Justin Pyvis.
Justin has a PhD in economics and 20+ years of experience in policy and investment analysis from working at the WA Treasury and AECOM in Perth, and Aletheia Capital in Hong Kong.
Posts by Justin Pyvis
Price controls are never the answer
8 Oct 2026Bad ideas never die, and this week two of them came back at once.
Safety is the new censorship
6 Oct 2026The Albanese government is using unproven harms to justify censorship powers it doesn't need.
Responsible economic management
2 Oct 2026If this is as good as it gets, I'd hate to see what Chalmers thinks irresponsible economic management looks like.
Medicare wasn't hacked
29 Sept 2026The 'hack' that wasn't is already being used to sell AI regulation.
Chalmers' dangerous obsession
24 Sept 2026Australia's Treasurer is celebrating a ratio that tells you almost nothing.
Australia doesn't need sovereign AI
21 Sept 2026You don't need sovereign AI to be a sovereign state.
Amodei wants a cartel
17 Sept 2026For once even Trump is right: the AI safety slowdown is a hoax.
The inflation tax won't go away until the spending does
14 Sept 2026Inflation is sticky because public spending is too high.
We should worry about the jobs AI won't eliminate
8 Sept 2026The biggest threat from AI is too little disruption, not too much.
The race to zero
4 Sept 2026AI inference is getting cheap. Will anyone pay for the rest?