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# Earthsharing

Opportunity via Earth Rights

## Posts

- [Blog](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/blog-2/) - Investigating the advantage the owners of the earth have over society, driving the wealth gap and sustainability pressures. Remedies revealed!
- [Symphony of Energy](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/10/symphony-of-energy/) - Renegade Economists Show 411 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Symphony of Energy by Renegade Economists on Mixcloud Show Notes And off to the Global Conference on Environmental Tax we go! Interviews with Agime Gerbeti (Author Symphony of Energy) and Sven Rudolph (Kyoto Uni) on
- [Over 90,000 Empty Houses Amidst Housing Crisis](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/06/over-90000-empty-houses-amidst-housing-crisis/) - 20 June 2012 There are 90,700 vacant houses in Melbourne – 5.9 per cent of the total – according to Earthsharing Australia’s 5th annual Speculative Vacancies Report. “Our lazy land use makes a mockery of the drive for affordable housing,” researcher Philip Soos said today. Vacancy hotspots include: Docklands 14.1%, Williams Landing 13.5% and Truganina
- [Inner city vacancies drive urban sprawl, affordability crisis](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/11/inner-city-vacancies-drive-urban-sprawl-affordability-crisis/) - The 2009 I Want to Live Here report reveals how speculative vacancies are overlooked in housing supply analyses. “Inner city suburbs such as Richmond (7.40%), Princes Hill (8.76%) and Flemington (8.83%) had Genuine Vacancy Rates more than five times greater than the REIV’s vacancy rate of 1.4%” stated Earthsharing Australia spokesperson Karl Fitzgerald. “By including
- [46,220 empty homes - the genuine housing supply issue](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/05/46220-empty-homes-the-genuine-housing-supply-issue/) - “With 46,220 properties vacant in Melbourne, the myth we have a housing shortage cannot go on much longer," Earthsharing Australia spokesperson Karl Fitzgerald said today. Earthsharing’s Speculative Vacancies report highlights that tightness in rental stock does not equate to a lack of housing. The much quoted REIV’s 1.7% vacancy rate (Nov 2010) only refers to
- [Speculative Vacancies in Melbourne 2010](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/05/speculative-vacancies-in-melbourne-2010/) - 46,220 empty homes exist in just 64% of Melbourne's residential property. We are constantly told there is a 35,000 housing shortfall. Speculative intent distorts the use of housing into a financial tool rather than a place to live.
- [I Want to Live Here Report 2009](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/11/i-want-to-live-here-report-2009/) - Vacancies in Melbourne Report Andrew Sadauskas EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - Broad Scope: Our research evaluated 652,695 properties across 23 different municipalities in the western, inner, southern, and south eastern suburbs of Melbourne. This represents nearly half of Melbourne's 1,471,155 private dwellings. - Genuine Vacancy Rate: The Genuine Vacancy Rate includes all vacant properties, including those not
- [Speculative Vacancies in Melbourne 2012](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/07/speculative-vacancies-in-melbourne-2012/) - Philip Soos 21st June 2012 Executive Summary It is generally accepted that a crisis is occurring in rental property markets of most metropolitan areas in Australia, including Melbourne. Since 2006, rental prices have increased significantly above the rate of inflation, causing many tenants to experience financial stress. Accordingly, the lack of affordable and available rental
- [Imperialism's Point of the Sword](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/08/imperialisms-point-of-the-sword/) - Renegade Economists Show 556 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Mason Gaffney delivers the detail on Corporate Power and US Imperialism. Hear about an article originally written in the 60’s that got him sacked, had CIA agents swirling around him but still he kept
- [Affordable Housing Underway](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/09/affordable-housing-underway/) - Canberra leads the way on affordable housing, with over 1800 households enjoying huge interest savings on their mortgage. Simon Tennent from the ACT govt discusses
- [Outsourcing Insiders](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/01/outsourcing-insiders/) - Michael Tull from the CPSU gives an insight to the extraordinary cost blowouts that consultants cost our neo-liberal government, an administration adamant budget surpluses are top priority. To think this is the 1st audit of consultancy fees is damning.
- [Owning the Future](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/07/owning-the-future/) - Renegade Economists Show 551 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Greek academic Yannis Tziligakis joins us to discuss the Right to the City movement. If we are to have rights, who should be included? Yannis has a way of words, dropping one-liners such as
- [Privatising Core Government Functions](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/05/privatising-core-government-functions/) - Renegade Economists radio on the privatisation of yet another government function - this time the beloved Victorian Land Titles Office. Learn what happened to costs o/s.
- [All Property is Theft - Clarification](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/01/all-property-is-theft-clarification/) - A radio interview with Cameron Murray on the importance of property right sin a world of corruption. The Coase Theorem, Henry George, upzoning and the global land bubble and a critique of the anarchist statement 'All Property is Theft'.
- [There Goes the Neighbourhood](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/08/there-goes-the-neighbourhood/) - A streetwise show from San Francisco on the life and times of those living on the edge in the face of incredible gentrification pressures.
- [Tax Avoidance Tightening](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/10/tax-avoidance-tightening/) - The Renegade Economists with Ajay Gupta on the OECD Base Erosion and Profit Sharing recommendations. Do these recommendations go far enough?
- [Vacancies up, House Prices Up](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/12/vacancies-up-housing-prices-up/) - Radio interview with the Speculative Vacancies author Catherine Cashmore on why so many empty hoes exist during the housing crisis.
- [Resource War Incentives](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/03/resource-war-incentives/) - The battle for location is everywhere but in economic theory. Phillip Anderson on the economic drivers for war. So simple it's sad.
- [Fever - 9 Days On](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/06/5729/) - A collage of some of my fave recent multimedia clips, telling the story of the fever running though our minds trying to making sense of the world.
- [Housing shortage questioned again](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/08/housing-shortage-questioned-again/) - With recent doubts on Census data winding in the mainstream opinion on housing shortages (down from 228,000 to now just 23,000) we were pleased to have our 5th Speculative Vacancies report written up by Chris Vedelago on Fairfax's Domain blog: A study by Earthsharing Australia estimates there are 90,730 vacant properties around the city, enough
- [Doctors sued for malpractice. Politicians too?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/09/doctors-sued-for-malpractice-politicians-too/) - The Planning Minister commits a planning 101 multi-million dollar mistake in the Fisherman's Bend precinct but few are aware of the cost as we struggle to pay for infrastructure.
- [40% of UK MP's own investment property, 94% in Australia](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/10/40-of-uk-mps-own-investment-property-94-in-australia/) - Jacob Wills joins the Renegade Economists to discuss the state of housing speculation and the insider relationships developed at global conferences such as MIPIM.
- [Recovering Financial Crises](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/12/recovering-financial-crises/) - Akhil Patel on why the next economic cycle is underway. What to look for and why, with commentary on the state of the Chinese, UK and Australian markets.
- [Earth Rights Protest Music](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/01/earth-rights-protest-music/) - The Renegade Economists yearly summer music special featuring 2 shows of the protest music recognising our concern over the commodification of the earth and with it our democratic right to freedom. Thanks to all the musicians. Enjoy!
- [Greek Elections: Rentiers Happy](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/01/greek-rentiers-happy/) - Yannis Tziligakis gives an insiders view on the economists behind the new Greek Syzira government, including Yanis Varoufakis. Will there really be economic reform?
- [Land Price Takes the Gains - Phillip Anderson](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/03/land-price-takes-the-gains-phillip-anderson/) - A live recording from the event Boom or Bust - where are we in the Property Cycle, where Anderson gives insights on the theoretical framework to interpret the business cycle. Stories on a 14 year old tech wiz to the scoop on Olympic economics.
- [Monopoly Rights at $100m p.a](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/05/monopoly-rights-at-100m-p-a/) - The Renegade Economists on monopoly powers and the profits they deliver and the desperate efforts they will go to maintain such profits.
- [Cause and Effect: Value Capture ignored, ICAC Rent Seekers revealed](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/05/cause-and-effect-value-capture-ignored-icac-rent-seekers-revealed/) - The Renegade Economists on the lure of easy profits and corruption when we ignore the advantages some have over others via ownership of the earth. Re-balance it!
- [The Hope Behind Band Aids](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/09/the-hope-behind-band-aids/) - Celebrating 7 years on air, the show tributes Henry George's poetic vision for our equal right to a place on earth in return for the full rights to our labour.
- [Renting from Wall Street](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/07/renting-from-wall-st/) - The Renegade Economists investigate the state of housing from Londons booming market, the standard diversions from vested interests then onto the new frontier of Rental Backed Mortgage Securities via Blackstone Capital.
- [Billionaires Crawling All Over Our Democracy](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/09/billionaires-crawling-all-over-our-democracy/) - The latest Renegade Economists podcast, featuring concern over ICAC, legalised corruption and the incredible re-zoning windfalls driving such behaviour. Then April Bragg (Housing for the Aged) joins to discuss the state of housing, particularly rental.
- [Magic Money Quotes](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/07/magic-money-quotes/) - How the 1% make easy money whilst mainstream critique focuses on money printing, the real owners of the earth walk away scot free
- [Coober Pedy Oil & Gas Rush](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/01/coober-pedy-oil-gas-rush/) - Linc Energy's $20 trillion shale oil and gas find could re-shape Australia's economic and energy based future. The lives of the average Australian could be helped by this bounty we have all been gifted. Even if this unproven find is worth 1/4 of the headline value, the finding must raise questions for Australians about who
- [Adding It Up: Environmental Accounting in Australia](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/02/adding-it-up-environmental-accounting-in-australia/) - Renegade Economists talk to Dr Michael Vardon about the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting
- [Smooth sailing from here on?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/03/smooth-sailing-from-here-on/) - Phil Anderson discusses the economy with Renegade Economists.
- [Passive income the affordability curse](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/08/passive-income-the-affordability-curse/) - Renegade Economists show 303 As broadcast on 3CR on Wednesday 21.08.13. Subscribe to the show Transcript Karl Fitzgerald: Property spruikers, spruikers, spruikers. Today we go into the heart of the battle zone, into one of the biggest property spruiking seminars in Australia. One of 15 tour stops for Dymphna Boholt. Dymphna Boholt: Hey guys, my
- [Community Radio Support!](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/06/community-radio-suport/) - It's Radiothon time and we'd love you to support our radio show - the Renegade Economists. Visit here where you can donate whilst you write down what a terrific show the Renegades is! We need to raise over $600 to keep the show in prime time drive time. We're on the air today at 5.30pm
- [Hudson on China's Export Irrelevance](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/06/hudson-on-chinas-export-irrelevance/) - photo credit: JosephLeonardo Renegade Economists podcast Professor Michael Hudson discusses the G20 plans (austerity for prosperity), natural monopolies as wealth extracting machines and China's possible isolationist future in light of its increasingly useless trade surplus. Listen here Music by Lucky Dragon
- [Zambian Mining Royalties](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/02/zambian-mining-pain/) - Thanks to Jan Speed for this excellent clip. Bryan Kavanagh highlights some of the machinations behind this process.
- [Negative Gearing 92% Ineffective](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/10/negative-gearing-92-ineffective/) - Negative Gearing 92% Ineffective from Real Estate 4 Ransom on Vimeo. Renegade Economists Podcast 257 As broadcast on 3CR, Wed Oct 3rd. The Name of the Game: Philip Soos answers questions from the floor at the Negative Gearing report release. Karl talks about economics as if location matters. Listen here From Philip's report: In 1993-94
- [Neil Chenoweth on Obeid & Murdoch espionage](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/11/neil-chenoweth-on-obeid-murdoch-espionage/) - Renegade Economists podcast #263 As recorded on 3CR, Wednesday Nov 21st, 2012. Listen here Obeid & Murdoch's Corporate Espionage: One of Australia's leading investigative journalists - Neil Chenoweth - is this week's guest. Neil has just released his latest book, Murdoch's Pirates, and is widely regarded as a driving force behind the Murdoch phone hacking
- [The Earth's Worth](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/12/the-earths-worth/) - photo credit: sigmaman In Revenue Sharing - A Piece of the Pie John Cutfeet says: I recently heard an Elder say that we, as the First Peoples, were given resources by the Creator from which we can make a living. He said, “God gave us resources to use from our lands. Our people did commercial
- [The Best of Intentions](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/01/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
- [Sustainability's Transition Decade](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/02/sustainabilitys-transition-decade/) - How can economics assist a carbon neutral future? A holistic reform agenda is needed and here we list the steps required. More than a carbon tax we need levers to assist urban density, $1 magnetic train rides, biochar subsidies etc
- [The Communication in Commons](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/03/the-communication-in-commons/) - photo credit: NomadicLass Renegade Economists Podcast 131 As broadcast on Wed March 10th, 2010 on 3CR Subscribe to the podcast Show Notes: The Communication in Commons: Natalie Pang, Visiting Research Fellow, Nanyang Technology Co Uni (Singapore) discusses the evolution of the digital commons and what access issues we must be aware of. Read more of
- [CPRS - Good Riddance](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/04/cprs-good-riddance/) - photo credit: Martyn Hutchby I wrote this awhile back and never sent it into the ether. Now that Rudd has put the CPRS on the backburner until 2013 (pls bring in the Carbon Tax asap), let's have a look at why so many were against it. CPRS= Corporate Polluters Runaway Subsidy With the heat on
- [Negative Gearing Too Risky? So Are Property Bubbles...](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/05/negative-gearing-too-risky-so-are-property-bubbles/) - 'Working families' KRudd? The joke is on wage slaves when capital gains holds the reins. Yesterday's announcement's that property prices have increased by 20% in the last year must make minimum wage earners wince. When did they receive a 20% wage rise in a year?
- [Caveats and Prejudices](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/05/caveats-and-prejudices/) - photo credit: Thoth, God of Knowledge Tohm Curtis Week #6: Caveats and Prejudices This week I’m going to twist a bit of military wisdom: ‘If the map doesn’t match the ground, the ground is wrong.’ It may be entirely the case that there is systemic bias to my criticism of my courses. For example, I
- [Anti-Gentrification Festival - This Sunday!](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/06/anti-gentrification-festival-2/) - Sunday June 27th Workers Club 3-9pm DIE YUPPIE, DIE! concert & festy fashion jam ($4/$8) Come along & create your own shabby chic clothes using bits of the original Tote carpet (gloves supplied!) while checking out hirsute pole dancer Agent Cleave & listening to some of the best bands in Melbs including Cuba Is Japan,
- [Climate Crescendo](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/09/climate-crescendo/) - photo credit: Pizza527 Renegade Economists Podcast 107 As broadcast on 3CR on Wed Sept 23, 2009. Subscribe here Climate Crescendo: Karl whirs through climate issues from an economics perspective and finishes with Sharna Nolan from Skateistan.org. So so much more to discuss on this topic. Will we write a script one day and time it?
- [For Ransom - the human right to a roof over our head](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/12/for-ransom-the-human-right-to-a-roof-over-our-head/) - photo credit: redjar Renegade Economists podcast 116 As broadcast on the almighty 3CR on Wed Nov 25th Subscribe to the podcast Show Notes: Real Estate 4 Ransom: AJ discusses the 3rd I Want to Live Here report with a staggering number of houses that could hit the market if only speculators were to leave housing
- [FHOG Disease Spreads to Fiji](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/12/fhog-disease-spreads-to-fiji/) - photo credit: Just a Temporary Measure Australia's disastrous first home owners grant has spread in principle to both the US with an $8000 tax credit (rumoured to soon be 'boosted' to $15,000) and now to our Pacific cousins in Fiji with a handout. Sure the American's are giving a tax credit, ensuring that only those
- [Fast Forward News #5](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/09/fast-forward-news-5/) - David Pecotic our resident newshound returns Just ignore it and maybe it will go away ... "There are few institutional structures to achieve co-operation globally on the sort of scales now essential to avoid very serious consequences, warns lead author Dr Brian Walker of Australia’s CSIRO." The solution? Don't Leave Anything To The 'Experts' But
- [Populationist Pressures Unravelled](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/populationist-pressures-unravelled/) - shining a light upon the growing population concern and offering an alternative reform to draconian us-and-them regulations
- [Sprawling Solutions](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/06/sprawling-solutions/) - photo credit: optimal tweezers Renegade Economists Podcast 94 As broadcast on www.3cr.org.au on Wed June 17th, 2009 Subscribe to the podcast by searching for 'Renegade Economists' in the Itunes Store. Please note that last weeks notes weren't included as it was a radiothon special. We still owe $200 if you can pls pls support us.
