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The Depression – A Running List of Warnings

by | Jan 23, 2009 |

photo credit: funadium Over the next few posts we will bring you a series of reminders about how we and our colleagues have been warning about the impending financial peril for many years. The Depression An occasional commentary (for Australia’s federal politicians)...

The Secret Life of Real Estate

by | Jan 20, 2009 |

If you think economics is boring, you haven't met the real pirates of the Caribbean yet. Phil Anderson's recently published book The Secret Life of Real Estate is both exciting and timely. It provides detailed insight on how the addiction to land speculation became...

Land Values and Location

by | Jan 14, 2009 | ,

Following another reference to our history via the boardgame Monopoly on ABC radio (originally named the Landlord's Game), John Poulter of the Henry George Club called and was soon interviewed on the origins of the Single Tax. John sums up the principles behind our...

Corporate Pirates’ Colonial Tax Havens

by | Jan 13, 2009 |

photo credit: Cayusa Following on from the excellent ANP short film featured yesterday, George Monbiot recently wrote about the link between colonial interests and tax havens entitled Pin Striped Pirates: Over a quarter of the world’s tax havens are British property....

GFC: Bankers and sub-primers just scapegoats

by | Jan 6, 2009 |

The Bank of England now admits that the UK government failed to provide it with the tools needed to deal with boom/bust, according to an interview tonight on BBC's Panorama programme. The missing tool was tax policy. "That’s why we can say that the global recession...

Lovers of Land Tax

by | Jan 5, 2009 |

photo credit: Shavar Former journalist Lisa Pryor sums up the frustrations of the many at the quarterly roll out of baby boomers complaining about Land Taxes on investment properties. She writes in her It's Grim Down the South Coast for the Well Off : Land tax...