by Karl Fitzgerald | Jul 28, 2010 | Commentary
photo credit: jirotrom We honor Liberty in name and in form. We set up her statues and sound her praises. But we have not fully trusted her. And with our growth so grow her demands. She will have no half service! Liberty! It is a word to conjure with, not to vex the...
by David Collyer | Jul 20, 2010 | Commentary
photo credit: A Hermida Dear Reader, I have been issuing stern warnings about how Australia’s house prices are too high and must correct soon. I cannot say when the market will turn, but rabbit on that IT MUST! IT MUST! I try your patience. Other Cassandras have...
by Karl Fitzgerald | Jul 20, 2010 | Articles
Michael Hudson As first published in The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times, David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, and William J. Baumol, eds., (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010):8-39. Also on Michael’s website....
by Karl Fitzgerald | Jul 16, 2010 | Commentary
photo credit: ob1left Australia’s tax system protects foreign producers against their Australian competitors, writes Gavin R. Putland in this LVRG article. The Resource Super Profits Tax (RSPT) was sunk by the advertising firepower of the big miners, ostensibly...
by David Collyer | Jul 15, 2010 | Commentary
photo credit: Dru! A survey of property investors in The Age today by Colemar Brunton shows sentiment delicately poised between those who see the market flat or falling and those anticipating further rises. This is not the bursting of The Great Australian Property...