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Think Tanks Blow Public Opinion: Prof Michael Hudson on the most influential US think tanks by Renegadeeconomists on Mixcloud Subscribe to the weekly Renegade Economists podcast Transcript Renegade Economists October 1, 2014: DOUBLETHINK TANKS, TAR SANDS, WATER &...
Infrastructure Recycling Code for Insider Pleasing
Part of our Evolving Economics Enews Series, our fortnightly'ish update on our latest news, views and events. Sign up! Steve Wall Value Capture Privatisation Agenda The Federal Government's $5billion infrastructure recycling program continues with...
New Stonnington parks to enforce land scarcity
Chris Vedelago at The Age has exposed a fascinating land-play by Stonnington Council, enforcing scarcity and lifting land prices in the most valuable residential municipality in Melbourne by adding to insatiable demand with its own house-buying to demolish and make...
East-West = Wasteful Infrastructure
Letter to the Editor The Age 03/10/2014 David Beardsell North Balwyn The 1880s in Victoria were largely driven by land speculation and the building of useless public and private infrastructure such as the Outer and Inner Circle railways, which ran from Oakleigh to...
It’s Raine-ing elderly property investors
Angus Raine of RE agents Raine & Horne burst into song about property taxes in a letter on page 55 of the Australian Financial Review today - and what a nice cartoon, Clement! Angus wants Stamp Duty tax breaks for empty nesters – people trapped in...
Tax Evasion the budget cost
The opening line to the Tax Justice Network's new report "Who Pays for Our Commonwealth?" states: if.... the largest Australian listed companies paid taxes at the statutory corporate tax rate of 30%, it would produce an additional $8.4 billion in annual revenues They...
Mernda Infrastructure: The Public Right to a Return on Investment
With ALP leader Daniel Andrews' announcement today of plans to extend the rail line to Mernda, the question arises of how to finance it. “The $600m cost will probably be sourced from general revenue. But we ask, why don’t the public receive a better return on...
Gaffney on Piketty’s flaws
A frenchman with no commentary on the Physiocrats? Mason Gaffney, author of the groundbreaking The Corruption of Economics and the recent Gaffney Reader, analyses Tomas Piketty's bestseller 'Capital'. Capital in Any Century: A Response to Thomas Piketty by Mason...
The Housing Supply Chimera
Australia is a mirror of other countries where high housing prices were also blamed on a shortage, always revealed, in hindsight, to be a chimera.
Scottish referendum a chance for resource sovereignty?
This week's Scottish independence referendum is a challenge over the sovereign ownership of resources. Who should profit from nature's endowment? At present barely 500 privileged families own half of the nation. Is this why the powers that be do not want independence?...
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