined) [@davex68](/creator/undefined) [@jaiparker79](/creator/undefined) [@lavender_emma21](/creator/undefined) [@mattsquair](/creator/undefined) [@reecepickens](/creator/undefined) [@lucyaurorab](/creator/undefined) [@loo_skunt](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1028901576558034944/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "'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, 10.1K engagements "This absolutely shatters the idea the current generation are the most welfare reliant. That would be the Howard's Battlers era. Chart: Australian Parliamentary Library"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945776900271653170) 2025-07-17 09:25:38 UTC 37.4K followers, 5307 engagements "'Survey of Income and Housing results will not be released' "This decision means that the following products will not be released in 2025: - Income and wealth - Housing Occupancy and costs" Next update (for 2025) won't be until at least mid-2027"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945676427707498729) 2025-07-17 02:46:23 UTC 37.4K followers, 55.5K 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, 104.2K 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, 9270 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, 1693 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, 2992 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, 2137 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 "Australia Unemployment - Total jobs +2.0k MoM - Unemployment rate +0.2% to XXX% (Highest since November 2021) - Hours worked -XXX% MoM A very poor report across the board. It appears the jamming of the taxpayer funded jobs printer may be catching up with Aussie labour market"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945658311225000380) 2025-07-17 01:34:24 UTC 37.4K followers, 33.5K 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, 1660 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, 3247 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 "It's too late mate the damage has already been done and no one will believe you"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946017151191834723) 2025-07-18 01:20:18 UTC 37.4K followers, 7387 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, 23.5K 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, 17.8K engagements "Just based on some rough maths if we split that money evenly between every child under X nationally each one would get $8820"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1943220570096873939) 2025-07-10 08:07:41 UTC 37.4K followers, 19.1K 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, 1889 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, 17.1K 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, XXX engagements ""Too Late and the Fed are choking out the housing market with their high rate making it difficult for people especially the young to buy a house" - Donald Trump Long end bonds are the benchmark for U.S mortgages not the fed rate. So Trump is making the problem worse"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946168781539361216) 2025-07-18 11:22:50 UTC 37.4K followers, 2271 engagements "Of all the various types of unemployment youth unemployment in Australia is the one that is heavily as a result of policymaker choice. Policymakers just keep jamming in more people despite the youth unemployment rate being significantly higher than in some other countries"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945686832081195179) 2025-07-17 03:27:44 UTC 37.4K followers, 8588 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 "The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has lifted its cash rate to X% and projected that it will hit XXXX% by year end and XXXX% in mid 2023. Its well worth keeping an eye on Kiwi property as a bellwether of where things may be heading"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1529292700113321985) 2022-05-25 02:46:07 UTC 37.4K followers, XXX engagements "Asking prices for Kiwi property keeps falling. Source: Trade Me Housing Price Index"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1934510811613114432) 2025-06-16 07:18:13 UTC 37.4K followers, 30.8K 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, 1459 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, 1659 engagements "It's really weird when you read a paper or an article on the issues facing the Aussie economy and it doesn't once mention migration. It's like the issue is Voldermort or Candyman and must not be named. Yet in reality the data on the issue is clear even from government"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945770988811276527) 2025-07-17 09:02:09 UTC 37.4K followers, 12.2K 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, 44K 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, 8894 engagements "Throughout history France has often been flawed sometimes deeply but the underlying ideals of liberty fraternity and equality that have defined France for over two centuries have always been deeply admirable. It's sad to see their government moving away from that once more"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945977444420432184) 2025-07-17 22:42:31 UTC 37.4K followers, 3314 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, 31.9K 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, 18K 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, 85.2K 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, 3000 engagements "There is no reasonable reason for this approach not to be pursued in Australia Canada and elsewhere. If you have a housing shortage and that shortage is projected to get worse stop making it worse. Simple"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945979512115872169) 2025-07-17 22:50:44 UTC 37.4K followers, 11K engagements "This is an astounding stat. Since Q2 2022 the nominal growth in hours worked in Healthcare and Social Assistance in Australia has outstripped the entire market economy. Which encompasses