- [Michael Hudson - Protecting the 1%](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/06/michael-hudson-protecting-the-top-1/) - photo credit: Jesper Särnesjö Renegade Economists Podcast 95 As broadcast on the mighty www.3cr.org.au on Wednesday June 24th. Subscribe to the podcast Show Notes: Protecting the 1%: the grand theft continues as Prof Michael Hudson shines the spotlight on the financial warfare of today. Hear how the $12 trillion financial bailout is non-inflationary and how
- [Growth model fails us in more ways than we can count](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/07/growth-model-fails-us-in-more-ways-than-we-can-count/) - photo credit: Creeper-Sleeper Today we read that Australia's boom era delivered 1000 more homeless people per year. It is a grim picture of how homelessness has remained a serious social issue in Australia over the past decade despite good economic times," one of the report's authors, David MacKenzie, said. "Since the global financial crisis, with
- [Are We Paying Too Much for the Great Australian Dream?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/07/are-we-paying-too-much-for-the-great-australian-dream/) - photo credit: Pink Sherbet Photography Adam Schwab from Crikey: In one of the more remarkable occurrences, residential property, despite macroeconomic indicators to the contrary, has been an incredibly resilient asset class this year. In fact, the “affordable” sector of the property market is trading at record high levels, while auction clearance rates in major cities
- [Fishy Money Fingers](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/07/fishy-money-fingers/) - photo credit: malakins Renegade Economists Podcast 98 As broadcast on the freedom of speech machine at 3CR - Wed July 15th Subscribe to the podcast Show Notes Fishy Money Fingers: Ben Bowman from Food and Water Watch (USA) discusses the Lehman Bros influence in privatising West Coast fisheries - 2000% returns are on the cards
- [Malthus & Population Theory Debunked](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/08/malthus-population-theory-debunked/) - photo credit: Super Is Sunny Author unknown Rev Thomas Robert Malthus (February, 1766 – December 23, 1834), was an English demographer and political economist best known for his pessimistic but highly influential views. Malthus was born to a prosperous family. His father was a personal friend of the philosopher and sceptic David Hume and an
- [Fast Forward News #1](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/08/fast-forward-news-1/) - photo credit: quinn.anya We're lucky to have supporters like David Pecotic flicking news summaries like this our way. I thought it about time we shared them, infact we should start our own e-news bulletin! A series of news snippets you can sample or click through. Big Smoke beats the rest | The Australian [Cities are
- [Recovery! Funny photo](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/08/recovery-funny-photo/) - Recovery! Originally uploaded by ChrisI1024 Lets see what happens at the September correction. The stock exchange 'cash out' month used to be October, last year saw Sept 22 with the Lehman brothers catastrophe. This year some are saying Sept 4th to end the bull run. Please watch Phil Anderson to understand more via Sky News
- [Fast Forward News #3](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/08/fast-forward-news-3/) - photo credit: Corey Tegeler David Pecotic Two great new Australian e-gov mashups: Key Indicators Graph [Over at their Betaworks blog, the ABS has published an interactive graph that can display key indicators such as the unemployment rate, the consumer price index, gross domestic profit, average weekly income, and (most importantly for our purposes) the house
- [The Real Estate Bust of 2010](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2007/03/the-real-estate-bust-of-2010/) - Over 115 people attended this packed event. Phil covered the long term issues like few others can. For more details on Phil's exciting work, check his new website. Copies of the DVD + Powerpoint + Presentation are $20. Order here (credit card preferred). For those interested in the type of comprehensive analysis Phil delivered, watch out for Fred Harrison from the UK, the world's pre-emininent expert on the 18 year cycle. We aree very excited to be touring him in 2008. Fred has many books discussing this issue available from our Prosper bookshop
- [Carbon Taxes to make a comeback](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/02/carbon-taxes-to-make-a-comeback/) - photo credit: Mikko Itälahti The Australia Institute's Richard Dennis makes some key comments in An idea whose time never came. Minister Wong is now arguing that, under her scheme, individuals who lower their energy use will enable the government to reduce the number of permits the following year, effectively raising the cap and allowing individuals
- [Aviation CFO's say tax miners more](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/aviation-ceos-say-tax-miners-more/) - photo credit: Fool-On-The-Hill The Australian Financial Review's John Kehoe reports that: Qantas Airways has called on the federal government's tax review to introduce a new tax on mining companies for the extraction of natural resources to fund a reduction in other business taxes. Due to the subscriber only nature of the website, we can't bring
- [Zimbabwe-like land grabs to escalate in Pacific](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/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
- [Tax Breaks for Mining Companies must stop](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/tax-exemptions-for-mining-companies-must-stop/) - photo credit: Rui Almeida (Portugal) Those who read our recent post on Papau New Guinea will find this important reading. A new report entitled Breaking the Curse: How Transparent Taxation and Fair Taxes can Turn Africa’s Mineral Wealth into Development. The conglomerate of aid agencies behind the report state: For example, Zambia’s mining law allows
- [Cycles, Stats and Set Ups](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/cycles-stats-and-set-ups/) - photo credit: Gustty Renegade Economists Podcast 83 Subscribe to the podcast As broadcast on April Fools Day, 2009 via the almighty www.3CR.org.au Show Notes Cycles, Stats and Set ups - Louis Christopher from SQM Research provides background on the state of the housing market. G20 standoffs, shareholder activism and some thought provoking music as always.
- [Event: Asset Bubbles Forever](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/02/event-asset-bubbles-forever/) - Tuesday March 2nd, 6.30 - 8pm Phil Anderson With land prices increasing $766 a DAY in the December quarter, Phil Anderson will analyse economic prescriptions and asset bubbles. Are bubbles essential for banking liquidity? Who is meant to borrow this credit and for what? Phil Anderson, Director of Economic Indicator Services and author of The
- [Liquid Gold Double Dipping](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/01/liquid-gold-double-dipping/) - photo credit: lrargerich The Weekly Times reports that water traders are double dipping, claiming commissions on both buyers and sellers, something that is illegal in the real estate industry in Water brokers pocket liquid gold An investigation by The Weekly Times has found many brokers have double dipped on commissions, a practice that is outlawed
- [Renegade Economists Podcast 74](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/02/renegade-economists-podcast-74/) - photo credit: pfala Super Power Listen to Nicholas Taylor discuss how the simplest, most powerful thing any activist can do is - have their super invested ethically. Dwell on the stats that reveal how many billions are being sequestered by the landed elite. Arm yourself for change - subscribe to the podcast now! Show
- [Speculators Urged to help Homeless Fire Victims](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/02/speculators-urged-to-help-homeless-fire-victims/) - photo credit: Markus Koellmann Press Release 09/02/09 Earthsharing Australia urges all holders of speculative vacancies to open their doors to the 5000 homeless victims of the bushfire. "Earthsharing Australia joins all Australians in expressing our sorrow at this awful tragedy and join the call for all Australians to give what they can to help the
- [Mirvac: Land is for Hocking, Not Housing](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/02/mirvac-land-is-for-hocking-not-housing/) - photo credit: lrargerich Karl Fitzgerald as published in Crikey 20/02/09 Mirvac yesterday admitted what many affordability watchers know. The housing market is manipulated to suit shareholders over householders. Due to the fear that an $81.4m half yearly operating profit is insufficient, first home buyers will have to pay higher land and housing prices to support
- [The world shuts up shop](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/02/the-world-shuts-up-shop/) - photo credit: chatirygirl Want to arm yourself with more stats on what is happening? One can expect purveyors of local currency, LETS systems, are becoming excited. How can people look after themselves? They need access to land. If only the market system was allowed to correct itself so that land dropped back to affordable levels.
- [The Dangers of Resource Economics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/07/the-dangers-of-resource-economics/) - From the health of the Murray to the clean air politics of Emissions Trading, the news abounds of issues balancing on the crucial understanding of resource economics. Natural resources are unique in that they are the building blocks of life. They also have a limited supply. This makes them incredibly valuable. The source of their
- [The Subprime Primer - Stickman style](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/07/the-subprime-primer-stickman-style/) - With more banks reporting massive write downs this week (Bank of America reported a 41% drop in quarterly earnings), we thought it timely to publish this funny take on how the subprime banking model was supposed to work. Flick through this humorous powerpoint, complete with lively stickman descriptions on how this financial quagmire makes sense/
- [Renegade Economists Podcast 61](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/11/renegade-economists-podcast-61/) - Show Notes - Recorded Wed Nov 5th 1 million people watching him at midnite! Yes We Can Housing demand in a nosedive Darn we didn't get to mention this! About 50 out of 100 houses sold at auction in Melbourne on the traditionally slow Cup weekend, while in Sydney the auction clearance rate crept up
- [Speculating on this perfect life](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/09/speculating-on-this-perfect-life/) - photo credit: thmcmahon Vanuatu was judged the world's happiest nation in 2006. However, with the growing privatisation of land title, their idyllic lifestyle is being carved up and sold off to the highest international bidder. A concerned chief from South Santo, Mack Paiiamaja, has expressed serious concerns regarding massive uncontrolled land speculation and sub division
- [Economic Rehab: Scarcity](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/08/economic-rehab-scarcity/) - Tohm Curtis continues his slightly sarcastic economics 101 series photo credit: technicolorcavalry The most common constraint on fulfillment of wants is time. I cannot write this post, and go to the beach and swim. I have to do one or the other in that same portion of time. There are only so many days I
- [Renegade Economists Podcast 58](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/10/renegade-economists-podcast-58/) - photo credit: TheTruthAbout... You can download the podcast by following these directions Show Notes R58 Recorded Wed Oct 15th Aussie Knowhow - an interview with Agent John, telling it as it is from the street. John is one of the many self taught political economists concerned about the continuing plight of our policy makers and
- [Economic Crisis Over? Dr Michael Hudson comments](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/10/economic-crisis-over-dr-michael-hudson-comments/) - photo credit: Sepperer Markus | www.weltraumsepp.blogspot.com We don't think so. And neither does Dr Michael Hudson in this riveting interview (thanks to Guns and Butter, KPFA radio). Please listen. Forward this on. Hudson sums up the issues behind the credit crunch and the mystery behind the details of the bankers bailout in a damagingly direct
- [Renegade Economists Podcast 59](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/10/renegade-economists-podcast-59/) - photo credit: purpleye photography Join our growing list of renegades by downloading the podcast. Show Notes R59 Recorded Wed Oct 22nd The End of Industrial Capitalism - Professor Michael Hudson slates the US political hierarchy and the bankers bailout. Alice and Karl bounce off this with evidence from WA & China and how lower property
- [Renegade Economists Podcast 60](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/10/renegade-economists-podcast-60/) - photo credit: daviddesign Join our growing list of Renegades by signing up to the podcast Show Notes Recorded on Wed 29th October There's only so much news 1 can watch, the murders, the deceit, the pillaging, the profits...before 1 is compelled to ask why? Have a laugh Lex Wotton - International Day Of Action November
- [The Neo-Yeltsin Administration](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/12/the-neo-yeltsin-administration/) - photo credit: vaschenko Michael Hudson This article appeared in counterpunch. Reality had to raise its ugly head. Barack Obama was elected with overwhelming approval to inaugurate an era of change. And at his November 25 press conference, he said that his decisive victory gave him a mandate to change the direction in which America is
- [Bailing Out the Wealth Gap](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/12/bailing-out-the-wealth-gap/) - photo credit: kimberlyfaye Karl Fitzgerald Around the world, pubs and bars are full of insightful conversations, democracy at work grass roots style, as we try to make sense of the global financial meltdown. 19/10/08 “From neo-liberalism to neo-handouts, the pyramid purveyors know how to baffle the masses” scowled Maxxy. With the financial meltdown moving at
- [Renegade Economists Podcast 67](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/12/renegade-economists-podcast-67/) - photo credit: madaboutasia Carbon Catchcry: this hour long special is our last formal show of the year, with an interview of Anna Rose (Australian Youth Climate Coalition) on Rudd's filthy 5%. Also international guest Fred Foldvary discusses the insides to the GFC and what could be really done if politics was for people not cronies.
- [Renegade Economists Podcast 71](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/01/renegade-economists-podcast-71/) - photo credit: D&J Huber The Melting Social Contract: This show wades through recent economic trends, explaining why the boom bust bubble occurs and how this effects our ability to act as normal, respectable human beings. Also the Holocaust in Gaza and how desperate students have become to avoid paying fees. Show Notes South Pole summer
- [City Life and Country Life](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/city-life-and-country-life/) - by Emily Blyth Early in 2005 I traveled as a volunteer to Thailand for a month to work on a project with students from Melbourne University. The Banana Project (now evolved into the Ripple Effect) has been running for over five years, it is connected with community development groups in Thailand and gives four students, (one student is the translator), the chance to really work within underprivileged communities. During the year, students spend their time fundraising around Victoria (rotary clubs are most helpful in this), then the students travel to Burriram Province in North Eastern Thailand to distribute the money to schools that have submitted development projects that need our funding to run.
- [The Challenge](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/the-challenge/) - Earthsharing Challenge Camp Event Details Participate, Educate, Create! The way society is, we rarely step outside our comfort zones. The Challenge we are offering you is to put yourself in a different environment and see how you adapt. Some could say the Earthsharing Challenge will be a “Reality Tour” where students examine their "Ecological Footprint" in everything they do. Participate: We will be staying at Opoeia in Angahook State Forest over the weekend of Friday October 6-8th. This is just near the seaside town of Anglesea where local leaders have adopted the Ecological Footprint as an environmental objective. “Reduce our impact on the environment for the benefit of all” they say.
- [Farm Land Grab, Managed Investment Schemes & Monopoly Capitalism](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/06/farm-land-grab-managed-investment-schemes-monopoly-capitalism/) - 'Corporate Raiders Eye Rural Australia' drills the The Weekly Times headline (June 18, 2008). With the Macquarie Pastoral Fund having $1billion in it's pastoral investment kitty and PrimeAg having invested $225million since December 07, the 3.8% of Victorian agricultural land in corporate hands is tipped to rapidly escalate. Concerned readers of George Monbiot's Small Is
- [Beware the  HFC!](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/11/a-community-land-trust-for-victoria/) - Renegade Economists Show 566 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes An entertaining workshop at the NENA (New Economics Network of Aus) conference sees Karl & Rayna give their first public presentation of the proposed community land trust. A solid primer for anyone wanting to
- [Land Rent Confessions](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/05/land-rent-confessions/) - Talk about a moral quandry, Karl is walking a fine line and needs your assistance. Join the Renegade Economists as we investigate the challenge of keeping a community.
- [Trusterty with John Emmeus Davis](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/11/trustedy-with-john-emmeus-davis/) - Renegade Economists Show 569 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Holy heck - 4 more weeks until the show goes on hiatus after 11 wonderful years. John Emmeus Davis is the world’s leading Community Land Trust scholar with over 30 years hands-on experience as
- [The Georgist Podcourse](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2019/05/the-georgist-podcourse/) - Karl Fitzgerald's podcourse on the principles of Georgism. How can we juggle both individual rights with community-orientated priorities?
- [Fight for your Mic](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/06/fight-for-your-mic/) - Renegade Economists Show As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes A warm welcome to all our new subscribers. As a student of economics, you will understand that once a year we need to pay our bills, so we can still fight for our mic, for
- [Show Off Economics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/04/show-off-economics/) - Polly Cleveland demonstrates how even in pre-monetary times there was a battle for location, location. Why does modern day economics ignore locational advantage?
- [US Financial Imperialism - Protected by Academic Propaganda](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/06/us-financial-imperialism-protected-by-academic-propaganda/) - Renegade Economists Show 544 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Prof Michael Hudson joins to review his critique of US financial imperialism in light of recent events. From the WB, IMF through to deep state strategy, Hudson is the best in the business at
- [The Drive for Circular Communities](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/11/the-drive-for-circular-communities/) - Renegade Economists Show 567 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Nilmini de Silva and Steve Liaros (Polis Plan) are living the life as e-workers. Imagine a flood risk expert and a planner going undercover as professional nomads, trying to awaken councils and communities to
- [Democracy is .....](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/11/democracy-is/) - Prof Raquel Rolnik joins to discuss the commodification of housing in light of her new book the War on Places. As former UN Special Rapporteur for housing, she is uniquely placed....
- [800 Years on the Charter of the Forest](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/11/800-years-on-the-charter-of-the-forest/) - LabourLand UK's Dave Wetzel joins to discuss our rights to the commons in light of the 800 year anniversary of the Charter of the Forest. What a storyteller!
- [Timeless Battle](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/12/timeless-battle/) - Michael Hudson takes us through the middle ages with the thought - who controls the rent? Landlords or banksters?
- [Winds of Change Hit Paradise Barbuda](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/02/paradise-barbuda/) - A billionaire hooks up with a Hollywood superstar to pounce when Hurricane Irma wipes out the idyllic paradise island Barbuda. They strike to wipe out the communal land law and set up a resort for neighboring tax haven tourists.
- [Rethinking the Paradox of Property](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/05/rethinking-the-paradox-of-property/) - Renegade Economists Show 542 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing: Author Laurie Macfarlane delves into the depths of property rights to reveal the paradox of property. We wade into the UK housing market as core themes to
- [Power Ledger a blockchain](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/08/power-ledger-a-blockchain/) - Renegade Economists Show 506 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Bitcoin is booming and the blockchain technology behind it is being used in innovative ways. David Martin is the Managing Director of Power Ledger, a Perth-based startup using the technology to link surplus solar
- [Popcorn Banking](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/09/popcorn-banking/) - Lindsay David delivers the latest property investor incentives and the light touch the financial industry provides.
- [Banks - Vote With Your Feet](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/09/banks-vote-with-your-feet/) - Renegade Economists Show 458 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes Undercover banker Ashley X discusses the role of public banks, banking coops and the precarious financial system as we delve into the capabilities of an ethical banking system. Now - vote with your
- [Mining the earth, wrecking the local housing market](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/10/mining-the-earth-wrecking-the-local-housing-market/) - Arnold Carter gives an overview of the Port Hedland economy regarding the boom-bust pressures on the community.
- [Corporate Landlords Live](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/02/corporate-landlords-live/) - Renegade Economists Show 477 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes The show in 6 headlines: The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials Into the New Serfs as the 'Temporary Absence Rule’ sees Seattle the new Vancouver for Chinese investors. Britain’s land
- [Foundations for a New Urban Agenda](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/07/foundations-for-a-new-urban-agenda/) - The Renegade Economists on the struggle society has to decipher the pressures record house prices, immigration and inequality are causing. The UN is moving!
