photo credit: laverrue Renegade Economist Show Notes As broadcast Wed March 25th on www.3CR.org.au Subscribe to the podcast GFC = Good For Corporates – we unveil more detail on the Geithner plan and fly thru recent economic events – how’s the detroit re-invention? If only we could inspire a mass of protest by white collar producers raising concern about the … Read More
Detroit crew rebuild $100 house into green community
photo credit: laverrue A local couple, Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert, started the ball rolling. An artist and an architect, they recently became the proud owners of a one-bedroom house in East Detroit for just $1,900. Buying it wasn’t the craziest idea. The neighborhood is almost, sort of, half-decent. Yes, the occasional crack addict still commutes in from the suburbs … Read More
Zimbabwe-like land grabs to escalate in Pacific
photo credit: robertpaulyoung There is little doubt that Zimbabwean-like land grabs will occur on our doorstep if current economic policy continues. The policy alternative we spell out below could pop the fuse to the frustration that led to Zimbabwean land grabs and the simmering tensions in Fiji. With the Pacific Islands rapidly privatising from kastomeray land title in the last … Read More
Sustaining What?
photo credit: Torley Selling the environment in order to save it? Frank Stilwell Professor of Political Economy University of Sydney As published in our Progress Magazine The Rudd government’s review of climate change policies, chaired by Professor Ross Garnaut, has issued its interim report and will present its final report later this year. Many environmentalists welcomed the interim report because … Read More
Deriving Value
photo credit: fsgm Renegade Economists Show 81 as broadcast on www.3cr.org.au on Wed March 18th Subscribe to the podcast Our NZ colleague Bob Keall from Resource Rentals for Revenue NZ discusses our purpose, with a few strong words on negative gearing amongst others. We also focus on the derivatives market and the shadow banking system. This is a technically shortened … Read More