Australia wins another international competition! Hurrah!
photo credit: A Hermida Dear Reader, I have been issuing stern warnings about how Australia’s house prices are too high [...]
Read MoreHistory of Debt and Property from the Ancient East
Michael Hudson As first published in The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times, David S. Landes, [...]
Read MoreProtection for Importers
photo credit: ob1left Australia’s tax system protects foreign producers against their Australian competitors, writes Gavin R. Putland in this LVRG [...]
Read MoreInvestor opinion: an uneasy equilibrium
photo credit: Dru! A survey of property investors in The Age today by Colemar Brunton shows sentiment delicately poised [...]
Read MoreAmerica discovers Gentrification
photo credit: Trois Têtes (TT) In at least 18 major US cities, the trend to suburban living to escape [...]
Read MoreSystemic Analysis: How Close Can One Get?
Watch this masterful animation to an excellent speech by social theorist David Harvey: Continue on by reading two pieces in [...]
Read MoreAustralians should be very, very angry – we get no RSPT
photo credit: Grégory Tonon This week’s backdown by the federal labor government on the Mineral Resource Rent Tax will [...]
Read MoreMining Democracy
photo credit: Urban~Spaceman Miners finally agree to tax reform. What are the changes? The attempt to harness economic rents for [...]
Read MoreUse Rent to Pay Your Way: Dr Gavin Putland
When You've Paid Your Rent, You've Paid Your Way View more presentations from Prosper. Following Gavin’s recent presentation, we thought [...]
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Liberty – A Word to Conjure
by Karl Fitzgerald
photo credit: jirotrom We honor Liberty in name and in form. We set up her statues and sound her praises. [...]
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