William Bennett
Will is a freelance business journalist and trader based in New York.
Opinion
Renting
Lowe is right: New York’s soaring rents shows why freezes won’t work
In his final appearance before parliament as Reserve Bank governor, Philip Lowe voiced his opposition towards rent freezes or caps. He may have a point.
- by William Bennett
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Commercial real estate
Could working from home cause the next financial crisis?
The lingering pandemic hangover of working from home has started to put serious pressure on commercial real estate values.
- by William Bennett
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Inflation
It’s a Lowe story: Shaking off inflation just got harder
It’s possible Taylor Swift’s concerts in Melbourne and Sydney could cause some champagne problems for the RBA in the fight against inflation.
- by William Bennett
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Investing
The bulls are back on Wall Street, but so is dangerous FOMO
Wall Street has been rallying lately, and FOMO (the fear of missing out) is drawing investors back into the market.
- by William Bennett
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Inflation
$31 for the house red: The US has hit ‘peak inflation’, but have we?
There are signs the worst of the cost-of-living crisis is over in the US, despite some exorbitant prices for a glass of plonk.
- by William Bennett
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Jobs
How the other half work: The luxurious life of a big tech employee
Led by free massages and game rooms, the stories of largesse at the world’s biggest tech companies are very much true.
- by William Bennett
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Cryptocurrencies
FTX’s spectacular collapse shows crypto will never be the ‘future of money’
FTX’s implosion serves as a validation of what many of us have been saying for a long time: cryptocurrency is just one large Ponzi scheme.
- by William Bennett
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Coronavirus pandemic
Australians are too obsessed with rules. She’ll no longer be right
I worry our cultural fetishisation for rules made us susceptible to a creeping authoritarianism overreach during the pandemic.
- by William Bennett
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Sharemarket
What I learnt quitting my job to trade the markets
I needed a change, some excitement – and what better time than during a global pandemic to take a leap into the unknown.Â
- by William Bennett