- [Hands Up Dont Shoot](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/08/hands-up-dont-shoot/) - An on the spot report from Keillor MacDuff on the harrowing police state unfurling at Ferguson.
- [Poverty, protest and the need for economic reform](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/12/poverty-protest-and-the-need-for-economic-reform/) - The Renegade Economists yearly collage of economic interviews intermixed with various beats n pieces. To earth rights for all we say!
- [Distribution Dangerous for Economists](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/07/distribution-dangerous-for-economists/) - Joseph Sticlitz demonstrates how powerful the Corruption of Economics is with a critique of Piketty in missing monopoly rents.
- [From Resource Rents to Value Capture](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/03/from-resource-rents-to-value-capture/) - A radio interview on the most radical but rational of topics, tax reform for all people, all generations, using the lense of monopoly rents to drive revenues.
- [Platform Rents Policy Shootout](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/04/platform-rents-policy-shootout/) - Renegade Economists Show 436 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes Associate Professor Neil Niman discusses the intellectual foundations to the open source movement as we traverse through economic rights to monopoly power in airports to a policy brainstorm on the elusive Renegade Economists
- [Kinda Chipper](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/05/kinda-chipper/) - Senator Scott Ludlam gives background on the machinations towards the current negative gearing and capital gains tax reforms.
- [Byron Bay - Vision over Regulation](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/07/byron-bay-vision-over-regulation/) - Renegade Economists show 451 as we philosophise over the state of town planning, democracy and rent-seeking, with a creative insight form Byron Bay's John Sparks.
- [The decks are stacked, planet hijacked](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/07/the-decks-are-stacked-planet-hijacked/) - Renegade Economist radio on the hijacking of planet earth via the land game, the property ponzi, whatever you want to call it, the fences of high debt hurt. How to turn it around? Listen.
- [EU's 11 million empty homes a speculators paradise](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/03/eus-11-million-homes-a-speculators-paradise/) - The global ponzi game can be turned around. Start by measuring vacancies then move onto tax reform.
- [Perma-Nomics Possibilities](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/03/perma-nomics-possibilities/) - The Renegade Economists on the synergies between Permaculture and Georgist economics (Geonomics).
- [The Buyer's Pyramid](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/04/the-buyers-pyramid/) - Catherine Cashmore on the Renegade Economists radio show discussing the state of the Australian real estate market. What can affordability pundits do?
- [Real Estate a Billionaire's Charity](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/04/real-estate-a-billionaires-charity/) - Renegade Economists interview April 22nd, 2014 Listen Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Karl Fitzgerald: Michael Hudson – www.Michael-Hudson.com – is back on the 3CR airwaves with an explosive show moving through the incredible wealth gap as outlined by Thomas Piketty. His book is barnstorming the world at the moment. We review it, alongside a bit
- [Lobbyocracy Lurks](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/03/lobbyocracy-lurks/) - Planning Minister Matthew Guy orchestrates re-zoning in secret off grid dinner party, just like Eddie Obeid masterminded in Sydney. Democracy is dead. Lobbyicracy rules...jsut ask Kevin Rudd!
- [Housing Oversupply Evidence Builds](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/07/housing-oversupply-evidence-builds/) - The Financial Review's Ben Hurley has revealed an absolute game changer in the age old housing supply debate: Adjusted by Morgan Stanley researchers to allow for a potential census under count, the 228,000-home undersupply becomes a 341,000-home oversupply. This adds to the imperative for better checks and balances in housing supply analysis. Our recent Speculative
- [Hudson on the Mysteries of Neoliberalism](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/12/hudson-on-the-mysteries-of-neoliberalism/) - Renegade Economists Show 163 As broadcast on 3CR – Dec 8th, 2010 Professor Michael Hudson delves through the murky world of economics, espionage and Wiki Leaks freedoms. The reference to Randall Wray re Bank of America is via neweconomics. Listen here Subscribe to the podcast
- [Speculative Vacancies report release](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/04/speculative-vacancies-report-release/) - Tuesday May 3rd, 7pm Presenter: Tohm Curtis Where: Prosper Australia rooms, 1/27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne Entry: RSVP pls and gold coin entry (to cover drinks and nibbles) For four years we have been pointing to the hidden supply of privately held speculative land as a major issue for the 'nowhere to live' media cycle. Instead
- [200th show - Hudson on the Great Russian Ripoff](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/09/200th-show-hudson-on-the-great-russian-ripoff/) - Renegade Economists Subscribe to the weekly show linking economics to reality in an age of monopoly. Michael Hudson was recently interviewed for our 200th show, following his visit to President Medvedev's Global Policy Forum. The interview has gone viral following a link from Naked Capitalism and Michael's popular site. Listen here Transcription Karl Fitzgerald: Michael
- [Free Riders](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/11/free-riders/) - A clip taken from our film Real Estate 4 Ransom. For those visitors from this weekend's Domain article, feel free to read this or this. Listen here.
- [Cyber Rents](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/12/cyber-rents/) - Renegade Economists Show 162 As broadcast on 3CR – Dec 1st, 2010 Subscribe to the podcast Cyber Rents: IT expert Jim Stogdill discusses how rent rakers curtail innovation and undermine the future of the internet. Listen here Read his stirling article Points of Control = Rents. Jim finishes off the article with this apt quote:
- [Earth Based Economics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/02/earth-based-economics/) - “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
- [Drip Feeding the Market](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/03/drip-feeding-the-market/) - Real Estate 4 Ransom practices are outlined as subsidies and tax havens for the lucky few but workers are taxed with nowhere to hide.
- [Fast Forward News #6.1](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/10/fast-foward-news-6/) - David Pecotic Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Or at least the not completely Untimely ... Prof. Hudson's tour pushed the team - we endeavour to return you to our regularly scheduled program minus technical glitches soon. Web 2.0: data.australia.gov.au - beta [The Gov 2.0 Taskforce has launched a website that brings together around
- [Fast Forward News #4](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/09/fast-forward-news-4/) - photo credit: zoonabar David Pecotic Getting Any Logic from the Property Bulls and Spruikers is Almost an Impossible Task [While the rest of the media and sundry commentariat is busy counting unhatched chickens, Money Morning revisits demand, supply and price and asks why a shortage of bananas is not like a housing shortage.] Renters:Stop Walking
- [Indicators of Distrust](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/09/indicators-of-distrust/) - photo credit: Matti Mattila Renegade Economists Podcast 106 As broadcast on the almighty 3cr.org.au on 16/09/09. Subscribe now Show Notes Indicators of Distrust: we show how Australia really has been in recession, why GDP is a poor measure and hear from the Save VCA program on the economic incentives that led to a couple of
- [Fast Forward News #2](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/08/fast-forward-news-2/) - photo credit: sendungDavid Pecotic Wow - what a vital source of news, varied angles on most current issues - thanks David As Arctic Ocean warms, megatonnes of methane bubble up [More detailed analysis about the increase in the release of methane that had been frozen beneath the Arctic: over 250 plumes of gas have been
- [Funding our Future](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/06/funding-our-future/) - photo credit: publik15 Renegade Economist Podcast 91 As broadcast on the almighty 3CR on Wed May 27th, 2009. Subscribe to the podcast Funding our Future: Age journalist and Co-Editor Dissent magazine Kenneth Davidson discusses deficit misnomers, the French reclaimation of public water rights and the debt trap cost-hello engineered. Show Notes: JOAR - Uranium Corporation
- [Goldman Sachs intrigue](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/07/goldman-sachs-intrigue/) - Author of Inside the Great Economic Bubble Machine, Matt Taibbi speaks on the Goldman issue. Check the Hudson talk on Max Keiser (below) to hear about the million trades per second software stolen from Goldman Sachs and how a chance question reveals the ability of the big boys to manipulate markets. Spice up your life
- [Renegade Economists Podcast 73](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/01/renegade-economists-podcast-73/) - photo credit: sparr0 Inventors or Speculators An interview with James Murray (Centre for Policy Development) skates thru the GFC, highlighting the trillions in goodwill on the books. Also covered is a touch on Obama radiance and how local rents are jacked up pre-uni year to extort the market. What's the solution - join our podcasters!
- [GFC = Good For Corporates](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/gfc-good-for-corporates/) - 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
- [Fiji Coup and Radical Reactions](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/fiji-and-radical-reactions/) - photo credit: yuko_ppp2501 Renegade Economist Podcast 85 Subscribe to the podcast As broadcast on April 15th, 2009 via the almighty www.3CR.org.au. Radical reactions: we talk to Mosese Waqa (Pacific Islands Network) on the Fiji coup. We provide the full extended interview detailing the 4 coups, australian vis chinese diplomatic styles and future war games. Close
- [Australia's Tax Carrot has advantages](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/08/australias-tax-carrot-has-advantages/) - Ross Gittins comments in Our Tax system should be different that the Swan Tax and Transfer review compares Australia's tax take with OECD averages in an insecure light. Our company tax level is the eighth highest in the OECD and property taxes are 9% rather than the 6% average. Lobbying forces are lining up to
- [Bursting the Bubble - SBS Insight](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/09/bursting-the-bubble-sbs-insight/) - Last night's Insight focused on the tragedy unfolding in the housing market and it's effects on the rest of the economy. It was good to see that Housing Supply side issues got some time on air, but again the property lobby had large numbers in the crowd, no NGO's got a guernsey, the omnipresent Ross
- [Credit Focus Masks Deeper Issue](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/10/credit-focus-masks-deeper-issue/) - photo credit: TheeErin Some A$2 trillion has been pumped into banks globally. Last night saw a record amount of commercial paper sold in the US, with the Fed buying some US$60 billion in debt. A record day in the US sharemarket followed. How many more days like that will last until the Fed's kitty needs
- [Harnessing Efficiency to Enable Opportunity](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/12/harnessing-efficiency-to-enable-opportunity/) - Renegade Economists Show 573 - the last weekly show. As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes A collage to see us out in show 573. My first introduction to 3CR was via a late Sunday night show in 1990 called Itch to Scratch. They mixed
- [The End of the Month or the End of the World?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/12/the-end-of-the-month-or-the-end-of-the-world/) - Renegade Economists Show 572 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Frank de Jong (co-founder Canadian Green Party) talks about the fading political currency of policy makers and their inability to meet the demands of inequality alongside rampant right-wing influence. How can a pre-emptive economic
- [The Bounty of Place](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/12/the-bounty-of-place/) - Renegade Economists Show 571 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Dave Giesen (Henry George School of Social Sciences, San Fran) discusses the latest round of efforts to help the homeless. Will a tax on Silicon Valley unicorns to fund homeless services make a lasting
- [Soos on Banking Sharks](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/11/soos-on-banking-sharks/) - Renegade Economists Show 570 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Independent economist Philip Soos (twitter.com/PhilipSoos) is one of Australia’s leading heterodox economists. We welcome him back onto the show to discuss the state of the Australian economy in light of the Royal Commission into
- [Maxxy's Vacant Opportunity](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2007/11/maxxys-vacant-opportunity/) - A rising phenomenon sheds light on the housing affordability crisis. March 2007 It’s called vacant land. It can sit there all by itself whilst the world goes whizzing by it, with new houses being built and small business struggling to make ends meet. It looks innocent enough. Infact it is such a subtle part of the community that most don’t even see it. This meek little piece of the planet can outdo them all though, growing in value by triple the average wage increase. What an amazing effort! Triple what the average wage grows and just one block making as much in lump sums as many small businesses do in a year. How does it do it? It sits back and waits for everyone else to work away, improving the schools and roads. Don’t worry, someone else’s taxes pay for it. It does nothing, but people flock to the area, wanting to live there, pushing its value higher and higher.
- [Banksters Missing Pages](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/11/banksters-missing-pages/) - Renegade Economists Show 565 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Denise Brailey (Banking and Finance Consumer Support Association) discusses the Royal Commission into Banking and what we have learnt, what should be investigated. With it established that banks act as a cartel, Denise elaborates
- [Meetings or Markets?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/10/meetings-or-markets/) - Renegade Economists Show 564 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Geoff Davies (The Little Green Economics Book) discusses the nine things he would change to achieve a new economics system. From regrowth to free markets, MMT to full employment, a lot is covered in
- [The Influece of Gas on Renewables](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/10/its-a-gas-ripoff/) - Renegade Economists Show 563 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Following episode 553 (Another strange sojourn in Australia’s resource and energy policy) we delve deeper into the economic issues behind the gas price gouge with Bruce Robertson (IEEFA). We discuss policies to reduce gas
- [We Live Here, They Own Us](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/10/we-live-here-they-own-us/) - Renegade Economists Show 562 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes “If you are a couple and one of you has to dedicate your entire wage for the next 25 years on the mortgage, what difference is that to slavery?” Mark Hassed takes us through
- [Trickle Down Housing?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/10/trickle-down-housing/) - Renegade Economists Show 561 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes How have we been conned into believing yet again another form of trickle down economics? Such supply side economics in land and housing must be critiqued. The bigger question behind this is why on
- [Geo-Political Games with Prof Michael Hudson](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/09/geo-political-games-with-prof-michael-hudson/) - Renegade Economists Show 560 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Prof Michael Hudson discusses the globalisation fallout as new trading blocs distance themselves from US dollar denominated trade. Will the US be able to maintain its imperialist tendencies in light of these trends? How
- [Sustaining Social Evolution](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/09/sustaining-social-evolution/) - Renegade Economists Show 559 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Author Fred Harrison discusses the 10 year anniversary of the GFC as the only person to have predicted it from as far back as 1987. He warns we must prepare for the next big
- [Golden Threads with Alanna Hartzok](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/09/golden-threads-with-alanna-hartzok/) - Renegade Economists Show 558 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Alanna Hartzok (Earth Rights Institute) joins to discuss the reform agenda in the poverty stricken Baltimore. Our typical freewheeling discussion passes by the GFC, 9/11, the UN, early Christian teachings and the need for
- [A solution 4 times better than the supply side diversion](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/09/a-solution-4-times-better-than-the-supply-side-diversion/) - Renegade Economists Show 557 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes A super-sized edition of the show - celebrating 11 years on air - with a review-like interview of the 127th dinner speech with the Unspoken Alternatives to Expensive Housing report author Dr Cameron Murray.
- [Hong Kong's Caged Housing](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/08/hong-kongs-caged-housing/) - Renegade Economists Show 555 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes It’s time to look at Hong Kong, a nation often touted as the most economically liberated, but yet people live in caged housing. You may have seen the Vox video on this topic? Well
- [Modelling student opportunities](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/08/modelling-student-opportunities/) - Renegade Economists Show 554 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Karl wades into recent state politics before 3rd year Bachelor of Business student Jack Cameron discusses his perspective on economic modelling, life with a HECS debt and the new economics movement. Karl then finishes
- [Another strange sojourn in Australia’s resource and energy policy](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/08/another-strange-sojourn-in-australias-resource-and-energy-policy/) - Renegade Economists Show 553 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Louise Page (Save Westernport) discusses the rush job behind the AGL gas import terminal at Crib Point. Why does the world’s largest gas exporter need to import ….gas? We run through the economic, environmental
- [Assembling alternative pathways to homeownership](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/08/assembling-alternative-pathways-to-homeownership/) - Renegade Economists Show 552 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes This week Emily interviews Ben Keck and Abbie Freestone from Assemble about their latest project in Kensington. We discuss Assemble’s deliberative development model: a boutique take on build-to-rent. For locked-outs struggling to save a
- [Covering the Data Trail](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/07/covering-the-data-trail/) - Renegade Economists Show 550 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Karl reports in on his time in the witness box at the inquiry into the privatisation of the Land Titles Registry. What will the property data gold rush be worth in years to come?
- [Planning to Ignore Strategic Thought](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/07/planning-to-ignore-strategic-thought/) - Renegade Economists Show 548 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Emily Sims is joined by Crystal Legacy (Melb Uni, Dept of Planning) and Nathan Pittman (Planning PhD candidate) to discuss the machinations behind the Western Distributor tunnel. After years of strategic planning, some challenging
- [Our Data, Their Profits](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/07/our-data-their-profits/) - Renegade Economists Show 549 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes On a freezing day Karl digs into the archives with Paraic Lally giving his elevator pitch on all things Georgist. Then we go back to an interview with Silicon Valley commons coder Max Carlson
- [Victoria's Privatisation Agenda](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/06/victorias-privatisation-agenda/) - Renegade Economists Show 547 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes A refreshing change - my colleague Emily Sims hosts this week’s show. Dr Sophie Stirrup (Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University & former Dept of Treasury) provides an insiders account to Victoria’s early 90s privatisation agenda.
- [South Africa's Land Reform Urgency](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/06/south-africas-land-reform-urgency/) - Renegade Economists Show 546 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Peter Meakin (Constitutional Property Rights Foundation) reports on the push for land reform - without compensation for white farmers. He explains how this could occur with a legitimate trade off. Should we rely on
- [The Groundhog Feasts Again](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/05/the-groundhog-feasts-again/) - Renegade Economists Show 543 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes An investigation into some of the PIGS nations as the same trends and traps occur in the race for economic success. Is the new economic model really the highpoint for humanity? And some commentary
- [Campaign potentials for public land selloffs](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/05/campaign-potentials-for-public-land-selloffs/) - Renegade Economists Show 541 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Let’s step into the world of grassroots citizenry with Peter Henderson from the Kyneton Town Square Reference Group and their battle to save the old Kyneton Primary School from yet another public land selloff.
