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
The Importance of the Land Ethic
Alanna Hartzok The global financial crisis has demonstrated a deep systemic failure of the prevailing economic paradigm. So far, efforts to remedy the situation have failed to address the root causes of the meltdown and are digging the American people deeper into the hole of public debt. In an op-ed titled “Obama’s Ersatz Capitalism” earlier this year, Joseph Stiglitz wrote … Read More
Hudson hints at why speculators are ignored in supply slide debate
photo credit: hans s Michael Hudson As published in today’s Business Age Opinion section HIGHER land and house prices typically lead to an increased supply of housing. Yet at the peak of Australia’s perennial housing affordability crisis, the Housing Industry Association declared that there would be a 13 per cent fall in housing starts this calendar year, compounding last year’s … Read More
Economic Slavery Explained
THE INQUISITIVE BOY By “SPOKESHAVE” (circa early 1900’s) Out of the vault – this sums up our message like few others – please pass it on What place is that, pa? That is a brickyard, my son. Whose brickyard is it, pa? It belongs to me, my son. Do all these piles of bricks belong to you? Yes, my son, … Read More