A must read for those interested in Prof Michael Hudson's commentary on the growing influence of the FIRE sector in rent seeking activities, cross posted from Macrobusiness. By Leith van Onselen Business Spectator’s Rob Burgess made the following keen observation over...
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Perma-Nomics @ the SLF
As we build up for another year of inspiring conversation at the Earthsharing stall at the Sustainable Living Festival (Feb 14 - 16), put this presentation in your calender: PERMA-NOMICS CAN THE 12 PRINCIPLES OF PERMACULTURE BE PARAPHRASED INTO A NEW ECONOMICS? Friday...
Winston Churchill – land reformer
(1874 – 1965) This is one of our 50 famous biographies we are uploading by former Progress editor Karl Williams. See more “The socially-produced value of the land is reaped by the speculator in exact proportion, not to the service, but to the disservice, done. The...
Australian Valuation Office shut to help or hinder bubbles?
Today is a testing day for economic democracy with the announcement the Australian Valuation Office will be closed. The office has for 104 years valued our land - and was the cornerstone of the first federal tax office - the Federal Land Tax Office. We show concern at...
Englobo IV: Land, Land, everywhere but not a place to sit
Victorian Planning Minister Matthew Guy has been out this week energetically pointing to fresh ‘land releases’ around Melbourne. Growth, or the illusion of growth, is a powerful sedative that buys contentment and political support. He will bang this drum hard. Plan...
Eslake in Senate submission on Housing Policy Failure
Saul Eslake has hit the press (p3 of the AFR - paywalled) with his submission to the Senate Committee on Housing Affordability. The submission is largely based on his 122nd Annual Henry George Commemorative dinner presentation. Saul again reiterates his key point from...
House prices, not wages, is the bigger issue
Letters, Australian Financial Review 15 January 2014 p33 Peter Pitt (“High wages force companies to consider offshore options”, AFR January 10) suggests that a lower minimum wage will improve employment retention in Australia. The lower wage countries he uses to...
Canberra’s Centenary and the Perennial Land Question
2013 Clyde Cameron Memorial Lecture Saturday 14th December 2pm-5pm Keynote Speaker: Mr. Jack Waterford A.M. University House Hall, 1 Balmain Crescent, ANU J.E. (Jack) Waterford is an Australian journalist and commentator who is now Editor-at-Large of The Canberra...
Listed Developer Englobo Holdings
Sharemarket-listed property developers hold 264,000 residential lots in their development pipeline - 19.3 years supply with a disclosed end value of $80 billion - in a year when they sold only 13,000 lots, according to analysis by Prosper Australia. The largest holder...
Australia’s FIRE Sector Propaganda Matrix
by Paul Egan In the cult science fiction Matrix movies, people live within a simulated reality created by artificially intelligent machines who feed from their life energy; a dream world that has enslaved humanity due to a blissful lack of awareness of the invisible...