- [Pitchforks & Promises](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/05/pitchforks-promises/) - Assoc Prof Matthew Burke wades into the political economy of changing the way we address the windfall gains landholders enjoy from publicly funded infrastructure. How can we negotiate our ways through these tricky waters?
- [Cheats, fraudsters and darn rent seekers](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/05/cheats-fraudsters-and-darn-rent-seekers/) - How can the same revelations in the Royal Commission into Banking be understood back in JC's time? Some extraordinary outcomes are discussed, revealing the power of monopoly, yet again.
- [Drip Feeding Formula Revealed](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/04/drip-feeding-formula-revealed/) - Renegade Economists Show 537 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Peter Smith, social housing developer and late night rocker, joins to discuss the UK economy, revealing a key formula that developers use to manufacture scarcity and thus profits. Make sure you rock out in
- [Make Me Do It](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/04/make-me-do-it/) - Renegade Economists Show 536 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes New economics and green tech - in this episode Gary Flomenhoft (formerly Gundt Institute) joins to discuss the raft of policy solutions on offer. From cryptocurrency to tiny homes, UBI to CLTs - this
- [Trojan Strike Zone](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/04/trojan-strike-zone/) - Karl discusses the latest gushing 'solution' to Australia's affordable housing crisis - the Build to Rent movement. Could it be a trojan for something even more damaging?
- [Including Community in Economics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/07/including-community-in-economics/) - Why is the impact of communities excluded from economic analysis? Karl takes some choice words from the great Henry George to demonstrate before launching into Vic Premier Daniel Andrews.
- [Speculative Vacancies goes international?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/04/speculative-vacancies-goes-international/) - Stephanie Malcher on Renegade Economists radio discussing the Canadian real estate bubble and its effects on the homeless and why we need a better measure of housing vacancy.
- [Do Revolutions Work?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/10/do-revolutions-work/) - when the king has been toppled, reforms that do not understand the power of these agencies may be quite inappropriate and the revolution is therefore unsuccessful.
- [Hartzok: Socialising land rent and untaxing production](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/04/hartzok-socialising-land-rent-and-untaxing-production/) - Discussing land taxation as the answer to the land rent problem, with Earth Right's Alanna Hartzok.
- [Earth Sharing and New Economics teleseminar](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/04/earth-sharing-and-new-economics-teleseminar/) - Alanna Hartzok delivers the detail on her paper Socialising Land Rent, Untaxing Production. Take a trip through the lost vassals of economic common sense as Alanna unfurls the forgotten wisdom removed from neo-classical economic teachings.
- [Bankers Recipe: Ripe for the Taking](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/03/bankers-recipe-ripe-for-the-taking/) - Renegade Economists Show 534 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Denise Brailey (Banking and Finance Consumer Support Association) spent the week at the Royal Commission into Banking. She reveals the machinations behind the investigation and how the big issues have been curtailed. Her insights
- [Pure Fantasy: Supply Cliche](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/03/pure-fantasy-supply-cliche/) - The Renegade Economists jump into the NIMBY debate - surely there's a sane answer to winding back these pressures ? Answers to reducing the economies of scale big box stores enjoy are provided.
- [Single Mum's Taking on the Government](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/03/single-mums-taking-on-the-government/) - An indepth discussion on the pressures single mums face in a world of authoritarian oversight. It costs a lot to both sides - positive alternatives are discussed with Juanita McLaren (Good Shepherd) and Rayna Fahey
- [The Internet of Ownership](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/06/the-internet-of-ownership/) - A discussion on Platform Cooperatives and the monopoly rents facebook and the like enjoy, with Prof Anthony Schneider and Janelle Orsi. Alternatives are coming.
- [Free Demolition](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/12/free-demolition/) - Renegade Economists Show 421 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes One mistake and your mp3 is history on the podcast feed. Sorry bout that, we are working on it. Listen via Mixcloud instead (below). Braybrook storyteller Lucy tells of a fire at derelict
- [Pocketing Windfalls](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/04/pocketing-windfalls/) - Renegade Economists Show 437 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes Renowned Fairfax journalist Michael Pascoe joins to discuss the big week in economic reform with discussion of Land Value Capture by the Prime Minister and a prominent new network advocating further property tax
- [How to Value a House](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/09/how-to-value-a-house/) - Renegade Economists radio goes into detail on How to Value a House, how derivatives and other exotic instruments are pushing prices beyond reality, then a little on net neutrality and the challenge to Ch31 TV's spectrum.
- [Thundering Tour Times](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/10/thundering-tour-times/) - Karl reiterates the recent tour with insights into the economic warfare witnessed in LA, SF and Detroit.
- [Ross Gittins on the Renegades](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/10/ross-gittins-on-the-renegades/) - Renegade Economists Podcast 150 As broadcast on the 3CR – Wed Sep 1st, 2010 Subscribe to the podcast Ross Gittins: "Economists Wake Up" - One of Australia's most respected economic commentators joins us for a special show analysing the reputation of economists. Listen to the show here Read Ross's regular Fairfax columns Music - Merdeka,
- [Roundtable Concentration](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/03/roundtable-concentration/) - Renegade Economists Show 531 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Ed Dodson joins a roundtable discussion with Emily Sims and Neil Gilchrist on this age of business concentration. Just how fast is the top end consolidating? Issues include market share, patents, coops and economic
- [Michael West on Dorc's Fanciful Figures](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/02/michael-west-on-dorcs-fanciful-figures/) - Michael West jumps in to explain the accounting trickery driving our energy costs, our infrastructure costs. It really defines just how far the corporate culture has gone in undermining democracy.
- [Even Davos is Discussing the Influence of Rentiers on Inequality](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/02/even-davos-is-discussing-the-influence-of-rentiers-on-inequality/) - Can it be true? Even the World Economic Forum is recognising the damaging role of monopoly rents upon inequality. Understand the drivers behind the populist backlash to globalisation, the protectionism inherent in patents and how UBI is a challenging concept for the global south.
- [Stale Property Stench](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/04/stale-property-stench/) - Renegade Economists Podcast 176 As broadcast on the almighty 3CR, Wed 6th April, 2011. Bryan Kavanagh from the LVRG and one of our most active blogs, The Depression, brings his 40 years of experience in the land game to the show. We discuss the Buyers Strike and why now is not the time to buy
- [De Niro's Island Paradise Coup](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/02/de-niros-island-paradise-coup/) - Renegade Economists Show 527 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes We forge ahead deeper into the disaster capitalism tearing at island life on Barbuda, one of the few remaining places on the planet where land hasn’t been commodified and the people thrown into a
- [Imitation Inflation](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/05/imitation-inflation/) - Renegade Economists Show 490 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Stepping into the big league with the CommonWealth Bank’s Snr Economist Gareth Aird on the trail of how land could be removed from the core inflation figures. Is this a valid reflection of reality?
- [Surviving Resource Grabs in the Niger Delta](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/09/surviving-resource-grabs-in-the-niger-delta/) - Life in the Delta with Gorian Abiama from the African Centre for Geoclassical Economics. We discuss resource grabs, sovereignty militia and social desperation.
- [Bent by Nature?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/02/bent-by-nature/) - Catherine Cashmore on the fundamentals of Georgism as told through the lense of economic history and some hard hitting efficiency gains. Outdo the conservatives with this ...
- [Land Grabbing the Poor](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/02/land-grabbing-the-poor/) - The Renegade Economists discuss how the role of land grabbing burdens society with the wash-out long term poverty. All we need is land to look after ourselves.
- [Jaw Dropping Air BnB Research](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/03/jaw-dropping-air-bnb-research/) - Prof David Wachsmuth discusses his alarming research into Air BnB - essentially doubling the vacancy rate (removing housing from rental market). Huge profits.
- [No Land Tax Party of Vested Interests](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/04/no-land-tax-party-of-vested-interests/) - Chris Martin from the Tenant's Union of NSW joins the Renegade Economists to discuss the trickery behind this slippery outfit. Whose interests do they really represent?
- [Budgeted Vision](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/05/budgeted-vision/) - The Renegade Economists on the 2015 Federal Budget. Tax avoidance, foreign investment, infrastructure, company ownership structures, the vision the vision!
- [The ABS a national treasure](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/10/the-abs-a-national-treasure/) - Discussing geo-spatial analysis and the possibilities of enhanced decision making, the AURIN team discuss their capabilities and the exciting future for voters and decision makers.
- [Full Spectrum Dominance](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/04/full-spectrum-dominance/) - Alanna Hartzok provides a systemic analysis of US imperialism and the economic forces that hide the necessary critique. We finish on a positive re the need for a basic income.
- [Buyers Strike Special on air](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/03/buyers-strike-special-on-air/) - 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
- [Don't Buy Now Campaign launched](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/03/dont-buy-now-campaign-launched/) - 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
- [If you owned all the money in the world...](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/08/if-you-owned-all-the-money-in-the-world/) - That was the statement Red Symons of ABC breakfast radio ran as a lead in to our 6.45am discussion this morning. It is also the opening line in the film, attempting to settle those who blame banking and the money system for everything. Listen to the interview with Red promoting our debut documentary Real Estate
- [Pavan Sukhdev & Corporation 2020](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/12/pavan-sukhdev-corporation-2020/) - Renegade Economists 265 As broadcast on 3CR, Wed Dec 5th. Subscribe to the weekly podcast via this itunes link Show Notes: Corporation 2020: Groundbreaking economist Pavan Sukhdev discusses developments in ecosystem services accounting, the need for resource taxation and the push to make CEO's lead on environmental change. Listen to the interview Photosynthesis, pollination and
- [Land Policy Failure Breeding Nationalism](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/04/land-policy-failure-breeding-nationalism/) - photo credit: Maria Gertsovskaya From South Africa to Bolivia to here in Australia, the failure to approach land as a human right rather than a speculative kite is breeding dangerous undercurrents amongst those excluded from 'the property game'. The young firebrand South African ANC youth leader Julius Malema again fired up the masses with these
- [Free Trash of Freeport](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/10/free-trash-of-freeport/) - Renegade Economists Podcast 108 As broadcast on www.3CR.org.au 30/09/09. Subscribe to the podcast. Free Trash of Freeport: We finish off our climate friendly policy overview, then interview Nick Chesterfield (Manukoreri) and Nicholas Taylor (Outcrop) to discuss the immense wealth and destruction flowing from West Papua's $40bn Freeport mine. Photo - Freeport's tailings, thanks SkyTruth. Key
- [Homeless Homes Threatened By Florida Hurricane](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/09/homeless-homes-threatened-by-florida-hurricane/) - FORT MYERS, FL—In what forecasters are predicting will be the largest, most devastating disaster to hit Florida since the national economy collapsed, a Category 5 hurricane neared the Gulf coast this week, threatening thousands of repossessed and long deserted homes. According to meteorologists, the incoming tropical storm could leave as many as 3 million residents
- [Kinglake Rebuilds Post Bushfires](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/06/kinglake-rebuilds-post-bushfires/) - photo credit: avlxyz Renegade Economists Podcast 92 As broadcast on the almighty 3CR on Wed June 3rd, 2009. Subscribe to the podcast by searching in the Itunes Store for 'Renegade Economists' Rebuilding Post Bushfires: Daryl Taylor & Steb Fisher from the Kinglake community discuss issues effecting the bushfire ravaged community in this grass roots recovery
- [Join the Dots...](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/06/join-the-dots/) - photo credit: quinn.anya A few articles to vibe you up on key dinner table topics: Preserving Old Growth Forests is Vital to Saving the Planet - our forests soak up the most carbon in the world - all Victorians should quote this! US Waxman-Marley Bill on carbon trading will eliminate existing EPA authority to fight
- [Detroit Mayor Throws First Brick In Glass-Breaking Ceremony For New Slum](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/05/detroit-mayor-throws-first-brick-in-glass-breaking-ceremony-for-new-slum/) - DETROIT—As community leaders and members of the press looked on, Detroit mayor David Bing proudly hurled the first brick this week in a window-shattering ceremony for the city's newest dilapidated slum. The result of three years of construction work and more than $24,000 in public funds, the rat-infested and crime-ridden development was unveiled to the
- [The Real Estate Bust: how to know exactly what will unfold next](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/the-real-estate-bust-how-to-know-exactly-what-will-unfold-next/) - photo credit: stevendamron Thurs March 19th 2/1 Spring St, Melbourne 6.45 for 7pm Phil Anderson delivers a hard hitting lecture on why we're in the mess we're in and what we can do about it. His information is unique because he is one of the few who studies the inter-relationship between commodity, stock and real
- [World Bank says collapse has arrived](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/world-bank-says-collapse-has-arrived/) - photo credit: World Development Movement The reality is finally hitting. World Bank says collapse has arrived: global economic activity would shrink "for the first time since World War II, with growth at least 5 percentage points below potential". This statement is an important recognition that the world economy and with that the security of our
- [Fairtrade not Bandaids!](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/09/fairtrade-not-bandaids/) - Thurs Oct 7th, 6.30pm, 1/ 27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne Karl Williams Wiki defintion: Fair trade is a financial relationship between producers, sellers, and consumers based on the principle of equity within the exchange of goods. Equity is achieved via creating a platform for trade that is transparent and therefore accountable for the just treatment of
- [BHP Record Profits and 4 Corners Money Pit](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/08/bhp-record-profits-and-4-corners-money-pit/) - photo credit: BK59 Last night saw the media highlight two essential points. On the same day that BHP announced it's fifth consecutive record profit of $17.8 billion for the year, 4 Corners discussed how high land and housing prices in the mining town of Port Headland were strangling the community. Both media pieces overlooked the
- [Renegade Economists Show 56](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/10/renegade-economists-show-56/) - photo credit: thelastminute Summary The Earth Belongs to Everyone - that's the title of the new book by last week's guest, UN rep Alanna Hartzok. She discusses why wage/ rent slavery is no different, if not worse than outright slavery. US dramas and a touch of Garnaut fill the show. Below are the notes host
- [Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/07/recession-plagued-nation-demands-new-bubble-to-invest-in/) - The Onion's satire is often needed in times like these! The current economic woes, brought on by the collapse of the so-called "housing bubble," are considered the worst to hit investors since the equally untenable dot-com bubble burst in 2001. According to investment experts, now that the option of making millions of dollars in a
- [What's Next - Privatising the Shade?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/01/whats-next-privatising-the-shade/) - The Renegade Economists on the continual profiteering from government licensed natural monopolies - this time solar farms. A new economci sytstem is paramount.
- [A Wall Free World](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2018/01/collage-awaits/) - Renegade Economists Show 523 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes We start the year with a collage featuring highlights of last year alongside a few audio samples to keep you guessing. Onwards we forge into 2018! Related Links Captain Fantastic Monbiot on replacing neoliberalism
- [How the World Might Work](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/12/how-the-world-might-work/) - Renegade Economists Show 520 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes One of Australia’s leading economic modellers, Ben Phillips (ANU) joins to discuss his latest research into the housing supply mantra. He provides some illumination to the standard lines. We then delve into the future
- [Clutching at Straws](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/11/clutching-at-straws/) - Karl delves into some of the causes to terrorism and why his friends (well 2 at least) are losing sight of Western hegemonic dominance. Malthus is in the firing line again.
- [The Distinctive Factor](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/11/the-distinctive-factor/) - Banking reform is vital. But is banking advocacy centred on the cause or the effect? Guest Lindy Davies asks some hard questions of those who live to bank bash.
- [Zero Government](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/10/zero-government/) - Renegade Economists Show 513 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Prof Michael Hudson steps into a neo-con future to position where society could be in years to come. Just why are the Lloyd Blankfein’s (Goldman Sachs CEO) of the world so confused about the
- [Grand Final Day for geeks](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/11/grand-final-day/) - Karl reveals just how high land values increased in the last year. As the biggest component to any economy, the correct settings are vital for equity, affordability and growth.
- [Trickled On Times to Cease](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/10/trickled-on-times-to-cease/) - Bryan Kavanagh adds his weight to the growing momentum to rid ourselves of neoliberalism - who wants to be trickled on anyway?
- [Inequality of One GPS location](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/10/inequality-of-one-gps-location/) - Jon Flobrant Renegade Economists Show 512 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Karl delves into the inequality issue by looking into two recent reports on the topic. What is truly driving inequality? Some shocking after-effects of the tax loopholes are being felt by the
- [All the Advantages in the World](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/09/all-the-advantages-in-the-world/) - Just how far is the level playing field tipped to favour property (read land) investment? We run through an extensive list of advantages whilst suggesting a fairer alternative.
- [An Economic Thriller](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/09/an-economic-thriller/) - Ed Dodson gives an insight to the changes in US banking from his position inside Fannie Mae prior to 2006. Are monetarists cornered by low interest rates?
- [Follow the Queen's Lead](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/09/follow-the-queens-lead/) - Renegade Economists Show 508 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Karl celebrates 10 years on air before delving into a revelation that the Queen is a Georgist. Listen to how she behaves. Now dear landlord - follow her lead! Give him a 10th birthday
- [The Big Shift](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/08/the-big-shift/) - Deirdre Kent joins the Renegade Economists podcast to discuss the need for the next economic system. Core monopolistic reform of land and money are keystones in her new book.
- [Surprise! Collusive Cycles Coerce Commuters](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/08/surprise-collusive-cycles-coerce-commuters/) - Renegade Economists Show 505 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Commentary from the World’s Most Liveable City and how neo-con analysis overlooks the biggest issue. How does that sort of oversight effect Karl’s commuter polluter friends on the Cannonball run-like Calder freeway? Bid rent
- [Geotopia's Surplus](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/08/geotopias-surplus/) - Jeffrey J Smith joins to discuss the state of sci-fy's blinkered ideology and how his fresh perspective could give people hope in a world of despair.