every single other industry in the economy ex-government and education"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946037275739246981) 2025-07-18 02:40:16 UTC 37.4K followers, 7160 engagements "@tempo_cap If only it was doctors nurses and ambos. We wouldn't be dealing with the deteriorating healthcare outcomes we are facing"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946039887154839827) 2025-07-18 02:50:39 UTC 37.4K followers, XXX 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, 2702 engagements "Deputy Australian Statistician Dr Phillip Gould said: As the ABS modernises were developing new ways to collect information to improve response rates and make it easier for people to complete our surveys. This is partly because collecting data from households has become more difficult and costly in recent years. This is being experienced by statistical offices around the world. While we were compiling the statistics for SIH 2023-24 we found serious shortcomings in the questionnaire design and data collection processes that we could not overcome despite our best efforts. Producing reliable"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945684727895371870) 2025-07-17 03:19:22 UTC 37.4K followers, 1113 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, 9277 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, 6045 engagements "I'm sorry but a lot of these pro-China takes in the wake of Albo's trip there are just silly. Have people missed the economic coercion & expansionist moves into the South China Sea often towards nations that have done nothing but treat Beijing with respect. Let's be real"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945853777254465682) 2025-07-17 14:31:07 UTC 37.4K followers, 1942 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, 12.5K engagements "If I somehow magically luck into yacht money whether it be from Renaissance style aristocratic patron or winning a huge lotto jackpot I'm having a party for as many of our great community members as will practically fit 👍"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946201211662975484) 2025-07-18 13:31:42 UTC 37.4K followers, 1622 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, 17.6K engagements "@bowtiedstocks Is this why commercial real estate cap rates haven't been dramatically adjusted despite skyrocketing vacancies"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946099812367311244) 2025-07-18 06:48:46 UTC 37.4K followers, XXX 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 "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, 5471 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, 4370 engagements "Between unemployment and inflation surprising to the upside stagflation in Britain appears increasingly possible"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945726671111483817) 2025-07-17 06:06:02 UTC 37.4K followers, 4152 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 "In the last few days there has been quite a bit of discussion on Australia's national identity. Gods honest truth I don't know what that is. I know what it should be and what it was. But in 2025 I really don't know anymore"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946205301553897735) 2025-07-18 13:47:57 UTC 37.4K followers, 7365 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, 7141 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 "Why do I get the feeling that fares for X or 10x normal could become commonplace because the algorithm has worked out someone really needs to be somewhere urgently for a funeral"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946341966729695672) 2025-07-18 22:51:00 UTC 37.4K followers, 1198 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, 20K 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, 32.4K 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, 16.8K engagements "Canadian migration to ramp back up with the most costly type of entrants to the Treasury as humanly possible"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946029936185377120) 2025-07-18 02:11:06 UTC 37.4K followers, 4586 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, 3137 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, 5649 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, 9803 engagements "Since January the Aussie economy has generated just 21.6k new full time jobs. This compares with 101.4k generated in the same duration prior to that. With the taxpayer funded jobs printer slowing or even reversing we could be looking at a very different labour market"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945787838144151780) 2025-07-17 10:09:06 UTC 37.4K followers, 8622 engagements "Currently the Australian economy needs to generate 24000 jobs each month just for the unemployment rate to stand still. With generally government funded jobs growth stalling out in Q1 the big question is what does government do now"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945661112072155279) 2025-07-17 01:45:32 UTC 37.4K followers, 25.2K 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, 6119 engagements "I really don't understand this softly softly nonsense trend in the West. The rest of the world just looks at us wondering WTF we are doing we had a good thing going"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946024044748513386) 2025-07-18 01:47:42 UTC 37.4K followers, 3456 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, 35K engagements "A mate asked me a couple of years ago why do you wave at everyone who stops for you at a Zebra Crossing I replied because the bar is now so low that displaying even a modicum of common sense and decency is worthy of acknowledgement"  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945799719579705763) 2025-07-17 10:56:19 UTC 37.4K followers, 7688 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, 7874 engagements ""Australia's largest company (CBA) has been accused of "lying to workers" after sacking hundreds of staff and replacing them at the company's Indian subsidiary""  [@AvidCommentator](/creator/x/AvidCommentator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946071202742882520) 2025-07-18 04:55:05 UTC 37.4K followers, 41.7K engagements
