The Advantage of Gold

The unemployment rate in the US rose to 10.2% in October, which was its highest rate since April 1983, according to figures from the US Labor Department. It rose from September's figure of 9.8%. The economy lost...

Roubini's Bad News Explained

Roy C. sent me the following message: “Roubini's bad news. Could you translate some of the harder stuff into something comprehensible?”Lets try to make it better understandable:The United States is up to its...

This Depression is just beginning

If 18-year Real Estate Boom-Bust cycles are measured 14 years to the top (August 2007) 2 years to the edge, and 2 years to the final bust, this one is obviously not over yet. "Skip the Happy Talk This...

Vacant U.S. Homes Stats: The U.S. Has Room for all of U.K.

In Australia, according to recent release of 2006 census figures, there are 100,000 homeless, but that figure will have multiplied many fold since 2006. The Australian government has allocated millions to reduce homelessness to 50% by 2020, but that initiative hasn't been...

Stupid property owners

The taxes that property owners hate most are the ones that hurt them least and are most likely to be spent for their benefit, writes Gavin R. Putland.–April, 2009–"Land and taxes In any tax jurisdiction, the supply of land is fixed. From the viewpoint of the...

"Let Them Have Stained Carpets" - Obama's Marie Antoinette Moment

"the finance industry has effectively captured our government" Max Keiser sums the present situation up, and offers a solution –a suggestion in one example, "RICO" – a group that crashed in 2005, on which Max...

A new form of capitalism is needed: Geonomics

Yes, we do have economic choices! The following analysis explains them very clearly. I'll mention it again: Phillip J. Anderson's book "The Secret Life of Real Estate - how it moves and why" (amazon.com) is a MUST read, and a wonderfully told story of the foundation of the...

Reinvigorating old ideas: Who Owns the World

From the March edition of Tinteán, the magazine of the Australian Irish Heritage Network.–A review of Kevin Cahill's masterful work, Who Owns the World, (This website features sample chapters from the book) Published by Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh,...

TARA update

The controversial double-tolled M3 freeway which is being built through the middle of the Tara–Skreen Valley, beside the Hill of Tara, Ireland's most important heritage site, will now be single-tolled,...

Economic deja vu as powers that be play same old tune

Bryan Kavanagh is a real estate valuer and honorary director of the Land Values Research Group, and he is one of Australia's leading experts on classical economics.– –Economic deja vu as powers that be play...

Messing With Our Minds

This is a short video from the Renegade Economist Press Conference recently held in London, and one of a five part series of MUST SEE videos by English Economist and author Fred Harrison. In the second video,...

Have You Hugged Anyone Lately?

I remember the days of work place sexual harassment lawsuits. One story in particular seemed to mark the end of the peak in late 1990s, when a woman sued her company because she SAW two co-workers hugging. :)I...

AUSTRALIA: Rudd guarantees all bank deposits

First Ireland, then Germany, and now... Australia has jumped into the fray to guarantee all deposits for 3 years.This is really getting serious, and we can blame it all on neo-classical economic policies. See Professor Mason Gaffney's website for the history:...

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