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Sunday, September 30, 2018

What is land? It is not a product, but an ownership share of three-dimensional space

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Is land an object that can be produced? The answer to this important question provides the foundation for properly analysing land and housin...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Free land, dirt cheap

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127th Annual Henry George Dinner Speech 1. To make health care affordable we broke this monopolistic market. We now spend over $100 bil...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2018

The absurd scale of Australia’s financial rip-offs

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Australia has transformed over the past three decades into a land of financial rip-offs , tax loopholes, and political gifts to takers...
Monday, July 30, 2018

A comment on property taxes and prices

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Image source: Los Angeles Times The low prices in the 'no-zoning' city of Houston, Texas, are repeatedly called upon as an exam...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

July rants

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1. Ocasio-Cortez Trump says nonsense daily. Obama tells flat out lies. Yet a passionate new political player can send the 'twitter left...
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Sunday, May 6, 2018

Time to unwind the superannuation system

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It is about time someone was honest about Australia’s superannuation system. This multi-trillion dollar financial monstrosity funnels money ...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Delay or Develop? What really determines the rate of new housing supply

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Recent reports by  Grattan Institute  and the  Reserve Bank of Australia  have argued that zoning is a significant cause of Australia’s hig...
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Friday, April 6, 2018

Queensland is giving its gas away

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Australia's mining and energy industry often claims to be a significant source of public revenue. One case where that is not true is in ...
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Saturday, March 24, 2018

Seven questions economists can't answer

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I’m not saying all economists can’t answer these questions. I’m saying that collectively these are core parts of what the discipline of econ...
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