- [Uncomforting Politicians](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/08/uncomforting-politicians/) - Karl takes us through the latest policy fraud as housing pressures continue to escalate, such that a homeless protest camp gains national media exposure.
- [A Magnificent Fraud](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/07/a-magnificent-fraud/) - Energy economist Chris Cook discusses the distortions that commodity speculation is placing upon our wallets. A real fireside discussion with a genuine pioneer.
- [Rent-Seekers Responsibilities](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/07/rent-seekers-responsibilities/) - Fred Harrison on the state of humanity's challenges. He presents a case for greater responsibilities to be recognised by land holders.
- [Beyond the 1% - Fred Harrison](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/04/beyond-the-1-fred-harrison/) - Harrison hits hard on the endemic failure of the economics profession to decipher reality. From human rights to removing society from analysis, there is much to listen to!
- [Blood Boils](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/06/blood-boils/) - Renegade Economists Show 497 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes The multimedia megaphone comes out to play with clips from Grenfell Tower, the ongoing AirBnb disparity, Australian house prices up $300 per day with Andrew Leigh and a visit taking us way back to
- [The Most Important](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/06/the-most-important/) - Renegade Economists Show 496 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes The 3CR resistance needs your support. It's radiothon time, so dig in and throw a little our way. Donate here, referencing the show. Thank you! Karl throws in the highlights alongside the beckonings. Cheers
- [Bioprospecting the Future](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/10/bioprospecting-the-future/) - Renegade Economists radio with Dr Anne Poelina (Majala) and Prof Natalie Stoianoff on the privatisation of genes, plants and culture.
- [The City as a Commons](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/02/the-city-as-a-commons/) - Dr Jose Ramos on why the online community is steaming ahead creating a world without waste or monopoly.
- [Real Estate Dynasty](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/06/real-estate-dynasty/) - Renegade Economists Show 395 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes No wonder the Abbott government support the bubble. Not only do politicians own $300m in property holdings, but Joe Hockey is from a dynasty of real estate agents. The most important show of
- [China Turns Over](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/08/china-turns-over/) - Renegade Economists radio on the role land turnover has played in the China's economic calamity.
- [BoomBust - Do the Math](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/03/boombust-do-the-math/) - Lindsay David on the risky nature of current policy settings here in Australia, covering China, the mining boom, currency wars and more.
- [Petition for Affordability](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/03/petition-for-affordability/) - The Rudd Government has reviewed the tax system. The Henry Review came out strongly in favour of capturing economic rents for the common good. Read our analysis of the report here and here. The Rudd Government has written off any serious reforms to issues relevant to housing affordability. Why tax $285bn from people daring to
- [Warning: Not For The Faint-Hearted!](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/04/warning-not-for-the-faint-hearted/) - I have a most awesome idea for a horror flick. It’s a sure-fire winner. I’m gonna make a bloody fortune. Already Australia is an ideal location for horror movies. We’ve got all the right elements, plenty of semi-naked youths wandering around aimlessly at night off their trolleys (bless ‘em), little or no mobile coverage in
- [Deriving Value](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/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.
- [Geonomics = New Economics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/geonomics-new-economics/) - photo credit: h.koppdelaney Scott Baker writes in OP-Ed News There are many forms of capitalism. What we have right now is bubble capitalism, whereby a new bubble in some non-manmade resource (oil, land etc.) is used to speculate enourmous sums to a very tiny minority of early investors. This is also Ponzi Capitalism. Or, perhaps,
- [Renegade Economists Podcast 73](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/02/renegade-economists-podcast-73-2/) - photo credit: TheAlias Anarchy, Liberty and Austrian Economics Fred Foldvary is questioned on his development of unique theoretical hybrids - Geo-Libertarianism, Geo-Anarchism and Geo-Austrian economics. In short - a right to the worth of the earth. What's the solution - join our podcasters! Show Notes This weeks heat wave reminded us all of the frailty
- [Web Neutrality: Black Screens](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/web-neutrality-black-screens/) - photo credit: Nicholas Gray Renegade Economist Show 80 as broadcast on www.3cr.org.au on Wed March 11th Black Screens: Brenda Wallace from the Wellington activist community discusses kiwi government tactics to reduce internet freedoms. Karl is back from NZ and whips through the growing media storm we are building with co-host Alice Bleby. Dont forget Speed
- [Privateering the Commons](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/05/privateering-the-commons/) - photo credit: Peter Blanchard Renegade Economists Podcast 88 Subscribe to the podcast As broadcast on the almighty www.3cr.org.au on Wed May 6th. This week we discuss the frontiers of privatisation - from DNA to deserts to even the use of words! We also interview Mark Wakeham (EV) & Peter Campbell (Green Living Pedia) about Victoria's
- [Game of Mates Rates](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/06/game-of-mates-rates/) - Renegade Economists Show 495 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Dr Cameron Murray (Renegade Economists' Glossary Here's the Twitter and watch #LVT, #commons, #rentier. Share with your friends, or if you could, provide an itunes review for the show. Thankyou!
- [Australia's Economic Growth Gimmicks](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/06/australias-economic-growth-gimmicks/) - Professor Michael Hudson joins to discuss the easy tricks a nation can pull to pump growth rates and keep their electoral chances high.
- [Public Banking Hawks](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/07/public-banking-hawks/) - Dr Liz Elliot tees off on the state of banking rights and how far the monetary system is pushing society. Then something even more radical!
- [Cash Economy Influence on Property](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/04/cash-economy-influence-on-property/) - The Renegade Economists investigate the economies of India and Argentina in the face of their largely cash economies and currency controls?
- [Rezoning Routine Corruption](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/06/rezoning-routine-corruption/) - Cameron Murray resents his landmark methodology on linking developer relationships to an amazing coincidence - favourable land rezonings. Essential listening.
- [Guardians of Intent](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/11/guardians-of-intent/) - Renegade Economists Show 416 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes A broadcast of the Quarter Acre panel: ‘On the Home Front: Where is our Great Australian Dream? featuring Moreland Cr Meaghan Hopper, artist Jessie Scott and the guy writing in 3rd person. Image
- [Silicon Valley Fables](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/01/silicon-valley-fables/) - KMO from the C-Relam podcast critiques SIlicon Valley dreams on the Renegade Economist radio show
- [Policy Learnings and Yearnings](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/02/policy-learnings-and-yearnings/) - Warwick Smith (Per Capita) joins the Renegade Economists to discuss recent Australian economic history and what we learnt from the last recession.
- [Big Tek Future reform](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/03/big-tek-future-reform/) - Max Carlson joins the Renegade Economists to discuss the role of Big Tech and the issues that come with data retention, carbon emissions from data centres, robotics, voting machines
- [Age of Monopoly](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/04/age-of-monopoly/) - Renegade Economists Show 387 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes A reprise of the last 4 weeks shows with snippets from Michael Hudson, Fred Harrison, Alanna Hartzok and Phil Anderson. Karl reinforces some of the central themes in this age of monopoly. Age
- [Haven's for the Have's](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/12/havens-for-the-haves/) - photo credit: ManojVasanth Renegade Economists Podcast As broadcast on 3CR radio on Wed Dec 2nd Subscribe to the podcast Show Notes: Havens for the Have's: Dr Gregory Rawlings (Uni of Otago, NZ) discusses the history of Tax Havens and how the G20 reforms will effect them. Make sure you read Dr Rawlings excellent piece on
- [The Importance of the Land Ethic](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/12/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 Valuable Earth](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/12/this-valuable-earth/) - photo credit: marc kjerland Renegade Economists Podcast 118 As broadcast on 3CR on 09/12/09 Subscribe to the podcast Show Notes This Valueable Earth: Gary Flomenhoft discusses his exciting new report quantifying the value of Vermont's minerals, forestry, fisheries, internet, EMS & Land amongst many other resources. Arm yourself with these vital stats! Valuing Common Assets
- [Henry Review & Mining Magnates: Please Note 'Commonwealth'](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/05/henry-review-mining-magnates-please-note-commonwealth/) - photo credit: s_mestdagh The gloves are off in the battle between the people and the mining magnates. Today Swan admitted the 40% Resource Super Profit tax is not set in stone. This was code for 'come buy me a coffee and let's see what we can do about it'. "We've outlined the design of the
- [Artists sick of living on borrowed time & borrowed land](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/06/2512/) - The Anti-Gentrification Festival, held in conjunction with Craft Cartel, kicked off on Sunday at The Birmy. Highlights included a talk from Earthsharing’s Karl Fitzgerald about land tax reform, a highly professional lagerphone making workshop directed by Alica Bee (she was colour coordinating the bottle-caps, this lady takes her lagerphone making VERY seriously) and a surprise
- [Land Value Capture for Infrastructure](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/08/land-value-capture-for-infrastructure/) - How new trains, trams add value to local land values and why this publicly funded upkick should be recycled back to government, rather than left dangling for political insiders to speculate upon.
- [Recent Renegade Economists podcasts](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/11/recent-renegade-economists-podcasts/) - photo credit: RickC With a gammut of new reports, campaigns and the vortex continuing from the Hudson tour, my posting has had to take a back seat. Here is some detail on recent shows. Subscribe to the podcast hear about the worth of the earth at a time of your choosing. Show 116 - Miner's
- [Asset Bubble Tears in Florida](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/asset-bubble-tears-in-florida/) - Watch the above and understand why this knowledgebase is so important! We predicted this downturn. Economists shouldn't be thrown in the same basket case category as weathermen. The anglo-sphere's reliance on bailout economics will only ensure that future asset bubble tears occur. This is an absolute tragedy and undermines the freedom that so-called democracy/ lobbyocracy
- [FHOG Goes International ;(](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/05/fhog-goes-international/) - photo credit: Hamed Parham The First Home Owners Grant nightmare continues, with elements of it borrowed and extended by the American HUD. Young US home dreamers will suffer like we have: Two new applications of the federal tax incentive for first time homebuyers - allowing them to use the $8,000 credit for down payments and
- [Challenge Camp Photos](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/10/challenge-camp-photos/) - A picture tells a thousand words! Charlie interviews Margaret McDonald (ANGAIR) A treehouse discovery on bushwalk Students asking the tough questions The Earth Share game - who wins? The team prepares questions at the coal face The Sunday sees Alcoa under the microscope from beyondzeroemissions.com
- [2007 True Cost Economics Forum](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2007/06/2007-true-cost-economics-forum/) - Friday July 20th "Economics - the fast track to Sustainability" Free RSVP necessary True Cost Economics is an economic model that seeks to include the cost of negative externalities into the pricing of goods and services. Products and activities that directly or indirectly cause harmful consequences to living beings and/or the environment should be accordingly taxed to reflect the somewhat hidden costs. Natural resources need to be at the centre of our thinking, not wriiten off as an 'externality' or mined for exorbitant profits. The 2007 TCE Forum will feature Frank De Jong, leader of the Ontario Greens (Canada). He is an expert on environmental economics, having coined the term 'the invisible green hand' of market forces. Frank has over 20 years experience in Canadian elections and will bring a balance of political know-how and economic theory. As Frank says "Let the market do the hard work for us in changing our thinking towards environmental responsibility". Economics needs to direct the behaviour of consumers towards looking after the planet. Is Carbon Trading enough? A new economic paradigm is needed to ensure a liveable planet for future generations. It is time to discuss and plan for this evolution. Frank De Jong will give his positive keynote "The Invisible Green Hand V the Time Famine", then 3 panels will follow: Policy Pathways: Carbon Trading v Carbon taxes. A crucial point in time demands we make the correct decision. Cameron Neil (Fairtrade Labelling ANZ) Amanda McKenzie (Australian Youth Climate Coalition) Tom Curtis (Earthsharing Australia) Policy Possibilities: What are the cutting edge policy options? Also, the practical examples of effective green economics at work. David Spratt (Carbon Equity) Donna Lorenz (Maunsell Engineering) Adrian Whitehead (Beyond Zero Emissions) Policy Makers: What do the politicians see as possible and pragmatic? Is it genuinely possible to make policy that will stop runaway climate change? Eg, co2 below 550eppm Senator Lyn Allison – Leader of the Australian Democrats Evan Thornley – Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier (ALP) Dr Richard Di Natale – Lead Senate Candidate – The Greens 15 minutes question time will follow each panel.
- [2007 TCE Report](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2007/08/2007-tce-report/) - This year's True Cost Economics forum saw both young and old dig deep within the pros and cons of carbon trading. Keynote guest speaker Frank de Jong gave a compelling presentation on the importance of getting green Economics right. "We need to charge at the point of source so that we green the entire manufacturing process". Carbon taxes over trading was his perogative, with tax shifting ensuring . Visit Frank's Tools of Sustainability Tour report, including extensive multimedia page to download movies of talks and hear radio interviews. Next was the politicians panel - 'what do they see as possible and pragmatic'. The Greens Richard Di Natale said that the new Howard Governments Carbon Trading policy was a Claytons scheme - the scheme you have when you don't have a plan - no targets, no objectives. Permits needed to be sold, not given away. Senator Lyn Allison (Democrats) snuck onto stage and soon jumped into the heart of the discussion by talking about the need for a number of Trading systems, including an Energy Efficiency Trading System, promoting financial incentives for manufacturers to produce energy efficient goods. Then we had the youth panel on Policy Pathways, where Siska Waddington (SKM) gave a pragmatic response discussing the need to go with Carbon Trading, as Carbon Taxing sets no limit to the total amount of carbon. Carbon Trading incorporates sinks and offsets and gives us an objective. Also, the decision to go with Carbon Trading over taxes had already been made. This created some controversy as the view for a carbon tax was challenged. Well done Siska! The last panel looked at the Policy Possibilities, where David Spratt (Carbon Equity) delivered a devastating presentation on the perils we face. He proposed that this urgency requires the need for a Carbon Rationing system. It certainly got the attention of the crowd! Donna Lorenz (Maunsell Engineering) stated that the carbon polluters, the smokestack industries, are hurting agricultural and rural industries that face the force of extreme weather ie recent floods in Newcastle. Adrian Whitehead from Zero Emissions Network finished off with a positive interpretation of policies making a difference. Included in this was the need for more localised communities, hinting at Frank's desire for walkable communities linked by rail. These presentations were so good that we have made them available for a short time: Frank de Jong's multimedia page (radio, TV footage) David Spratt's Why we must ration the future Donna Lorenz's Climate Change policy responses Adrian Whitehead's Climate Change Good Policy Check the True Cost Reading page and keep informed with Earthsharing events by
- [Housing Affordability Film Comp Screening Event](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/11/housing-affordabililty-film-comp-screening-event/) - When: Wednesday 3 December 2008, 7pm to 9pm. Where: The Order, Level 2, 401 Swanston Street, Melbourne. Cost: Free. The screening of The 'I Want To Live Here' short film competition will be an event of great importance. Here finally young people will be able to tell their story of the ludicrous situation that sees
- [I Want to Live Here Film Comp Winner](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/12/i-want-to-live-here-film-comp-winner/) - I Wanna Live Here - Anna Brownfield Director Anna Brownfield won the first I Want to Live Here film competition. Standing room only saw a positive atmosphere as we listened to comedian Courtney Hocking, heard a few Earthsharing spiels and then saw some killer films. We were genuinely impressed with the quality and say a
- [Scalpel the Youth](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/05/scalpel-the-youth/) - Renegade Economists Show 491 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes It’s time for our our yearly budget analysis with David Collyer to discuss the latest round of political economy. Does the economics get in the way of the politics or what? $30,000 for first
- [Deviating from Life's Blinkers](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/04/deviating-from-lifes-blinkers/) - The Renegade Economists on Australia's housing affordability cacophany and how close we are getting. Even a visit to State Treasury this week about THAT issue!
- [Instinctual Sharpenings](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/04/instinctual-sharpenings/) - Renegade Economists Show 488 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Author of Biohistory, Jim Penman (CEO Jims Mowing), joins to discuss his analysis of the rise and fall of civilisations. We discuss the biological and behavioural underpinnings to society and how environmental factors can
- [Corruption, Transparency & Traction](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/04/corruption-transparency-traction/) - Mark Zirnsak from the Tax Justice Network discusses the ease with which corrupt money can be channeled out of a country and into real estate with no questions asked.
- [Economic Effects of Air BnB in Melbourne](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/03/economic-effects-of-air-bnb-in-melbourne/) - Renegade Economists Show 484 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes As a follow up to last week’s show investigating the effects of Air BnB on NY’s gentrification, it’s time to look into what’s happening here in Melbourne. Just how much of Melbourne’s possible rental
- [Home Makers](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/03/home-makers/) - The Renegade Economists podcast trawls through the media blizzard surrounding affordable housing, vacant housing and the policy fraud that follows.
- [The Feminisation of Poverty](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/03/the-feminisation-of-poverty/) - Rayna Fahey takes the reigns at the Renegade Economists radio show to discuss with Juanita McLaren the challenges of life. Who values childcare?
- [UN Stamp of Approval](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/03/un-stamp-of-approval/) - The Renegade Economists investigate the battle for the LCD's mind as the UN gives prominence to our leading report.
- [Rental Tentacle](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/02/rental-tentacle/) - Akhil Patel discusses the pressure the London housing market faces with his trademark positive view on how we can dig ourselves out of the pressure pit.
- [Homeless Haranguing Misses Systemic Failings](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/01/homeless-haranguing-misses-systemic-failings/) - Meg Mundell discusses the plight of newly floated homeless policy amidst ignorance of the systemic failures of neoliberalism.
