Surprise! A new Age survey found that investors were concerned about the Henry Review’s proposed Resource Rent Tax: … a staggering 92 per cent believed that the higher taxes would hurt the share prices of resource stocks. Long-term effects were…
photo credit: ToOliver2 Dr Gavin Putland Taken from the Dec – Jan edition of Progress. Download Progress (8MB) If a “site” is a piece of ground or airspace, then the “rent” of the site is simple enough: it is…
photo credit: xeeliz Our colleague Gavin Putland is quoted in this article by Leon Gettler: Predicting when the property bubble will pop is bad for your mental health PROPERTY bubbles suspend laws of supply and demand. In markets for widgets,…
It’s hard to keep up with Professor Hudson’s rapid fire work rate. Wash the dishes to these 2 key interviews. Guns and Butter – Obama’s Republican Class War Presidency – February 3, 2010 at 1:00pmClick to listen (or download) Guns…
photo credit: moominsean Tuesday 2nd March Phillip J Anderson Phil Anderson, (Economic Indicator Services) author of The Secret life of Real Estate, will discuss the economic policies of the day in light of his arresting array of charts. Will the…
photo credit: Hyaground Peter Martin, the journalist with the biggest sieve (catching all those Henry Tax report leaks), wrote recently on the LP’s highly secretive Ergas report: The report proposes an annual land tax that would extend to the family…
Michael Hudson If the economy deteriorates in the L-shaped “hockey-stick” rut that many economists forecast, what political price will President Obama and the Democrats pay for having returned the financial keys to the Bush Republican appointees who gave away the…
Read Hudson’s latest interpretation of Obama’s economic policies: At stake now is President Obama’s credibility as an agent for change. Voters see his main “change” thus far to have been favoritism to Wall Street. Jay Leno jokes that Obama has…
photo credit: With debate over the impact of China’s real estate bubble leading to a stock exchange ‘flu’ this week, moves are afoot as: … today’s Beijing Youth Daily reports that the Ministry of Land and Resources recently released a…
Watch this short video from our colleagues in Philadelphia to see how the tax system places community activity in the waste bin via the waste-land mentality.