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…
photo credit: amirjina Can someone please write in their diary June 2024? Because that’s when we are going to start warning about the next big bailout for bankers. If we do not learn from the horrors of this downturn and…
photo credit: Arturo J. Paniagua Officials worldwide are scrambling to avoid a run on the banks, such is the fear sweeping markets. Rarely do you hear the need for statements by government finance honchos like Paulson (US) and Tanner (Aus)…
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…
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…
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 administration…
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…
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…
“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…
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…