by Karl Fitzgerald | Aug 2, 2013 | Articles
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 Tax acts to equalise the natural advantages...
by Karl Fitzgerald | Jul 26, 2013 | Articles
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 rent tax was the...
by Karl Fitzgerald | Jul 19, 2013 | Events
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 started as the...
by Karl Fitzgerald | Jun 7, 2013 | Multimedia, Speeches
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...
by Karl Fitzgerald | Jun 2, 2013 | Commentary, Speeches
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 power at the state legislature. Tonight we...