- [Controlling Property Interests](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2017/01/controlling-property-interests/) - Can property interests be controlled ? How are our rights to a place on earth challenged by this meddling influence to genuine freedom?
- [Rent-Seekers Revealed](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/12/rent-seekers-revealed/) - An investigation into the depths of Australian rent-seeking culture, of insiders bribing their way to billions. A solution is closer than the pitchforks!
- [Surveying the Top End of Town](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/12/surveying-the-top-end-of-town/) - John Jamieson is a wise ole Aussie telling it as it is during a lifetime of working for some of the wealthiest people on the planet. The commodification of the earth is key.
- [City Deals, Value Creation](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/12/city-deals-value-creation/) - Renegade Economists Show 468 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Prof Peter Newman (Curtin Uni Sustainability Policy Institute www.curtin.edu.au/research/cusp/) discusses the return of the robber barons. Can they build railway ethically and at the lowest cost to the community? Or will the accompanying property
- [Rental Culture](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/11/rental-culture/) - Chantal Roberts from Shelter WA discusses housing pressures in Perth and the need for a better rental culture.
- [Trump's Real Estate Rorts](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/11/trumps-real-estate-rorts/) - Renegade Economists Show 466 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes The race is on to trace Trump’s real estate loopholes and the possible handouts he will deliver for fellow rent-seekers. However, there are already so many that enable rentiers to avoid paying anything back
- [8 Unexpected Outcomes of Georgist Economics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/11/8-unexpected-outcomes-of-georgist-economics/) - Could a policy switch address some of the most pressing needs on the planet? With the world's most powerful property mogul about to assume the Presidency, there has never been a more important time to understand Georgism.
- [Campsite Perspectives](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/11/campsite-perspectives/) - UK chemical engineer Gary the mad cyclist joins investment banking lawyer Nige to analyse the ways of the world from Brexit to the TPP, the mining tax and treatment of local communities.
- [Hudson: Unearned Incomes over Community Cohesion](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/10/hudson-unearned-incomes-over-community-cohesion/) - Michael Hudson on the power of the financial elite to sculpt tax laws through to our very vocabulary such that we cheer on the resultant inequities.
- [Loophole of the Week](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/10/loophole-of-the-week/) - The Renegade Economists demonstrate how important it is to share the rising value of location, location. The immense economic history to successful city's development is then compared to current day Australian experiences.
- [Peer Trading, Cassowary Conservation](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/10/peer-trading-cassowary-conservation/) - This week's Renegade Economists podcast discusses the benefits of groupthink to share trading. Then we discuss the importance of Cassowaries to rainforests.
- [Kanjini's Part of the Solution](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/09/kanjinis-part-of-the-solution/) - Karl discusses with the main organisers the potential of this exciting intentional community - it's just so revitalising to meet these people doing good things!
- [Swagman in the Living Room](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/09/swagman-in-the-living-room/) - Pirate Rick joins the Renegade Economists to discuss his role as 1 of the last remaining Swagmen - those nomadic commoners roaming the land
- [Covering Their Tracks](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/08/covering-their-tracks/) - Renegade Economists Show 456 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes Respected Land Valuer Ted Gwartney discusses the importance of land valuation and LVT in the context of hereditary land title (code for beneficiaries of genocide). Karl then launches into the latest developments by
- [Land Positives](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/08/land-positives/) - Renegade Economists Show 453 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Who wins, who loses - how to use land for the greater good. Today we have two contrasting views - one with Cam Murray sports commentating the rapidly changing landscape of West End, Brisbane.
- [Boom Bust Energy Battleground](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/08/boom-bust-energy-battleground/) - Renegade Economists Show 455 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes Broadcasting from the Mackay Environment Centre, Peter McCallum & Patricia Julian provide insights on the major challenges to their community in the face of the coal, sugar cane, land clearing and Great Barrier
- [Community Led Housing](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/08/community-led-housing/) - Renegade Economists Show 454 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes Karl tours through the upswell of community organising surrounding the need for affordable housing. The show visits Oakland, NY and the UK as we round up recent Community Land Trust themes. *Apologies, there
- [UK enclosures, Australian convicts](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/07/uk-enclosures-australian-convicts/) - Renegade Economists Show 452 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes We start with the catalyst to what could be Australia’s first Community Land Trust, Kelvin Daly from the Brunswick Eco Village. Exciting. Then we talk to Colin Cook about the pressures of UK
- [From Eden to Eternity](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/07/from-eden-to-eternity/) - Renegade Economists Show 447 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes Karl has just begun the 6 month trek around Australia. As he gets his wheels going, a highlights real of interviews with Saul Eslake, Michael Pascoe (Fairfax), Neil Niman, Jesse Hermans, Karl Williams
- [Tax Havens: Lawyers over Economists](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/06/tax-havens-lawyers-over-economists/) - Renegade Economists Show 444 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes Dr Terry Dwyer delivers a lawyers versus economists insight into the evolution of tax havens. Is the onus on the state or the entrepreneur - who is to blame for base erosion? A
- [Man Your Battlestations](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/05/man-your-battlestations/) - Karl Fitzgerald comments on the growing media presence of deep seated economic reform re negative gearing and capital gains tax reform.
- [The Price of .... Looking the Other Way](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/05/the-price-of-looking-the-other-way/) - The Renegade Economists on the cost of renting in terms of income taxes, rent paid and capital gains foregone. Couldn't we collapse all 3 into one?
- [Double the Cost - Private over Public](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/05/double-the-cost-private-over-public/) - Kenneth Davidson (The Age) joins to discuss the debt issue with our Federal Budget and how this emanates through to the states. Does it have to be this way?
- [Getting it Done?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/04/getting-it-done/) - The Renegade Economists investigate the Victorian budget. Thankfully we capture some of the increasing property bubble for public finance.
- [Launch Housing Rights](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/04/launch-housing-rights/) - Karl Fitzgerald on the Georgist news, rolling through our appearance on the Project, the latest discussions on vacant housing and Max Keiser and demurrage.
- [Harrison's Traumatised Society](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/06/harrisons-traumatised-society/) - Author Fred Harrison interviewed on his book about how the cheating nature of wealth creation has delivered a traumatised society. Listen to understand why economics no longer relates to reality.
- [The German Housing Mystery](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/02/the-german-housing-mystery/) - Two recent podcasts on german housing - have they escaped the global land ponzi game or has their turn just begun? The economic history of Marx, List, Fleurscheim & Gesell is discussed in this wide ranging discussion
- [SLF Wrap](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/02/slf-wrap/) - Over 90,000 people at the festival dominated by positive people - the save the world mob. Here's our take on the many chatterings in the world of sustainable economics.
- [Land, Capital and Change](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/02/land-capital-and-change/) - Frank de Jong on the challenge to policy makers that confusing land with capital entails. We cover Greece, the falling price of oil, carbon taxes and the need for Land Value Taxation.
- [The future of carbon trading](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/02/3468/) - Renegade Economists interviews Nic Francis Gilley of Cool NRG about the future of carbon trading and sustainability.
- [Hudson - Looking at the economic changes ahead](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/03/3507/) - Renegade Economists talk to Dr. Michael Hudson on the changes for the year ahead.
- [Australian Property Market Connundrum](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/03/australian-property-market/) - Dr Gavin Putland and David Collyer look at the future of the Australia property markets, changes in Victoria and extra segment on the Cyprus bailout.
- [Community Land Trust Momentum](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/08/community-land-trust-momentum/) - photo credit: Carly & Art Renegade Economists Podcast 99 As recorded on the almighty 3CR, Wed July 22nd Subscribe to the podcast Community Land Trust Momentum: This week we talk to Dr Louise Crabtree about Community Land Trusts and the growing groundswell of support. Alice is back and we talk about Powershift, climate and everyday
- [How to Fight Climate Change Economically](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/05/how-to-fight-climate-change-economically/)
- [Pumped Money Supply - No Wonder Oil Peaks](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/09/pumped-money-supply-no-wonder-oil-peaks/) - With oil surging $15 overnight to record levels for a single day's trading, one wonders if economic theory is understood by Paulson's panickers. With US$247 billion pumped into the global banking system over the last week by the world's central banks to assist liquidity in the short term money market, one wonders why the US
- [Speculative Vacancies Report release](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/06/speculative-vacancies-report-release-2/) - Thursday June 21st, 6.30pm Presenter: Philip Soos Prosper rooms, 1/27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne RSVP - gold coin donations Exciting young researcher Philip Soos is set to release our 5th Speculative Vacancies report. In the past, this report has been a lonely voice shining a light upon the lazy use of land in prime locations. Phil
- [Property Options for Some](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/10/property-options-for-some/) - The Renegade Economists on yet another tool to make money in your sleep out of real estate. perfectly legal whilst our politicians do little.
- [Always New Ways](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/01/always-new-ways/) - A collage of 2015 highlights from the Renegade Economists radio show depicting a story of systemic economic inequality.
- [Resource Rents in the Eye of the Storm](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/05/resource-rents-in-the-eye-of-the-storm/) - photo credit: versageek The might of the Australian mining industry is throwing everything it can at mainstream Australia at present. Can Joe 6 pack comprehend the difference between industry that is man-made ie car manufacturing, versus the mining industry, who are ripping up our valuable earth as if they scientifically produced the iron ore? Apparently,
- [Steve Keen on the Renegades](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/05/steve-keen-on-the-renegades/) - Steve Keen, winner of the Revere Award, was recently interviewed on the Renegade Economists. Listen to the interview, conducted during the midpoint of his Canberra to Kosciusko holiday. A little argy bargy makes for interesting listening. Once you have listened, read this post on China and credit restrictions. Apologies for the delay on getting this
- [Oil Speculators Greasing their Wheel](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/05/oil-speculators-greasing-their-wheel/) - Crude oil is the world's most actively traded commodity. Margin requirements see that speculators have to lodge only 5 - 7% of the total investment in an oil futures contract to gain ownership. This is compared to stocks, where 50% must be deposited upfront. The low margin required and the risk of investment in the
- [Oil Wealth feeds Higher Land Prices](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/06/oil-wealth-feeds-higher-land-prices/) - Moscow property market soars, driven by oil wealth states: As prices slump in the United States and elsewhere, Russia is wrapping up a year of an extraordinary, oil-driven real estate boom. Moscow, for instance, now ranks as the fourth-most-expensive city in the world for office space, trailing only London, Tokyo and Hong Kong, according to
- [Garnaut's Limitations](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/07/garnauts-limitations/) - Following the release of this week's Garnaut report on climate change, much has been made of the exemptions smokestack industries are lining up for. Another handy diversion is the debate over whether India and China wll be involved in any emissions trading system (ETS). Who put the carbon into the atmosphere in the first place?
- [Creative Capitalism - the latest buzzword](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/08/creative-capitalism-the-latest-buzzword/) - photo credit: ArtBrom Bill Gates Davos speech on Creative Capitalism has spurred an interesting array of online debate. Gates essentially re-branded Corporate Social Responsibility within the speech, outlining how corporations serve themselves and society best by considering the wider ramifications of their activities. Speaking as the world economy crashes like Microsoft OS, Gates proclaimed: I
- [Compromise Kev on Climate Change](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/12/compromise-kev-on-climate-change/) - photo credit: net_efekt Yesterday's long awaited emissions trading white paper has left the future of the planet compromised. The compromises on the 5% cut to greenhouse emissions typifies a government torn between lobbyists feathering their nests and the public's wrestling of the issues via the omnipresent public opinion polls. The trade-offs have been so extensive
- [G20 means plenty for some](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/g20-means-plenty-for-some/) - photo credit: bayerberg Last Thursday's G20 meet saw little new initiative. The $1.1 trillion stimulus package was largely from already announced packages. This totals up to US$5 trillion in bailout economics worldwide, appx 7% of the planet's GDP of US70 trillion (purchasing power parity exchange rates). The 'name and shame' tax haven policy development will
- [G20's Mean Feat](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/g20s-mean-feat/) - photo credit: Gonzopowers Renegade Economists Podcast 84 Subscribe to the podcast As broadcast on April 8th, 2009 via the almighty www.3CR.org.au G20's Mean Feat: Fred Harrison discusses the G20 and why such hot air hasn't changed in 100 years. Karl fires up as the realisation of this Good For Corporates GFC tragedy deepens each and
- [Everybody needs a home, not a property portfolio](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/03/everybody-needs-a-home-not-a-property-portfolio/) - Karl Fitzgerald's Renegade Economists on the affront that empty homes are during Australia's never ending housing crisis, with Kelly Whitworth (Homeless Persons Union)
- [EU Declaration of Bankruptcy](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/03/eu-declaration-of-bankruptcy/) - Renegade Economists Show 433 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes Dirk Loehr discusses EU economic pressures with regards environmental taxation, the refugee crisis and a central bank ignorant of the danger asset bubbles pose. Image - unsplash Related Links Sustainable Public Finance: Double
- [Peak Monopoly](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/03/peak-monopoly/) - Why was Malthus the perfect diversion plan to the French Revolution? Are resource shortages the issue or patent thickets ie peak monopoly
- [In Pursuit of the Mining Millions](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/02/in-pursuit-of-the-mining-millions/) - Kevin Morrison on the difficulty of building consensus towards resource rent taxation.
- [Negative Gearing for Marginal Seats](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/02/negative-gearing-for-marginal-seats/) - Australia's leading economist demolishes a number of NG myths and along the way teaches about entrenched inequality.
- [Sharing California](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/08/sharing-california/) - Karl Fitzgerald reports back on 3 weeks investigating the burgeoning sharing economy to report on the good, the bad and the beautiful.
- [The Fruits with Friendly Jordie](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/01/the-fruits-with-friendly-jordie/) - Comedian Friendly Jordie investigates the state of the Australian housing market and how it is manipulated by the incentives property investors receive.
- [Rentier Roundtable](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2016/01/rentier-roundtable/) - The team joins to discuss the state of the global economy in early 2016. This could have gone on for hours!
- [Henry George, Dr. Edward McGlynn, and Pope Leo XIII](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/henry-george-dr-edward-mcglynn-and-pope-leo-xiii/) - Prof. Mason Gaffney A paper delivered to International Conference on Henry George, November 1, 1997, at Cooper Union, New York; Professor Edward O'Donnell, Chair Revised, November 22, 1997 1. Turbulent times It was a different time, but often the same place (Cooper Union) in American life. No, it wasn't radio, but the age of orators. One of the most spellbinding was Dr. Edward McGlynn; another good one was Henry George, who also wrote great books. They came together in 1886 to roil the waters of American politics and ideology. Through the Irish and Vatican connections, they also roiled world politics and ideology.
- [Financing Our Own Oppression](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/12/financing-our-own-oppression/) - MIchael Hudson blisters on the new cold currency war between Oceania and the Washington Consensus. How do US Treasuries work?
- [The Black Box](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/11/the-black-box/) - Renegade Economists Show As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes Roman Lanis (Assoc Prof Accounting, UTS) discusses tax evasion strategies by oil companies undermining one of our ‘most efficient’ taxes. Image The Black Box by Renegade Economists on Mixcloud Related Links Secret ASIC list
- [Into Focus](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/11/into-focus/) - Renegade Economists Show 419 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes Mary Rose Liverani, author of ‘Sicily, a Captive Land’ joins to discuss the relationship between the Catholic Church and mafia in Sicily, then onto the land reform zest in Scotland. Music - Doctor
- [Data Processing Vortex](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/09/data-processing-vortex/) - photo credit: Јerry Renegade Economists Show 104 As broadcast on the almighty www.3cr.org.au - 02/09/09 Data Processing Vortex: How can we keep up to speed with the juggernaut of issues hurtling our way? Is it enough to keep making the same mistakes? Celebrating 2 years on air, Karl gives a wrap on the foundations to
- [Melanesian Land Issues interview](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/04/melanesian-land-issues-interview/) - photo credit: M0les Renegade Economists podcast Joel Simo from the Melanesian Land Defence Group visited Australia recently via an Aid Watch. Listen to his interview on the Renegades here... In discussion with Green Left Weekly Joel says: Customary land title represents the majority of land tenure in Fiji and Vanuatu and provides locals with food
- [Man in Street Says Tax Me, Not Miners](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/06/man-in-street-says-tax-me-not-miners/) - photo credit: iLoveMountains.org With this weeks poll showing that many Australians were undecided on the Super Profits Resource Tax, they are effectively saying 'please sir, tax me'. 'No I wouldn't think of ensuring that the privileged pay their fair share, please I emplore you - tax me!'. With 20 leading economists coming out in favour
- [Privilege of Rhinehart](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/05/privilege-of-rhinehart/) - One of the Hungry Beast's best shows this week. Rhinehart complains that she can't afford a Mining Tax when her wealth goes up $7bn in a single year?!!
- [Bob Massie: Just Transitions](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/02/bob-massie-just-transitions/) - Renegade Economists Show 382 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes Bob Massie (350.org.au & outgoing President of the New Economy coalition) gives a rousing speech at Melb Uni on the climate challenge and transitionary forces, followed by an interview with Karl. Share with
- [The Stewardship Factor](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/06/the-stewardship-factor/) - Paraic Lallay on the need for a more effective link between our moral compass and our economic outcomes
- [Magna Carta's Georgist critique](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/06/magna-cartas-georgist-critique/) - Renegade Economists radio on the missing piece from the Magna Carta. It was more than putting the king in his place, it established rent seeking.