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@AvidCommentator Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺
Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺 posts on X about australia, powell, money, mortgage rate the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @bnesgreatmates @twitai_censor @scotthill222 @bowtiedstocks @taxpawspective @thelege2 @mausincognito @letepavac @qa__rocks @peterleversha @1444_kris @i_menelaus @mmatvikov @davex68 @jaiparker79 @lavender_emma21 @mattsquair @reecepickens @lucyaurorab @loo_skunt
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"'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, 10.1K engagements
"This absolutely shatters the idea the current generation are the most welfare reliant. That would be the Howard's Battlers era. Chart: Australian Parliamentary Library" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-17 09:25:38 UTC 37.4K followers, 5307 engagements
"'Survey of Income and Housing results will not be released' "This decision means that the following products will not be released in 2025: - Income and wealth - Housing Occupancy and costs" Next update (for 2025) won't be until at least mid-2027" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-17 02:46:23 UTC 37.4K followers, 55.5K 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, 104.2K 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, 9270 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, 1693 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, 2992 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, 2137 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
"Australia Unemployment - Total jobs +2.0k MoM - Unemployment rate +0.2% to XXX% (Highest since November 2021) - Hours worked -XXX% MoM A very poor report across the board. It appears the jamming of the taxpayer funded jobs printer may be catching up with Aussie labour market" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-17 01:34:24 UTC 37.4K followers, 33.5K 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, 1660 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, 3247 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
"It's too late mate the damage has already been done and no one will believe you" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-18 01:20:18 UTC 37.4K followers, 7387 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, 23.5K 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, 17.8K engagements
"Just based on some rough maths if we split that money evenly between every child under X nationally each one would get $8820" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-10 08:07:41 UTC 37.4K followers, 19.1K 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, 1889 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, 17.1K 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, XXX engagements
""Too Late and the Fed are choking out the housing market with their high rate making it difficult for people especially the young to buy a house" - Donald Trump Long end bonds are the benchmark for U.S mortgages not the fed rate. So Trump is making the problem worse" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-18 11:22:50 UTC 37.4K followers, 2271 engagements
"Of all the various types of unemployment youth unemployment in Australia is the one that is heavily as a result of policymaker choice. Policymakers just keep jamming in more people despite the youth unemployment rate being significantly higher than in some other countries" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-17 03:27:44 UTC 37.4K followers, 8588 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
"The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has lifted its cash rate to X% and projected that it will hit XXXX% by year end and XXXX% in mid 2023. Its well worth keeping an eye on Kiwi property as a bellwether of where things may be heading" @AvidCommentator on X 2022-05-25 02:46:07 UTC 37.4K followers, XXX engagements
"Asking prices for Kiwi property keeps falling. Source: Trade Me Housing Price Index" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-06-16 07:18:13 UTC 37.4K followers, 30.8K 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, 1459 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, 1659 engagements
"It's really weird when you read a paper or an article on the issues facing the Aussie economy and it doesn't once mention migration. It's like the issue is Voldermort or Candyman and must not be named. Yet in reality the data on the issue is clear even from government" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-17 09:02:09 UTC 37.4K followers, 12.2K 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, 44K 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, 8894 engagements
"Throughout history France has often been flawed sometimes deeply but the underlying ideals of liberty fraternity and equality that have defined France for over two centuries have always been deeply admirable. It's sad to see their government moving away from that once more" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-17 22:42:31 UTC 37.4K followers, 3314 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, 31.9K 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, 18K 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, 85.2K 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, 3000 engagements
"There is no reasonable reason for this approach not to be pursued in Australia Canada and elsewhere. If you have a housing shortage and that shortage is projected to get worse stop making it worse. Simple" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-17 22:50:44 UTC 37.4K followers, 11K engagements
