High Rents and Low Wages
photo credit: Omar Eduardo Taken from an early 1900’s document I don’t know what the country is coming to; I work from morning till night every day of my life and yet it’s as much as I can do to…
Karl Fitzgerald
Karl Fitzgerald was the former Director of Research at Prosper Australia for 18 years. He now leads Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy.
A Critique of Paul Samuelson
photo credit: kevindooley Michael Hudson Originally posted at Counter Punch Paul Samuelson, America’s best known economist, died on Sunday Dec 13th. He was awarded the Nobel prize for economics, (founded one year earlier by a Swedish bank in 1970 “in…
Henry Review Rumours re Land Tax
photo credit: mugley The plot thickens with Glenn Milne reporting THE Federal Government’s biggest tax inquiry in more than two decades is set to propose a national land tax, a new resource tax and a congestion tax for clogged cities.…
NZ Land Tax – common misconception
photo credit: D.Reichardt Regarding NZ’s Buckley Tax Review, Promises and Costs of a Land Tax : On the one hand, a land tax would induce farmers to make the best possible use of their land, since the tax would be…
UK Bankers Runaway Tax Dodge
photo credit: Compound Eye – on Fall 09 Colorado Review cover Gordon Brown’s increasingly populist policies have leapt to a new level of desperation. Reflecting the severity of the economic malaise in England, the British government has announced a new…
Tradeable profits soar, wages suffer
photo credit: ViaMoi Mining and finance are the big winners in the devolving economic model we endure. With the concentration of big business so great, those with control of scarce resources or scarce employment opportunities are able to lean on…
The ‘I Want to Live Here’ film comp winner
Check out this funky clip defining how the war on creativity is defined by speculative pariahs undermining creative communities via the age old rental squeeze. Congratulations to Ingrid Brooker as the winning entrant.
NZ Tax Justice Move
New Zealand is known as one of the world’s leading gimp nations when it comes to protecting the future that land in prime locations avails. They have no Land Tax. They have pathetically low council rates. Worse, these are set…
Corporate communities voted down
The popularity of McMansion-ville suburbs dwindles as genuine home-buyers look for communities with character in New home sales retreat: HIA Sales of new homes in Australia dropped in October, an industry survey showed today, in a further pullback from stimulus-driven…