5 - The Blueprint

This week Stephen and Ivan talk about the regulator crackdown on interest-only loans and the AICD's Blueprint for Growth, which outlines our national reform agenda.

Discussed in this episode:

[0:46] APRA interest-only loan crackdown

[0:57] RBA Governor's property warning

[1:14] Bank executive comments

[1:33] APRA’s original 2014 restrictions

[3:44] RBA’s April interest rate decision

[4:05] Council of Financial Regulators

[4:41] Glenn Stevens on ‘crazy’ house prices

[5:17] RBA turns downbeat

[5:27] Surprise jobless rate increase

[6:07] AICD’s Blueprint for Growth

[7:06] AICD education programs

[7:37] Stephen on infrastructure

[7:50] Negative gearing escalation

[8:14] Morrison: “We have a spending problem.”

[8:49] Morrison: “We have an earnings problem.”

[9:14] 2016 budget spending GDP share

[14:07] Superannuation tax concessions cut

[14:12] SME company tax cuts

[14:22] Tax efficiency

[15:15] Regressive tax

[15:35] Land tax

[16:17] Milton Friedman on tax

[17:11] Australian current account deficits

[17:53] Negative gearing in 2016 election

[18:20] CGT discount introduced in 1999

[19:16] Government considering CGT changes

[19:30] Henry tax review

[21:58] Where Ivan misquotes Keynes 

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