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Lehman’s downfall for laymen
photo credit: {dpade1337} The escalating US financial disaster is fast forwarding into a grapple for handouts, with the vested interests having the ear of the policy makers whilst the less privileged are left behind in a trail of bewilderment, attempting to grasp the...
Boom Bust’nBankers: Harrison
With property prices have dropped 23% in the UK over the last year and the UK verging on recession, what role do banks play in the quagmire? To think that Brown believes cutting property taxes will turn the UK property market around!
The Crash of 2008
photo credit: mtbdeano Professor Mason Gaffney Get yourself comfortable - this is Must Read! This crash is The Big One; it has the signs of becoming a Category 5. How do we know? We’ve “been there and done that” so many times before, roughly every 18 years over the...
Fannie Freddie Fiasco
photo credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com How can the world's most right wing administration delve into the biggest act of socialism since the Great Depression? By allowing the economic fundamentals to be skewed towards speculation rather than production, the Bush...
Equal & Inalienable Rights to the Earth
photo credit: therapycatguardian Dr Terry Dwyer HENRY GEORGE COMMEMORATION ADDRESS Tuesday 2 September 2008 Sixty people gathered last night on Henry George's birthday to hear the Commemorative Address. The venue was the Conservatory, just across the road from...
Predictable Council Rates Fury
photo credit: nicksarebi In the past year more than 81,000 Victorians have received rates default notices, which then impose a 12 per cent interest charge on the debts. Council Rates are again in the headlines, with affordability pressures crunching into a large...
Speed Renting
6 - 8pm Sept 16th@ Horse Bazaar In conjunction with our I Want to Live Here film competition, we are running a Speed Renting night to assist in the pursuit of the perfect living environment. Speed Renting is similar to Speed Dating, though this time home hunters meet...
Rising oil prices; falling property values?
photo credit: Svadilfariby Gavin R. Putland (Address to the Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church, August 17, 2008.) Thank you, Peter. And thanks to all of you for welcoming this former Trinitarian Methodist, and current Trinitarian Orthodox Christian. I'm here as...
E.J Craigie
“Communally created values must be safeguarded, and it is the function of government to collect into the public treasury the value attaching to land by reason of the presence of the people, as that is the natural source from which public revenue should be drawn.”...
Fred Harrison’s Digital Dimensions Expand
Fred has gone digital! He also has a new website, and a new blog with the title cheekily borrowed off our own Renegade Economists radio show. Interest in his work is really taking off, such that a regretful property developer has made a 2 part clip featuring Fred's...
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