One-eyed Treasury can't see both sides of housing issue
Opinion: The Treasury has no idea whether the foreign buyer ban policy will make a discernible difference to house prices.
The Treasury is an embarrassment. Just when one concludes it can’t get worse, it does. And that happens year in, year out.
It would be best to return the Treasury to bookkeeping and outsource policy advice. Its work as policy adviser is an abject failure.
It’s not cheap: The Treasury’s wonk
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One-eyed Treasury can't see both sides of housing issue
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