by Bryan Kavanagh reposted from On-line Opinion I’m constantly told Australia’s land prices are astronomically high because of our high rate of immigration and the shortage of supply of residential allotments So, it seems the price of a block…
Reposted from Bryan Kavanagh’s thedepression.org.au, an excellent source of dissident economic analysis. It helps that he is correct. If you jump off the top of a tall building, you’ll go splat at the bottom: that’s simple physics. We are told…
Bryan Kavanagh blogs at thedepression.org.au His latest tirade nails rentiers and land speculators. Many attempts to analyse the cause of the GFC contain more than a grain of truth. The vast majority, however, provide no useful hint to a remedy.…
photo credit: AveLardo Letter to the Editor – The Age Bryan Kavanagh, Glen Waverley It’s sickening to see the two major parties compete to sell Australians out as they kow-tow to foreign interests in connection with our natural resources. As…
photo credit: 10b travelling Clear-eyed media commentary in the national interest is rare and sweet. Alan Mitchell’s analysis of the Henry Tax Review in the Australian Financial Review – A tax on all your economic rents – is such a creature.…
photo credit: pfala Letter to the Editor THE AGE, MAY 4: Bryan Kavanagh, Glen Waverley WHEN an owner leases out his or her former business as a going concern, i.e. the freehold and the business, it is not uncommon for…
Leading financial economist and historian Professor Michael Hudson will be touring Australia October 12 – 27. Download the tour flyer See the Hudson Tour Multimedia Highlights Professor Hudson was one of twelve economists recognised for predicting the GFC. He is…
photo credit: alles-schlumpf Date: Thursday July 23rd Time: 6.30pm Venue: Frank Halkyard Library, 1/27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne Speaker: Bryan Kavanagh, Research Associate, LVRG Greenshoots? How bad WILL the Global Financial Crisis be? Why did our economists fail us? What’s the…
photo credit: arvindgrover Letter to the Age 29/06/09 The ups and downs Bryan Kavanagh Glen Waverly Re your page 1 headline about State land tax (Age 27/6). Our forecast in THE AGE Opinion Section on 11 March didn’t take long…