photo credit: dbgg1979 Today’s Crikey had this corker: The housing market: Ben Loiterton writes: I am hoping you are alert to a gigantic sleeper issue building up steam in the community, although I haven’t seen any commentary from you at all. The issue is the alienation of the entire younger half of the population from the housing market as the … Read More
Sustainability’s Transition Decade
Taking our lead from a superb weekend of discussions amongst a gamut of switched on thinkers at the Sustainable Living Festival, Karl Fitzgerald and Andy Moore presented the Renegade Economists live from the event. During the show we ran through a dream list of predictions for a Transition Decade to sustainability Listen to the show (right click to download) as … Read More
Goldman Sachs Manipulates Monopoly Powers in Greece
photo credit: mescon The merchant banker’s millionaire formula has been exposed yet again, this time in Greece. A country whose public finance mechanism has been undone over decades of lobbyocracy was left with little choice but to sell off its crown jewels. It has been widely reported that Goldman Sachs helped create off sheet balance accounts where finance was provided … Read More
Free TV Handout Outrage
photo credit: OiMax Not only has the public re-organised spectrum space for the broadcaster’s new channels, but we’ve also gifted a rebate on their licensing fees! Some sort of Digital Dividend, Mr Conroy! A dividend for whom? Where will the missing $200 – $500m p.a come from? The broadcasters should be paying more for the added access to the commons, … Read More
The Best of Intentions
photo credit: JPD Photos AN EXPERIMENT IN INDIA The much travelled and well known author, Karl Eskelund, whose many books on foreign countries and their people have countless readers, describes the effort which a band of young American and English Quakers made in the way of assisting some of the Indian population, millions of whom live at starvation level. The … Read More