Address to the 122nd Annual Henry George Commemorative DinnerThe Royal Society of Victoria, Melbourne 2nd, September 2013 by Saul Eslake An edited audio recording of the presentation was broadcast on this week’s Renegade Economists radio show. Note: The opinions expressed…
The following is an article published in Online Opinion today. Dymphna Boholt, the focus of this article, released an enews on the day the ABS 8 Capital Cities index was released (revealing a national 2.4% upkick in prices) entitled “Are…
Updated April 2016 Location, location is a crucial real estate strategy but ignored in neo-classical economics. This leads to poor economic policy that ignores the natural advantage of owning a prime location over running a business. Investors hover around 50+%…
Two shows related to the event were recorded for Renegade Economists radio: Safe as Houses – an interview with Joel Pringle & Marcus Westbury An edit of the live recording from the event. Australian’s for Affordable Housing, Prosper Australia and…
Link to presentation Saul Eslake is one of Australia’s most highly respected economists and a renowned critic of Negative Gearing: “In my view it is impossible to conclude that negative gearing serves any purpose than to allow wealthily affluent tax…
We tried to bring GetUp to speed with housing policy with our Dont Buy Now campaign. They ignored that and continue to ignore basic economic science. More money on a fixed planet is destined to raise land prices. A Land…
by Professor Michael Hudson How can China avoid the “Western financial disease” – a real estate bubble followed by defaults and foreclosures? The U.S. and European economies originally sought to avoid this fate by taxing the location’s site value. A…
Fri Aug 2nd, 6.30 – 9.30pm 2/22 Punch La, Melbourne Housing advocates, renters, gamers and friends, join us for a night of winter jousting! If you are intrigued about the world's most popular boardgame – Monopoly – and how it…
Renegade Economists podcast 292 As broadcast on 3CR, Wed June 5th, 2013 Listen to the show Subscribe to the weekly podcast Dr Terry Dwyer (former Treasury economist) continues the investigation into monopoly theory, discussing wasteful competition in what were once…
Andy Moore, President of Prosper Australia. May 31st, 2013 We are here tonight for the launch of a new look and invigorated think tank – Prosper Australia’s new Punch Lane address – as we migrate closer to the corridors of…