Property Supply Magic
photo credit: Super Doily As published in yesterday’s Online Opinion As if out of thin air, a magical 46 per cent more property was offered for sale in February than a year earlier. Like the heavens opening after a long…
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Lobby Your MP on Housing Affordability
Your name: Your email address: Subject: Your local member of parliament Tony Abbott (Warringah)Dick Adams (Lyons)Anthony Albanese (Grayndler)John Alexander (Bennelong)Karen Andrews (McPherson)Kevin Andrews (Menzies)Bob Baldwin (Paterson)Adam Bandt (Melbourne)Bruce Billson (Dunkley)Sharon Bird (Cunningham)Bronwyn Bishop (Mackellar)Julie Bishop (Curtin)Chris Bowen (McMahon)David Bradbury (Lindsay)Jamie…
What We Want – Buyers Strike
The Home Buyers Strike was launched to warn prospective home owners that now is not the time to enter the market. Sign our Total Abstainers Pledge so we can demonstrate that this is a genuine movement for people who expect…
Buyers Strike finds heavyweight backing
The first home Buyers Strike announced by tax reform group Prosper Australia last week is being supported by debt-skeptic Steve Keen. “This is an excellent idea which I endorse,” Keen said on his website (1) yesterday. “It would be a…
Buyers Strike “Irresponsible”
“Two secure jobs and a good deposit are no longer enough to buy a home. First home buyers must make a life-long vow of poverty as well. It is irresponsible to expect such a sacrifice,” Collyer said. “Do not underestimate their anger and frustration at being denied land ownership and its civic benefits.”
Liberate labor and enterprise
The reform challenge for our beloved country is to discard the taxes that weigh on effort and creativity, and to put them instead on economic rents, like land and mining.
We wont listen to our own experts, how about a foreign one?
photo credit: Express Monorail Australians have a disturbing mind-set: we prefer foreign experts over our own. People like Steve Keen and Gavin Putland make waves overseas with their valuable commentary on The Great Australian Housing Bubble, but are ignored at…
The pain in falling land prices
photo credit: Travis S. The US housing market is a living hell. Homeowners are being boiled alive. The price of land was bid up to staggering multiples of incomes, until it no longer made sense to buy a house. And…
Eurozone: ignore land prices at your own peril!
With the sounds of despair rioting through the streets of Greece, Spain, Ireland and others who no longer have the ability to fund themselves, it is a sign of the times that even the IMF is pushing for improved tax…
Hudson on G20, Currency Wars – Democracy Now!
Michael Hudson as interviewed by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez on Democracy Now! Summary: The Federal Reserve will pump $600 billion more into the U.S. economy and keep interest rates at historical low levels. The short-term impact of the Fed’s…