Buyers Strike Goes Mainstream

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Renegade Economists Show 175 Broadcast on 3CR, Wed March 30th Listen to the show Subscribe to the podcast As the Don’t Buy Now campaign hits fever pitch, the Age had our campaign as the lead story for most of the day. Google News Australia ranked the Buyers Strike at no1, as did Yahoo. The day started with David Collyer interviewed … Read More

Buyers Strike Special on air

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Renegade Economists radio As broadcast on 3CR, Wednesday March 23rd. Prosper campaigner David Collyer was our featured guest this week as we dissect the energy behind week 1 of the rampaging Home Buyer’s Strike. We have now flown up the GetUp forum’s charts to number 8 with over 1865 votes in 10 days. This is encouraging! A passionate show about … Read More

Don’t Buy Now Campaign launched

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Home Buyers Strike Called The Dont Buy Now Home Buyers Strike was launched Tuesday to warn prospective property buyers that now is the worst time to buy a house. The state of the housing market is unfurling at a rate of knots. A mexican standoff is being played out between sellers trying to maintain prices and buyers being hounded to … Read More

Introducing …. Earthsharing Canada

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Our good friend Frank de Jong has set up Earthsharing Canada. Check the new look website where you can read Frank’s erudite writings like: Untax Business, Uptax Nature By Frank de Jong Well, the federal political parties are saber rattling again, threatening an election over the corporate tax cuts which will be in the upcoming budget. The Conservatives are sticking … Read More

Earth Based Economics

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“When capitalism started, nature was abundant and capital was scarce; it thus made sense to reward capital above all else. Today we’re awash in capital and literally running out of nature”, Peter Barnes, Capitalism 3.0 “A commons arises whenever a given community decides that it wishes to manage a resource in a collective manner, with special regard for equitable access, … Read More