- [Cultural Profiling](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/09/cultural-profiling/) - photo credit: Daquella manera Renegade Economists Podcast 105 As broadcast on www.3cr.org.au on 090909 Listen to the Gentrification special on cultural profiling. A special focusing on gentrification and the undermining of community - useful for those interested in our $3000 first prize I Want to Live Here Film competition. Enter and you have a 1
- [Earth Day upside down](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/earth-day-upside-down/) - photo credit: anarchosyn Renegade Economists Podcast 86 Subscribe to the podcast As broadcast on the almighty www.3cr.org.au on Wed April 22nd. Down under, upside down view of the world and the economics that sculpts it as we interview Environmental Lawyer Kim Lovegrove on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and lay out the future litigative pathway
- [Toronto Collects Economic Rent to Finance Infrastructure](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/06/toronto-collects-economic-rent-to-finance-infrastructure/) - Frank de Jong, Green Part of Ontario Leader Frank toured Australia this time last year for the True Cost Economics Forum. He wrote this piece in lieu of exciting developments in Canada. For the first time to my knowledge, Toronto will be collecting economic rent to pay for infrastructure — in this case to redevelop
- [Renegade Economist Interviews Now Online](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/02/renegade-economist-interviews-now-online/) - photo credit: ky_olsen We now have an extensive list of radio interviews collected over the last 18 months of the Renegade Economists radio show. Listen at your leisure to Phil Anderson, Fred Foldvary, Alanna Hartzok or Fred Harrison by clicking on any of the links. Click the arrow to download them. We hope you find
- [Hudson on Obama's Banking Bailout](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/02/hudson-on-obamas-bankers-bailout/) - Watch Michael Hudson blister Obama and his economic advisors on Democracy Now. Digest the hard hitting statements then read Hudson's Counterpunch piece: Trying to Revive the Bubble Economy: Obama's Awful Financial Recovery Plan By Michael Hudson Martin Wolf started off his Financial Times column for February 11 with the bold question: “Has Barack Obama’s presidency
- [I Want to Live Here Film comp screening](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/11/i-want-to-live-here-film-comp-screening/) - = Wed Dec 2nd, 6.30 – 8.15pm The Order of Melbourne , Level 2, 401 Swanston St An exciting evening of short films is set to enlighten us all on why communities are undermined by economics. Join us for a selection of rousing new films from Byron Bay to Brooklyn. Film makers had to look
- [Ripping Yourself Off.con](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/11/ripping-yourself-off-con/) - Renegade Economists radio on how small business has suffered at the hands of the easy money in property investment with Jason Murphy.
- [Micro States and Macro Issues](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/10/micro-states-and-macro-issues/) - Renegade Economists Show 414 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes Zbignew Dumienski (Uni of Auckland) discusses his research on the world of micro states - tiny nations making a splash in a world of big problems. We cover the usual unusual - from
- [The Pricing Pork Barrel](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/10/the-pricing-pork-barrel/) - Renegade Economists radio with Rick Rybeck on the vital need for a more effective infrastructure model with value capture.
- [Detroit: Value World](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/09/detroit-value-world/) - Punch after punch we take the Detroit streetwise tour with the one and only Maureen Taylor on the looting public office encourages.
- [Fair Hope for Land Reform](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/09/fair-hope-for-land-reform/) - Alodia Arnold from the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation discusses her vibrant community and the radical land reform underpinning it.
- [Planned Obsolescence of the Public Interest](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/08/planned-obsolescence-of-the-public-interest/) - Michael Hudson & Tune Nielsen on the challenge to economic analysis the vested interests entrench with regards to Greece, escaping the euro and financial parasitism.
- [QE for the People](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/08/qe-for-the-people/) - Prof Michael Hudson & Tune Nielsen on the financial warfare undermining our lives. Why shouldn't there be a QE for the People?
- [State Revenue Sovereignty](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/07/state-revenue-sovereignty/) - A detailed discussion on the need for state governments to raise more revenue using the most efficient tax base possible.
- [Channelling the Bubble](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/07/channelling-the-bubble/) - The Renegade Economists on the recent housing affordability bubble spotlight and the contorted political process distorting the reform agenda.
- [Remote Community Land Grab](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/07/remote-community-land-grab/) - Despite billions made in mining and trillions in the 'land game', there is no money to maintain the forced closure of remote aboriginal communities. Subtle genocide!
- [Clean Money, Dirty System](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/05/clean-money-dirty-system/) - Cameron Murray discusses his explosive report into the returns well connected property developers receive via re-zoning
- [Victorian Budget Plan](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/05/victorian-budget-plan/) - Renegade Economists Show 390 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes Stuart Menzies (Vice President, Planning Institute Australia) joins to give a … planning interpretation of the budget. We cover the new Metro Loop, the Interface growth areas, the need for value capture. Karl
- [The cutting edge of Environmental Economics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/04/the-cutting-edge-of-environmental-economics/) - A number of Renegade Economists interviews on the topic in one place! From eco system services to utilising qualitative non-monetary measures, we can evolved to a more common sense economics system!
- [Michael Hudson - Labor in the Ancient World](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/04/michael-hudson-labor-in-the-ancient-world/) - Step back 12,000 years to listen to Prof Michael Hudson on the ancient history of the battle between democratic rulers and the banking system.
- [The Next Economy - Capitalism 3.0](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/02/the-next-economy-capitalism-3-0/) - For those interested in a vision of a sane economy, member K.D summarised her key learnings from Peter Barnes' landmark 2007 book Capitalism 3.0. Acting on his beliefs, Peter kindly donated the book to the commons, allowing it to be downloaded (pdf). It can be purchased here. Most of these are direct transcriptions from the
- [Shareholders of the Earth](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/01/shareholders-of-the-earth/) - Renegade Economists Show #273 As broadcast on 3CR, Wed Jan 30, 2013 Listen to the show Subscribe to the podcast Following on from George Monbiot's article supporting Land Tax last week, the show features a BBC interview with UK Green MP Caroline Lucas on her legislative bill to the House of Commons asking Treasury to
- [Winston Churchill on Site Rating](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/winston-churchill-on-site-rating/) - LAND PRICE AS A CAUSE OF POVERTY Winston Churchill's Speech in the House of Commons, 4 May 1909, in response to Mr AJ Balfour, Leader of the Opposition The immemorial custom of nearly every modern State, the mature conclusions of many of the greatest thinkers, have placed the tenure, transfer, and obligations of land in a wholly different category from other classes of property. The mere obvious physical distinction between land, which is a vital necessity of every human being and which at the same time is strictly limited in extent, and other property is in itself sufficient to justify a clear differentiation in its treatment, and in the view taken by the State of the conditions which should govern the tenure of land from that which should regulate traffic in other forms of property.
- [Georgist Investigation of MMT](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/02/georgist-investigation-of-mmt/) - A controversial post by Bill Mitchell deserves further discussion, with Jesse Hermans (Fair Money Australia) as we dig into MMT.
- [The Climate Fund Under Our Feet](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/02/the-climate-fund-under-our-feet/) - An event to add firepower to any conservative discussion. The green reform movement suffers from the economic analysis corrupted by the robber barons ...
- [Pacific Resource Issues](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/03/pacific-resource-issues/) - Read this innovative Helo Magazine interview. As a crisis journalism magazine, we were interviewed via a skype roundtable chat session: Part of the intro states: Can Pacific peoples bridge the world’s chasm between understanding cause and effect of climate change as well as coconut colonialism? Paradise, blue water, blue skies, abundant marine life, smiling faces,
- [Housing Investors Crowd Out Community](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/06/housing-investors-crowd-out-community/) - The continual expansion of housing investors over home owners shows the Great Aussie dream is speculative in nature. The risk this places on the community is magnified vis the GFC.
- [Global Haywire Film Night](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/07/earthsharing-events/) - The Comics of Economics - featuring Ross Ashcroft 7pm, Thursday January 10th, Melbourne CBD In need of some FREE comedy to get your year on the roll? Start the year laughing at the tightrope we walk juggling our finances. Ever wondered why it's so difficult? Internationally acclaimed comedian Ross Ashcroft will take the mickey out of the structural reasons for our trials and tribulations, helping us laugh at the big picture causes. Ever wanted to laugh at why the top 10% own 80% of the planet and how little we address this core issue?
- [Annual Dinner - Our 117th!](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/08/annual-dinner-our-117th/) - 117th Henry George Annual Dinner Tues Sept 2nd Equal and Inalienable Rights to the Earth -- Ground, Water and Air: when and how should one allow Enclosing the Commons? Download Flyer This year we are fortunate to have Dr Terry Dwyer deliver the Commemorative Address. As a highly respected Resource Economist, Terry has chosen this
- [Sustainable Economics for Everyone](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/01/sustainable-economics-for-everyone/) - photo credit: Berd Whitlock Saturday Feb 21st, Sustainable Living Festival 3pm - 3.50pm Think Tent, Fed Square Big Problems need Big Picture thinking. Reforming our economic system so that every decision we make reflects the environmental cost of making that good or undertaking that activity is vital for our survival. With Melbourne one of the
- [FHOG = FOG](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/05/fhog-fog/) - photo credit: Hitchster Renegade Economists Podcast 87 Subscribe to the podcast As broadcast on the almighty www.3cr.org.au on Wed April 29th. FHOG = FOG: John Poulter discusses Macquarie Bank, Postcode Swapping and the basic principles to a productive economy. Stop subsidising the wealthy with economic trickery! Show Notes: Anything in italics is an additional comment
- [Monash rates proposal flops in Tasmania, rankles in WA](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/08/monash-rates-proposal-flops-in-tasmania-rankles-in-wa/) - photo credit: ChicagoGeek Dr Gavin Putland As Monash City Council tries to manufacture consent to tax buildings through council rates, the same idea looks set to be dumped in Tasmania and has just been pilloried in the local press in WA. Strictly speaking, the systems under attack in Tasmania and WA are based on the
- [Global Fossil Divestments](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/02/global-fossil-divestments/) - Renegade Economists Show 380 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes The Global Divestment Movement: Zac Hatfield Dodds from Fossil Free ANU discusses the divestment movement at ANU and why it is so crucial to humanity's survival. Global Fossil Divestments by Renegadeeconomists on Mixcloud
- [Sharing Platform Rents](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2015/01/sharing-platform-rents/) - Janelle Orsi discusses the need for legal protection for the commons based activities in urban agriculture, seed saving and coops. Then we segway into the Australian experience.
- [Floating Concrete to Foreclosure](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/12/floating-concrete-to-foreclosure/) - Listen to life with a Melbourne westie, Hayden discussing his work as a concreter and some of the things he's experienced on planet earth.
- [Land Value Taxation in Australia and Its Potential For Reforming Our Chaotic Tax System](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/land-value-taxation-in-australia/) - The Walsh Memorial Bequest Address delivered at Macquarie University School of Economics 27 May 1988 by MD Herps, FAIV, DipLaw (BAB), FSLE [Doug Herps was Deputy Valuer-General, New South Wales, and consultant to the Commonwealth Grants Commission in connection with Australia's land values] Introduction From the beginning of white settlement in Australia our forbears were confronted by the many problems of settling themselves into what was imagined to be an empty and hostile land. After the discovery of gold in the 1850s, however, the population rose dramatically and municipal problems multiplied. But the all important access to land was largely denied to many settlers because so much that was favourably situated or well watered and fertile had become locked up by the squatters, many of whom had gained possession, often illegally, of tracts as large as European principalities. What to do about this urgent social problem became the most pressing need of the second half of the nineteenth century.
- [Polly Higgins: Taking Ecocide to the UN](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/09/polly-higgins-taking-ecocide-to-the-un/) - Renegade Economists Show 199 Celebrating 4 years on air. Subscribe now. Global activist Polly Higgins discusses the legal moves to protect the environment from corporate entities. Listen here Her websites are: Trees Have Rights Too Eradicating Ecocide - the book Polly Higgins Polly is currently touring Australia. Following the interview we discuss our new documentary
- [Beyond Flat Earth Economics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/02/beyond-flat-earth-economics/) - Economic policy is set as if the earth is infinite. This framework reverberates through our housing policy, mining and lack of eco system service accounting. Economics is changing though.
- [Nicole Foss - Relocalising the Trust Horizon](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/04/nicole-foss-relocalising-the-trust-horizon/) - Renegade Economists 284 Leading economics - energy - environment commentator Nicole Foss joins to discuss the state of finance. She is in Australia on an extensive speaking tour. Support her work and your economic literacy by attending! Nicole Foss on the Renegade Economists by Renegadeeconomists on Mixcloud Subscribe to the podcast KF: Nicole, in terms
- [How many empty homes this year?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/10/how-many-empty-homes-this-year/) - For 6 years we have been quantifying the number of empty homes in Melbourne. The numbers are again staggering in residential and also commercial. For anyone interested in affordability, come to this event.
- [Housing Inquiry Submission](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/04/housing-inquiry-submission/) - Earthsharing's submission to the Senate's inquiry into housing affordability, listing 14 deterrents to a reasonable place to live.
- [Parasitical Economics of the New Guilded Age](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/01/parasitical-economics-of-the-new-guilded-age/) - what we have today is we have an economics curriculum in the high schools and in universities – more in universities than in high schools - that basically teaches that parasitism is A ok - parasitism is the way to go. And that’s why you have all those business schools, the major business schools in the United States, producing all these kids who want to go straight to Wall Street to make a billion bucks doing nothing. Basically,you know, pressing a couple of buttons and enjoying incredible profits while actually adding no productivity to society or producing no real goods or services.
- [On Eco System Service Valuation](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/02/on-eco-system-service-valuation/) - Renegade Economists Show #274 Listen to the show Subscribe to the podcast Mining and logging make the big bucks, but what's the true cost? This week Karl interviews Ian Curtis, of Curtis NRA, whose landmark work on Eco System Service Valuation has won a serious battle in Papua New Guinea. He combines ecology and economics to calculate
- [Greek Debt Tan](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/11/greek-debt-tan/) - Renegade Economists 206 Listen to the podcast weekly, broadcast from the almighty 3CR. Broadcast Oct, 26th, 2011 Listen to the interview. K.F: Let’s have a chat with Yanis Tziligakis. He’s a New York based academic - he’s got a bachelors, a masters, and a phd in the field of physics - he’s now realized he’s
- [Housing Glut Interest](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/01/housing-glut-interest/) - Adam Schwab wrote up our fourth report on speculative vacancies in Crikey yesterday. Shortage or glut? Feast or famine? The question of whether Australia is suffering a housing shortage continues to be hotly disputed, with the real estate and construction lobbies arguing a desperate shortage exists, while other independent bodies, such as Prosper Australia, disputing
- [SLF Festival this weekend](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/02/slf-festival-this-weekend/) - Earthsharing will have a stall along the Yarra riverbank at this weekend's huge SLF event from Fri 12 - 8pm, Sat - Sun 9 - 5pm. Drop in to buy a copy of Real Estate 4 Ransom, have a chat about the state of our speculative housing market or find out about our latest campaign.
- [Hudson on Growth, Compound Interest](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/04/hudson-on-growth-compound-interest/) - photo credit: kenteegardin Renegade Economists Podcast 227 Subscribe to the podcast, broadcast from 3CR Recorded March 7th, Listen Behind the EU Bailout Prof Michael Hudson discusses the background to the Greek bailout (just days before it was given another reprieve) and how US interests are of concern. We travel through debt, compound interest, Sumeria to
- [Monied Misnomas](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/05/monied-misnomas/) - Renegade Economists Podcast 237 As broadcast on the almighty 3CR, Wed May 16th, 2012. 12 year old Victoria Grant featured on the show, as I roll through some recent news items relating to our misconceptions about core economic ideas surrounding money creation, austerity and foreign investment. Listen to the show
- [Perennial Wisdom](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/06/perennial-wisdom/) - Renegade Economists podcast 238 As broadcast on 3CR, Wed May 16, 2012 Listen to the interview See other past interviews. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast KF: Karl Fitzgerald AH: Alanna Hartzok KF: This week’s special guest on the Renegade Economists is Alanna Hartzok. Alanna is the author of “The Earth Belongs to Everyone” and
- [Windfall Welfare](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/06/windfall-welfare/) - Planning Minister Matthew Guy has just handed his mates a conservative $420 MILLION dollars. The 7000 hectare expansion of the Urban Growth Boundary is the equivalent to a golden pen tick, turning those who are lucky enough to own land in the right locations into millionaires. Urbis calculates that a $60,000 windfall is delivered to
- [Lobbyocracy Rules](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/06/lobbyocracy-rules/) - Taken from today's LIberal Donors Win Big from Rezoning by Royce Millar: The 100-hectare property was purchased as a bush block by the Carpenter family for $50,000 in 1967. Developer Watsons has estimated its developed value at up to $500 million. .. Yesterday Parklea chief executive Andrew Facey confirmed being an enthusiastic Liberal supporter. He
- [Denise Brailey on Low Doc Loans Scandal](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/08/denise-brailey-on-low-doc-loans/) - Renegade Economists Podcast 250 As broadcast on 3CR Wed August 22nd Listen to the Renegade Economist interview Denise Brailey is the President of the Banking and Finance Consumer Support Association. For the last eight years she has helped distressed home buyers investigate why banks lent them more than they could afford. Last week she presented
- [Michel Bauwens on Peer 2 Peer's Mutual Alignment](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/09/michel-bauwens-on-peer-2-peers-mutual-alignment/) - Renegade Economists Podcast 253 As broadcast on 3CR, Wed Sept 12th Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Michel Bauwens from the Peer 2 Peer Foundation discusses the ongoing revolution in open source activity. He presents evidence showing that peer 2 peer networking delivers the lowest cost format for information sharing and production. Listen in on this
- [Michael Hudson on Set up to Fail](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/09/michael-hudson-on-set-up-to-fail/) - Renegade Economists Fifth Birthday - episode 252 Prof Michael Hudson discusses the state of modern economic warfare in a geo-political context. Is democracy dead? A special treat for our fifth birthday. Renegade Economists interview 05.09.2012 Interview with Professor Michael Hudson by Karl Fitzgerald Listen KF: We welcome to the show Professor Michael Hudson, Distinguished Research
- [Lehmann's Case: Banker's Duty of Care](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/09/lehmanns-case-bankers-duty-of-care/) - Renegade Economists podcast 255 Subscribe to the weekly 3CR podcast or listen live 5.30pm on 855AM (on the dial) or stream via here (top left hand side) Justice for the People, Not Banksters: Mayor Ken Keith (Shire of Parkes) & Prof Justin O'Brien from the Centre for Law, Markets & Regulation at UNSW discuss the
- [Mongolian Magic Millions](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/11/mongolian-magic-millions/) - Renegade Economists podcast 261 As broadcast on 3CR Wed Nov 8th, 2012 Mongolian Monopolies: We visit the world's fastest growing economy to discuss the magic millions forumula of mining boom plus land game with journalist Michael Kohn Listen here Subscribe to the podcast via itunes An excerpt from Michael's article Property Boom in Mongolia: An
- [One Handed Housing Supply ](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/04/one-handed-housing-supply/) - 622,781 speculative vacancies are holding the Australian property market to ransom, demanding their capital gain. To re-emphasise, these speculative vacancies could add 350% more to supply than was needed in 2008. The world's last standing property bubble i hear you say???
