Nathan Kettlewell

This Deficit is a major threat to my household's finances, and indeed, my family's Security!

If for any reason you decide to raise your prices, then, whatever the number you choose to raise them by, will be added onto the 25% that I charge. Please understand that these fees are necessary to correct the many years of you not buying anything from me, causing an unsustainable Trade Deficit.

Starting from 1 August 2025 I will charge Jim's Plumbing a fee of only 25% on any and all plumbing work done to my property. Please understand that the 25% number is far less than what is needed to eliminate the Trade Deficit disparity I have with your company.

Nevertheless, I have decided to move forward with you, but only with more balanced, and fair, TRADE. Therefore, I invite you to participate in the extraordinary Economy of my household, the number one in the world, by far. Our relationship has, unfortunately, been far from Reciprocal.

Dear Jim's Plumbing,
It is a great honor for me to send you this letter in that it demonstrates the strength and commitment of our Trading Relationship, and the fact that my household has agreed to continue working with you, despite having a significant Trade Deficit with your great Company.

Government already does a similar thing for private health insurance and in NSW for CTP green slips.

When I sold a place a few years back I was shocked by the real estate .com fees,which no doubt are added to selling price. Then add in the other anti competitive stuff conglomerates do.

Like, I can see a 'free markets' type argument but this is a kind of natural monopoly scenario so I don't think that argument goes very far. Notwithstanding the opps for market manipulation from powerful vertically integrated conglomerates like Murdoch.

Murdoch’s News Corp has moved into the mortgage business. Where are the regulators? Australia doesn’t have a regulator suitable to tackle the kind of media, advertising and home-lending giant News Corp’s REA Group is becoming.

Is there a good reason why state or federal governments don't simply offer their own websites to advertise homes, requiring all homes to be listed there?

theconversation.com/murdochs-new...

Yeah, I'm thinking to do that

I think AI can do a lot of good for scientific progress, but this ain't it. Soul draining stuff.

I'm responding to a referee report that I'm convinced was entirely generated by AI. E.g., why did you do X? X isn't mentioned *anywhere* in the paper, but from the ref list you could see how AI could predict it is. And of course verbose 'kind of makes sense but not really' sentences abound.

Private health insurers are now offering GP telehealth services. Is this a risk to Medicare? Some private health insurers are offering their members easier access to GP telehealth services, sometimes for free.

theconversation.com/private-heal...

Faster than average.

I've never submitted there, good to know!

Fast econ? You might be searching for a unicorn Fabio.

In seriousness, I'm not sure you can reasonably expect under 3-4 months at any 'top' journals. But fwiw, AEJ JPubE, JHR and EJ have been above average in my limited experience as submitter/reviewer.

I started listening to Ashenfelter's podcast because you plugged it, and have really enjoyed it (not so much for the economics as the personal stories). So I trust your advice!

Maybe just regular two-way scatter but plus C*quintile_number to the x values (where C is some constant)? At least for the basic structure... Then tedious fiddling for pretty colours and annotations

We are opening registration for the Australian Replication Games!

Deakin University, Melbourne June 7th

University Technology, Sydney June 11th

We are looking for researchers, faculty and graduate students interested in a reproduction/replication challenge!