https://left4more.com/tags/negative-gearing/Recent content in Negative-Gearing on Left 4 MoreHugoen-auThu, 21 May 2026 18:08:16 +1000https://left4more.com/posts/policy-dependents-and-the-end-of-the-free-ride/Thu, 21 May 2026 18:08:16 +1000https://left4more.com/posts/policy-dependents-and-the-end-of-the-free-ride/<p>There&rsquo;s a line doing the rounds this week from an investment commentary piece that&rsquo;s worth sitting with for a moment: <em>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re not sophisticated investors. They&rsquo;re policy dependents.&rdquo;</em></p> <p>It&rsquo;s a clean hit. The kind of sentence that gets screenshot and shared before people have properly thought about whether they agree with it. And I&rsquo;ve been turning it over for a couple of days, because my initial reaction was &ldquo;yes, exactly,&rdquo; which usually means I should be more careful.</p>https://left4more.com/posts/housing-is-not-an-investment-strategy-it-never-sho/Thu, 14 May 2026 17:28:39 +1000https://left4more.com/posts/housing-is-not-an-investment-strategy-it-never-sho/<p>There&rsquo;s a story doing the rounds online that I keep thinking about. A single parent, working full time, goes to auction fifteen years ago. She&rsquo;s the only person there who actually wants to live in the house. Everyone else is an investor. She wins, barely, but pays more than she should have because a cluster of people with existing wealth decided that her future home was a line item on their tax return.</p>