FET (old posts)

If I combine the ideas of my land tax post , and my post on Tony Abbott , I end up with a generalised principle of scarce resources.  That i...

I do like Christmas. Maybe it’s the memories of childhood where a simple water pistol was enough to keep the anticipation high for weeks, an...

The past few weeks I’ve somehow found time to read.  Here are a few interesting titles that I would recommend.

…believes that a high price of oil will encourage new discoveries , such that the concept of peak oil is not valid.  This is a classic examp...

Kevin Rudd seems to be taking Federal control wherever he can.  His latest move is take more control over town and regional planning.  (Doe...

There is a lot of talk about population and number of new dwellings in the housing market debate.  What is generally overlooked is that at a...

The previous record for Australia's most expensive single dwelling (don't think it falls into the house category, nor even the mansi...

I state in my profile that we need to turn our ideas on their heads to gain understanding. So what did I make of this report of a man who ...

People hate taxes. But they are necessary, and some are better than others. Henry George’s arguments in his 1879 book Progress and Poverty...

I watched a Top Gear episode where Jeremy Clarkson raced a Toyota Prius and a BMW M3 around their test track for 10 laps. It wasn’t a race r...