Prosper Australia

With property prices have dropped 23% in the UK over the last year and the UK verging on recession, what role do banks play in the quagmire? To think that Brown believes cutting property taxes will turn the UK property market around!

Fred has gone digital! He also has a new website, and a new blog with the title cheekily borrowed off our own Renegade Economists radio show. Interest in his work is really taking off, such that a regretful property developer has made a 2 part clip featuring Fred’s analysis of the 18 year cycle. It’s [...]

State control urged as rent surges 12.7% is the headline that attracts our eager eyes in the Age today. Many of the city’s most affordable suburbs have been hardest hit, with the typical rent on a two-bedroom house in Oak Park, Glenroy and Fawkner surging by 25%, according a report by the Department of Human [...]

Leading Georgist author Fred Harrison was interviewed on the Renegade Economists last week regarding his new book The Silver Bullet. Download his 16 minute interview covering issues such as Botswana’s success, a critique of Jeffery Sach’s Resource Curse theory and an overview of colonial motivations. Essential listening/ reading for those genuine in addressing the Millennium [...]

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Saturday’s Age article on Melbourne’s rental growth outstripping all other states is reflective of current government policy at all levels – local, State and Federal. When combined with record immigration levels, property flipping will continue unabated. Prosper Australia spokesman Karl Fitzgerald was quoted in another Age article on Home Buyers Lose out in Tax Change. [...]

Watch this clever animation of modern life and the insights gained when the big picture is considered. Animation is such an effective learning medium in our cluttered worlds. Life from all levels is analysed – except of course the big one – the monopolisation of land rents and how that drives sprawl, singularity and reduces [...]

With the recent passing of our number 1 ticket holder, Clyde Cameron, we were pleased to hear the ABC’s Phillip Adams replay the 1999 Late Night Live interview he held with the Honorable Clyde Cameron. It is a fascinating discussion with Clyde covering the foundation to his Georgist beliefs, involvement in the Henry George League [...]

With financial turmoil building daily, we have asked leading financial commentator Stephen Mayne to dissect the spreading credit crunch. Bear Stearns, Carlyle, North Rock, RAMS – who is next? Also joining us is Mairied Sullivan from the ‘Save Tara’ campaign on one of Ireland’s most sacred regions – Tara hill. We will hear the background [...]

Tune into www.3cr.org.au from 5- 6pm today or listen via good ole AM radio – 855 AM on the dial as hosts Karl & Rayna interview Steve Keen about his upcoming presentation, “Deeper in Debt” (tomorrow night in the Prosper Offices – book soon as places are filling fast). Steve will be asked to explain [...]