Breaking in on the Rent Seekers
photo credit: h.koppdelaney Bryan Kavanagh (LVRG) 11 March 09 As published in the Age today (Business Opinion page) “Put to the vote: as many are of the opinion that a public tax upon the land ought to be raised to…
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A betterment levy: a cure to current ills
photo credit: Nickster 2000 Steven Spadijer in Online Opinion today writes a superbly researched piece on why government’s must consider our policy position. Stop rolling the dice and go with the odds: Exactly 100 years ago Winston Churchill and…
To Fix a Problem, You’ve Got to Understand What Caused it
photo credit: cobalt123 An occasional commentary (for Australia’s federal politicians) #5 2nd February, 2008 Bryan Kavanagh LVRG, AAPI Early this morning Australian time, the BBC featured a well-credentialed panel in Davos discussing the world economic meltdown. As usual, none had…
Centenary of “The People’s Budget”
An occasional commentary on the economic depression # 3 By Bryan Kavanagh LVRG 5 January 2009, New Year Insights There’s amazing synchronicity in the centenary year of the “People’s Budget”, delivered in the UK under the Liberal Prime Minister Herbert…
The Economics of Climate Chaos
Karl Williams July 2008 It’s one thing to calmly read statistics about climate chaos but a completely different experience to hear the frightening stories from the disaffected. In the remote north-eastern Thai province of Nan, listening to a 60-year-old café…
How to thaw credit, now and forever
photo credit: Joel Bedford Mason Gaffney October 25, 2008 In a follow up to Professor Gaffney’s The Great Crash of 2008, he now delves into how credit can be freed from the current crisis. The Great Reckoning awaits… 1. Introduction…
Single Renters Miss Out on the PM’s Lifeboat
photo credit: alexkon Karl Fitzgerald Project Coordinator and Web Editor the Saturday Age – Business section, p2, Oct 25th. FREE market principles are being put to the test like never before. With share prices collapsing, policymakers are scrambling to keep…
Can the US Treasury learn from mistakes?
photo credit: betta design The $840bn bailout of US banks provides the US Treasury with a unique opportunity. Will the as yet unnamed new Federal agency (which we will call the Bailout Agency), charged with the responsibility for selling off…
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…
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 where…