Posts Tagged ‘land’

Asset Bubbles always end in tears..

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

photo credit: sekundo Throw out the theory! That’s what policy makers are doing world-wide. From neo-liberalism to neo-handouts, one must ask what has happened to confidence in free market theory? Which leader in the western world will stand up? Failure to address the fundamental cause of this bust, the irrational expectations inherent in the lure [...]

Three Dimensional Economics

Monday, April 14th, 2008

by Karl Fitzgerald as published in Arena Magazine, Feb-March, 2008, Edition 93 In a period where the twin crises of global warming and the wealth gap are attacking society from both sides, policy makers are continually limited in their effectiveness by a two dimensional approach to economics. Land prices have increased at 4 times the [...]