Capitalism does not distribute abundance. It sustains value by distributing differential (as inequitable) access.
Capitalism does not distribute abundance. It sustains value by distributing differential (as inequitable) access.
Australia’s housing crisis is not a collection of separate failures. It is what happens when finance, construction, wages, planning, and social policy move at different speeds while remaining inseparably connected.
Every system sends the bill somewhere else until there’s nowhere left to send it.
Hyman Minsky, an economist who studied the fragility and collapse of financial systems, showed how finance is not neutral but recursive: price rises create collateral, collateral expands credit, and credit drives prices higher still. This acceleration does not move toward equilibrium but toward a critical inflection where reversal cascades through the system. Housing markets in […]