With the federal election campaign today seeing Opposition Leader Tony Abbot promoting Infrastructure bonds with a 10% tax concession for investors, there is an urgent need for better understanding of infrastructure financing. Abbot’s plan should be written off as the interest rate spread between Australia and the rest of the world is significant enough not [...]

Interesting facts – no unemployment in squatter cities! With free access to land we can always keep busy helping someone. Read more on population.

At least land gets one mention! How are people to envisage that the most important commons created resource is not immediately visible or apparent? Land values must be the anchor to this new commons based future. Bryan Kavanagh says Although publicly-generated land rent was $325 billion, we chose to fine labour and capital to the [...]

photo credit: cdsessums Daniel Kocieniewski reports in the NY Times on how the US oil industry is using tax havens to avoid repaying the community for the privilege of mining the earth for all it’s worth. Kocieniewski reports that the oil and natural gas industry has spent US $340 million on lobbyists since 2008 for [...]