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Is the property game finally over? Signals and Noise, July 31

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Most investors fail for two reasons. They base risk on their age instead of what markets actually cost today. And they get pulled into daily noise instead of thinking about how time compounds a portfolio.

In this week's free edition:

- This week's podcast, The Property Game Is Over: why two decades of leveraged one way bets on Australian housing look to be finished, free to listen to in full


- The fragile, robust, anti-fragile framework, and why most portfolios are built like coffee cups when they should be built like muscle


- The free investor personality assessment, if you don't already know your own wiring

And a heads up: our new podcast special, The Anti-Fragile Investor, drops Monday. Premium members already have the show notes.

Premium members are also getting the three points of friction moving markets this week, the Oz economy chapter on a refinery decision that quietly ends forty years of hands off government thinking, and the CAPE panel.

Read this week's issue.

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