"This is an astounding stat. Since Q2 2022 the nominal growth in hours worked in Healthcare and Social Assistance in Australia has outstripped the entire market economy. Which encompasses every single other industry in the economy ex-government and education" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-18 02:40:16 UTC 37.4K followers, 7160 engagements
"@tempo_cap If only it was doctors nurses and ambos. We wouldn't be dealing with the deteriorating healthcare outcomes we are facing" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-18 02:50:39 UTC 37.4K followers, XXX 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, 2702 engagements
"Deputy Australian Statistician Dr Phillip Gould said: As the ABS modernises were developing new ways to collect information to improve response rates and make it easier for people to complete our surveys. This is partly because collecting data from households has become more difficult and costly in recent years. This is being experienced by statistical offices around the world. While we were compiling the statistics for SIH 2023-24 we found serious shortcomings in the questionnaire design and data collection processes that we could not overcome despite our best efforts. Producing reliable" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-17 03:19:22 UTC 37.4K followers, 1113 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, 9277 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, 6045 engagements
"I'm sorry but a lot of these pro-China takes in the wake of Albo's trip there are just silly. Have people missed the economic coercion & expansionist moves into the South China Sea often towards nations that have done nothing but treat Beijing with respect. Let's be real" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-17 14:31:07 UTC 37.4K followers, 1942 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, 12.5K engagements
"If I somehow magically luck into yacht money whether it be from Renaissance style aristocratic patron or winning a huge lotto jackpot I'm having a party for as many of our great community members as will practically fit 👍" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-18 13:31:42 UTC 37.4K followers, 1622 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, 17.6K engagements
"@bowtiedstocks Is this why commercial real estate cap rates haven't been dramatically adjusted despite skyrocketing vacancies" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-18 06:48:46 UTC 37.4K followers, XXX 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
"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, 5471 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, 4370 engagements
"Between unemployment and inflation surprising to the upside stagflation in Britain appears increasingly possible" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-17 06:06:02 UTC 37.4K followers, 4152 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
"In the last few days there has been quite a bit of discussion on Australia's national identity. Gods honest truth I don't know what that is. I know what it should be and what it was. But in 2025 I really don't know anymore" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-18 13:47:57 UTC 37.4K followers, 7365 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, 7141 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
"Why do I get the feeling that fares for X or 10x normal could become commonplace because the algorithm has worked out someone really needs to be somewhere urgently for a funeral" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-18 22:51:00 UTC 37.4K followers, 1198 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, 20K 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, 32.4K engagements
"So are you all ready for an economic crisis" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-16 02:20:25 UTC 37.4K followers, 16.8K engagements
"Canadian migration to ramp back up with the most costly type of entrants to the Treasury as humanly possible" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-18 02:11:06 UTC 37.4K followers, 4586 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, 3137 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, 5649 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, 9803 engagements
"Since January the Aussie economy has generated just 21.6k new full time jobs. This compares with 101.4k generated in the same duration prior to that. With the taxpayer funded jobs printer slowing or even reversing we could be looking at a very different labour market" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-17 10:09:06 UTC 37.4K followers, 8622 engagements
"Currently the Australian economy needs to generate 24000 jobs each month just for the unemployment rate to stand still. With generally government funded jobs growth stalling out in Q1 the big question is what does government do now" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-17 01:45:32 UTC 37.4K followers, 25.2K 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, 6119 engagements
"I really don't understand this softly softly nonsense trend in the West. The rest of the world just looks at us wondering WTF we are doing we had a good thing going" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-18 01:47:42 UTC 37.4K followers, 3456 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, 35K engagements
"A mate asked me a couple of years ago why do you wave at everyone who stops for you at a Zebra Crossing I replied because the bar is now so low that displaying even a modicum of common sense and decency is worthy of acknowledgement" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-17 10:56:19 UTC 37.4K followers, 7688 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, 7874 engagements
""Australia's largest company (CBA) has been accused of "lying to workers" after sacking hundreds of staff and replacing them at the company's Indian subsidiary"" @AvidCommentator on X 2025-07-18 04:55:05 UTC 37.4K followers, 41.7K engagements