Posts Tagged ‘Bryan Kavanagh’

A nation renting

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

Mining Sovereignty Sold

Friday, July 1st, 2011

photo credit: AveLardo Letter to the Editor – The Age Bryan Kavanagh, Glen Waverley It’s sickening to see the two major parties compete to sell Australians out as they kow-tow to foreign interests in connection with our natural resources. As Julia Gillard accedes to the requirements of the big miners, Tony Abbott says she’s still [...]

Like Gold in a Coal Mine

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

photo credit: 10b travelling   Clear-eyed media commentary in the national interest is rare and sweet. Alan Mitchell’s analysis of the Henry Tax Review in the Australian Financial Review -  A tax on all your economic rents  – is such a creature. He opens with a broadside at entrenched interests pretending the changes will affect the economy: [...]

At last, payment for the owners

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

photo credit: pfala Letter to the Editor THE AGE, MAY 4: Bryan Kavanagh, Glen Waverley WHEN an owner leases out his or her former business as a going concern, i.e. the freehold and the business, it is not uncommon for the net profit before income tax and depreciation to be split equally between the landlord [...]

Professor Michael Hudson Touring October

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Leading financial economist and historian Professor Michael Hudson will be touring Australia October 12 – 27. Download the tour flyer See the Hudson Tour Multimedia Highlights Professor Hudson was one of twelve economists recognised for predicting the GFC. He is a government advisor to many nations, and is fast gaining a reputation in policy circles [...]

Anatomy of the GFC

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

photo credit: alles-schlumpf Date: Thursday July 23rd Time: 6.30pm Venue: Frank Halkyard Library, 1/27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne Speaker: Bryan Kavanagh, Research Associate, LVRG Greenshoots? How bad WILL the Global Financial Crisis be? Why did our economists fail us? What’s the future of real estate? Come and hear Bryan Kavanagh dissect “The Anatomy of the Global [...]

Land Tax defence

Monday, June 29th, 2009

photo credit: arvindgrover Letter to the Age 29/06/09 The ups and downs Bryan Kavanagh Glen Waverly Re your page 1 headline about State land tax (Age 27/6). Our forecast in THE AGE Opinion Section on 11 March didn’t take long to materialise, did it? We said that the same property ‘investors’ (read speculators) who got [...]

Economic depressions for dummies

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

photo credit: azrainman Occasional commentary # 9 27 March 2009 Bryan Kavanagh Let’s say labour joins with capital to produce wealth. The locational rent of land arises as a by-product, simply from the existence of the community. Say, for some reason or other, you wanted to create an economic depression. How would you go about [...]

Taking the ‘con’ out of ‘confidence’

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

An occasional commentary on the depression # 8 5 March 2009 Bryan Kavanagh* There’s something happens when people get together in groups. Their IQs halve. If the most obvious fact an outsider puts to the group is incomprehensible to them, the interloper should be set upon and duly removed by the group’s designated attack dogs. [...]

Breaking in on the Rent Seekers

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

photo credit: h.koppdelaney Bryan Kavanagh (LVRG) 11 March 09 As published in the Age today (Business Opinion page) “Put to the vote: as many are of the opinion that a public tax upon the land ought to be raised to defray the public charge, say ‘yea’… ” “… Carried in the affirmative, none dissenting.” – [...]