gabriel andre

We’re back on the property beat today. So if you don’t like the idea of reading more about a catastrophic fall in property prices you may want to skip this bit and head straight down to see what Swarm Trading technical analyst Gabriel Andre has to say about commodities.

As for property, we’ll touch on something we covered several months ago. And that is the notion of risk/reward.

You see reader, we aren’t bashing property for the sake of bashing property.

We’re giving the property market a bash because someone has to. It’s a big bubble waiting to burst, yet the drones in the mainstream media and mainstream economists for some reason see a continued rise in property prices as a positive sign.

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Today your editor is preparing for the ‘Australia in the Red‘ debt summit. If you haven’t reserved a ticket and paid your dues, don’t worry, I’ll give you a brief summary of the action on Monday.

Panel members include our slipstreaming, swarm trading technical analyst Gabriel Andre, Associate Professor Steve Keen from the University of Western Sydney, and Phillip Anderson – managing director of Economic Indicator Services.

I’m expecting it to be a lively debate. Maybe all the panelists will agree with each other – maybe they won’t. Who knows? But that’s all part of it.

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Yesterday your editor sent assistant publisher Joanne Ha, and Swarm Trading technical analyst Gabriel Andre out to the local coffee shop.

We armed them with a pencil, paper, a tape-recorder and the task of coming back with some of the basics of foreign exchange trading.

They came back almost an hour later with much more material than we expected. Therefore today’s Money Morning will be completely handed over to them.

For the record, Gabriel enjoyed a skinny milk hot chocolate (sans marshmallow), and Jo’s poison was a skinny latte with one sugar.

But before I hand over the reins, I did promise a visit to the Money Morning Mailbag. But there isn’t enough room today. So we’ll print a selection of them tomorrow. Also, we’ll go through the NAB and ANZ half-year results.

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We’ve written quite extensively on property recently. But just when we think all the arguments have been made by those trying to deny the existence of a property bubble, another surfaces.

Last Wednesday Luci Ellis, head of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) Financial Stability Department gave a speech to a conference at Victoria University in Melbourne. It covered the usual topics to do with the recent market turmoil: what happened, why it happened, what’s going to happen next, and… why Australia is different and won’t be affected.

You know, the usual stuff.

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