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US Mortgage Brokers Lobby a Win
More at The Real News A win for them, further strangulation of the US economy for the rest. By failing to allow those at-risk mortgagees to negotiate a more realistic mortgage, this will send many more famillies to the wall, lengthen social security queues and...
Why pick on Pratt anyway?
photo credit: Xava du [photographer padawan] Letters to the Editor THE AGE April 29, 2009 Dr Gavin Putland The supply of land is fixed; they're not making any more of it. Therefore the owners of land automatically constitute a cartel, even if they don't bother...
Hudson: Financial Barbarians at the Gate
Guns and Butter - April 15, 2009 at 1:00pmClick to listen (or download) In one of the most compelling interviews of recent times, Michael Hudson talks about economic warfare like few others. In a wide ranging interview discussing the GFC via his recent experiences in...
Vanuatu’s Sovereignty Surrendered
How independence was never intended to mean freedom When: Thurs April 30th, 6.30 for 6.45pm Who: Karl Fitzgerald, Prosper Australia Project Coordinator and 3CR’s Renegade Economist. Download Flyer Vanuatu means ‘Eternal Land’. However, our recent visit to these...
Real estate bubble? Been here before
photo credit: dave_7 Polly Cleveland Economists conventionally attribute the Great Depression to blunders by the then-new Federal Reserve Bank. According to this story, promoted by Milton Friedman and the Chicago School, after the stock market crash of 1929, the Fed...
Bailout Economics – Hudson
short but sweet
Georgism and the Single Tax on Land:
Why a 130-Year-Old Idea is Still Relevant Today Jason Bessey Apr 21, 2009 In the late 19th century, the Industrial Revolution was well underway. Society, it would seem, was beginning to make a huge leap in progress in areas like technology and production. In places...
Hudson on Capital Gains v Rents
What's the difference between land price and land value?
Economic Crisis Unveils Policy Vacuum
photo credit: zachstern Karl Williams Progress Magazine's editorial column. Make sure you sign up to receive a hard copy of our hard hitting magazine - Trial Subscriptions are available. This time of economic crisis is when we make our run. Politicians, think-tanks,...
Economic depressions for dummies
photo credit: azrainman Occasional commentary # 9 27 March 2009 Bryan Kavanagh Let’s say labour joins with capital to produce wealth. The locational rent of land arises as a by-product, simply from the existence of the community. Say, for some reason or other, you...
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