- [Kindly Remove Your Fingers From My Heartstrings, Aussie Pollies, You Don't Know How To Play Them.](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/05/kindly-remove-your-fingers-from-my-heartstrings-aussie-pollies-you-dont-know-how-to-play-them/) - Have you ever heard the word 'family' bandied about so often as in the Government's 'response' to the Henry Tax Review last week? I put the word 'response' in parenthesis because, as Alan Kohler so aptly pointed out on the ABC website, Henry's comprehensive review and the Rudd/Swan tax 'reform' statement (sorry, our 'leaders' have
- [Gentrification Games Artists](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/06/gentrification-games-artists/) - Gentrification can be slowed down by removing the speculative intent in herent in property speculation. Not only does this systemic failure blow up the global financial system, but it also blows apart communities
- [Stiglitz on America's Economic Dystopia](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/07/stiglitz-on-americas-economic-dystopia/) - Today I had the pleasure of seeing Professor Joseph Stiglitz speak on the topic of From Measuring Production to Measuring Well-Being, courtesy of the Economic Society of Australia. I became a fan of his following his timely defection from the World Bank as outlined in Greg Palast's The Globalizer Who Came in from the Cold.
- [Buyers Strike Goes Mainstream](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/04/buyers-strike-goes-mainstream/) - 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
- [Prof Peter Newman on Infrastructure Financing](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/06/prof-peter-newman-on-infrastructure-financing/) - Renegade Economists Podcast 188 Subscribe to the free podcast here Professor Peter Newman (Curtin Uni) joins us for an in depth discussion on the peak oil era and the cities we will need. We examine the report he co-authored with Trubka and Bilsborough - Assessing the Costs of Alternative Development Paths in Australian Cities. (PDF
- [Carbon Tax Positives](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/07/carbon-tax-positives/) - The Gillard Government's Clean Energy Future plan signifies that the game is up for the free rider's polluting our planet. The Carbon Tax of $23 per tonne of carbon for July 1 2012 - June 30 2013 sends a clear message that polluters must pay. In this age of compromise politics, the industry lobbyists who
- [Gentrification animated in dot format ](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/12/gentrification-animated-in-dot-format/) - Second placegetters in the I Want to Live Here film comp were Ghafouri Productions. A slick look at how communities are split apart by the speculative mentality dominating economic policy. Can you hold on? Please read on!
- [Free TV Handout Outrage](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/02/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
- [Goldman Sachs Manipulates Monopoly Powers in Greece](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/02/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
- [Submission: Digital Dividend For the Commonwealth](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/03/submission-digital-dividend-for-the-commonwealth/) - photo credit: striatic Our submission to the Digital Dividend green paper for the sale of 4G Electro Magnetic Spectrum licenses. Karl Fitzgerald The electro magnetic spectrum is a scarce resource. Over time it will increase in value, especially with the advent of new technology. As such, the recent release of the iPhone 3GS has delivered
- [DJ Spooky on the Renegades](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/03/dj-spooky-on-the-renegades/) - Renegade Economists Podcast 130 As broadcast on the mighty 3CR - Wed March 03, 2010 Subscribe to the podcast Show Notes - 'All Puns Intended' Internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Paul Millar (DJ Spooky) discusses his Nauru Elegies project. Hear with interest how Nauru, the modern day equivalent of Easter Island, has overexploited its resource base.
- [Prof Hudson Tour Charges Ahead](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/10/prof-hudson-tour-charges-ahead/) - Seats to Professor Michael Hudson's presentations (Oct 14 - 27) are filling fast, with major PR next week to fill the remaining spots. The renowned US economist is set to leave ears burning on why a decade of record economic growth has left so many behind. He has 3 presentations in Melbourne next week, followed
- [Dissecting America](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/08/dissecting-america/) - photo credit: al-zahraRenegade Economists Podcast 102 As broadcast on the almighty www.3cr.org.au 19/08/09 Dissecting America: Karl returns from the US armed with signs, stats and interviews from the raw edge, defining a crumbling empire. Show Notes Interviews with Na-Haaa (Sunset Boulevard, LA), Leon the taxi driver (Cleveland, Ohio) and the renegade at the bus stop
- [Conflict of Interest](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/09/conflict-of-interest/) - Renegade Economists Podcast 103 As broadcast on the almighty www.3cr.org.au on Wed August 26th. Subscribe to the podcast by clicking on the Itunes logo (top right hand side of the front page - the blue note) Conflict of Interest: An interview with Wendell Fitzgerald on the conflict that land owning MP's and bankers face. A
- [Re-Invasion Land Grabs](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/07/re-invasion-land-grabs/) - Renegade Economists Podcast 97 As broadcast on the almighty 3CR on 8 July, 2009 Subscribe to the podcast Show Notes: Re-Invasion Land Grabs: Elder Michael Anderson from Euahlayi Nation discusses the intervention into indigenous lands, discussing how this blatant land grab relates to genocidal actions. Some new developments on the intervention virus are spreading. Related
- [McMansion Melbourne Costs Add Up](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/08/mcmansion-melbourne-costs-add-up/) - photo credit: Zest-pk The Age reports on the plague of spare rooms in Room to spare as city sprawls . Would Speed Renting help assist us all look outside our own social networks to consider someone who fits our dream home atmosphere? We are tracking down the listed report (below) to add to Rob Adams
- [FHOG Sucker Punches Gen X/Y](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/fhog-sucker-punches-gen-xy/) - photo credit: bjornmeansbear With climate change forging into our conscience day by day, how are Gen X,Y & Z to feel when they realise they have been ripped off like no other generation before? The increase in the First Home Owners Grant saw nearly 13,000 youngsters manipulated into buying at the top end of the
- [Melbourne Social Forum workshops this weekend](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/melbourne-social-forum-workshops-this-weekend/) - photo credit: andredeak Rebooting Economics as if People and Planet mattered This Saturday 3.45pm at the Melbourne Social Forum, CERES Park, Brunswick in the Training Room Learn the language of the powerful so we can turn market forces around to our advantage. There is a way that greens can discuss economics in a manner that
- [Review: The Secret Life of Real Estate](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/05/review-the-secret-life-of-real-estate/) - Review by Mason Gaffney, May 2009 available from our bookshop - $50 hardback This is an exciting, important and timely work; it will sell well. Anderson has ferreted out and marshaled dozens of sources on the 18-year cycle of boom and bust in real estate, its history, its mechanics, and its dynamics. Some sources are
- [Budget Smudge it](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/05/budget-smudge-it/) - photo credit: DieselDemon Renegade Economists Podcast 89 Subscribe to the podcast As broadcast on the almighty www.3cr.org.au on Wed May 13th. Show Notes: More speculative handouts revealed in this unique budgetary analysis. Dr Gavin Putland is our guest this week as he analyses the pro's and con's of the pandering to lobbyists. Anything in italics
- [The End of Charity](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/05/the-end-of-charity/) - Renegade Economist Podcast 90 Subscribe to the podcast As aired live on Wed May 20th, 2009 via radio on the almighty www.3cr.org.au The End of Charity: Author & World Economic Forum insider Nic Francis talks about how we can shape market forces to reflect the moral values we need in a climate altered world. Listen
- [Crisis in Democracy Looming](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/05/crisis-in-democracy-looming/) - photo credit: unusualimage Sometime soon someone will write an article on how lobbyocracy has subverted the public's interest at the expense of the community's in a staggering number of projects. One just has to have read John Perkin's Economic Hitman to understand that the major projects announced in Victoria (Channel deepening, North- South pipeline, De-Sal
- [Bollier on The Great Seabed Enclosure](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/05/bollier-on-the-great-seabed-enclosure/) - David Bollier, author of the recently released Viral Spiral, on yet another aspect of the privateers' frontiers: A few years ago, Russia sent a submersible craft 4 kilometers beneath the North Pole to plant a titanium flag on the floor of the ocean. Its purpose: to stake a claim on the continental shelf where there
- [The Gentrification Game film comp](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/06/the-gentrification-game-film-comp/) - Announcing the 2009 I Want to Live Here film comp! The theme this year is: The Gentrification Game: The War on Creativity Artists exist on the edge of the system. Wages are required to pay for basic living expenses such as rent and food. Time is required to be creative. Cheap rent gives artists more
- [Speed Renting next Tuesday](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/06/speed-renting-next-tuesday/) - Winter Vibes - Right House? As we snuggle up to our 4th blanket, scramble for our long johns and warm via that cuppa soup, we must ask ourselves, are we living with the best people? Winter migration is still possible at next week's free event - Speed Renting! Leaseholders interview roomseekers for about 3 minutes,
- [Prof Michael Hudson on Grand Theft Monopoly](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/07/prof-michael-hudson-on-grand-theft-monopoly/) - photo credit: Search Engine People Blog Renegade Economist Podcast 96 As broadcast on the mighty www.3cr.org.au - Wednesday July 1st. Subscribe to the podcast Show Notes: Grand Theft Monopoly – Professor Michael Hudson excels in describing globalisation from a financial snipers perspective, analysing how real estate (land) is used in the game of currency siphoning
- [Ponzi, property and genuine wealth creation](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/01/ponzi-property-and-genuine-wealth-creation/) - photo credit: James Willamor Michael Hudson explores the analogous nature of Ponzi schemes and the property bubble. How is wealth created in the modern era? Through hard word, through who you know or what you 'flip'? December 23, 2008 Last week the Good Lord evidently realized that not enough people had been reading Hyman Minsky’s
- [Speed Renting Tues March 17th](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/speed-renting-tues-march-17th/) - Are you frustrated with the search for affordable rentals???? Speed Renting is set to save renters of all ages, international and local students from sleep crumpin! Thousands of international students have hit Oz in the last month and stories abound of dodgy real estate sharks charging double the market rate for a crumpled corner of
- [The Earth Belongs to Everyone](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/02/the-earth-belongs-to-everyone/) - Alanna Hartzok, who we toured around Australia in 2006, has a new book: The Earth Belongs to Everyone. Signifying the clarity of this work, Alanna has been awarded the 2008 Radical Middle Political Book Award. The annual award is given to books that best exemplify a politics that's grounded in practical reality, but at the
- [Daring a Homeowners Bailout?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/daring-a-homeowners-bailout/) - The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cCNBC Gives Financial AdviceDaily Show Full EpisodesImportant Things With Demetri MartinPolitical HumorEconomic Crisis
- [Lobbyists linked to Developers](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/07/lobbyists-linked-to-developers/) - Today's important Age article by Royce Millar; Political Donations Linked to Developers, Contractors dissects how those in property or infrastructure dominate Victorian Labor's cosy Progressive Business fundraising arm. They also dominate the political donations made to political parties. The returns are staggering. The percentage return on donations for Victorian Govt contracts: Leighton - 301% return
- [Winter Film Night](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/07/winter-film-night/) - Winter Film Night Tuesday July 22nd at 6.45pm for 7pm sharp, Level 1/ 27 Hardware Lane, Melb Join us for a warm night of films! See the premiere of the Earthsharing Challenge film Who Owns Anglesea, giving a Georgist perspective upon the problems society faces. The focus was on housing affordability and how this effects
- [Bailing out the Bubble’s Enablers](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/08/bailing-out-the-bubbles-enablers/) - photo credit: laurenatclemsonMichael Hudson July 14, 2008 I am writing this article about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while sitting in the Queens Botanical Garden. This was not my plan today. The central air conditioning in my apartment broke down six weeks ago, and still has not been fixed. (It’s a nice condominium building, but
- [House Hunt Put in Focus ](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/08/house-hunt-put-in-focus/) - House hunt put in focus - Leader News: Melbourne community news The I Want to Live Here Film competition has made the Leader Newspaper throughout Western Melbourne. Concern over affordability and the lack of deep seated analysis leaves young people no option but to tell the real story. Laura Zeeman says: It is not really
- [The Entrance Fee to Life & Palin's Potential](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/09/the-entrance-fee-to-life/) - photo credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com The ability to charge rent is in effect imposing an entrance fee to life on this planet. Having a wise old supporter in George Jukes placating the office over the last few days, we were reminded of the wisdom of Roots Revolution stocked deep in the vaults of this website.
- [Speed Renting Takes Off](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/09/speed-renting-takes-off/) - Quoted in today's Melbourne Leader: DESPERATE room seekers fret not: speed renting has arrived. In ways similar to its dating counterpart, speed renting gives desperate room seekers in Melbourne the chance to meet leaseholders without excess travel or advertising costs. Tomorrow dozens of potential housemates and leaseholders will gather at digital arts bar, Horse Bazaar,
- [Reserve Cuts Interest Rates by a Whopping 1%](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/10/reserve-cuts-interest-rates-by-a-whopping-1/) - photo credit: azrainman Will it ever be learnt? The Greenspan playbook of cutting interest rates pushed the asset bubble ever higher and higher in the early to mid 90's. Now Australia's Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stephens is endeavouring to do the same. And gee whizz the markets rally. Surely this is an act of panic.
- [Renegade Economists Podcast 57](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/10/renegade-economists-podcast-57/) - photo credit: Andrei! You can download the podcast by following these directions Show Notes R57 Recorded Wednesday Oct 8th The Looming Global Recession Prof of Economics Mason Gaffney joins us from the heart of the meltdown to declare that we are heading for Great Depression, yes Depression...We fly through the 18 year land cycle, how
- [Economic Funnies](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/10/economic-funnies/) - Our crazed times demand the occasional laugh, even a good news story. www.brokershandsontheirfacesblog - every day a new photo appears! And in preparation for tomorrow... hinting at how the economy relies on the environment: Marking the 79th anniversary of the stock market crash that caused the Great Depression, artist collaborators Ligorano/Reese will stage a literal
- [Renegade Economists Podcast 64](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/12/renegade-economists-podcast-64/) - Please Note: Whoops some technical issues at 3CR have scuttled our podcasting link. So we hope all you google aficionados find your way back to this crucial information. To get our podcasts back online, copy this link into your Itunes: http://podcast.3cr.org.au/podcast.php?cat=RenegadeEconomists For more details on how exactly to do this. Be warned, it may change
- [Empty Homes for All to See](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/05/empty-homes-for-all-to-see/) - The Sydney Morning Herald is on our side. Today's headline news includes an article featuring Bubblepedia.net, a wiki set up by Dr Daniel Cox for photos of vacant homes to be uploaded onto the web. What a great idea! We have a Panoramia page with some of our vacant photos uploaded. The article, entitled Empty
- ["The Tools of Sustainability" Tour Overview](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2007/07/the-tools-of-sustainability-tour-overview/) - Frank De Jong - Tools of Sustainability Tour July 13 - Aug 3 Melbourne - Sydney - Auckland - Full Tour Itinerary Frank De Jong, leader of the Ontario Greens (Canada), will be touring to discuss and demonstrate the economic tools the planet so desperately needs. Frank has a long history of campaigning, having competed in 12 Canadian elections over 20 years. He is renowned in Canada for having coined the term 'the invisible green hand' of market forces. Frank will bring to audiences a positive message on how we can stay ahead of the greenwashing brigade. What are the latest sustainability trends in the Northern Hemisphere? How can we lobby for more environmentally efficient economic policy? Isn't that true conservatism? Beyond economic theory, Frank loves getting his hands dirty, having led protests against the largest nuclear power station in North America (Darlington), been arrested in Northern Ontario's old growth forests and cycled through much of Canada. Frank is an engaging speaker, making economics easy to understand.
- [I Want to Live Here report](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2007/11/iw2/) - Bluestone Ward Key Findings: Vacant land and housing in Bluestone Ward, City of Maribyrnong could see 1058 people living within 430 properties in the locality. This would add 11.7% to the population in the municipality, greatly benefiting local business. The extra supply of 430 properties to the market would limit if not reduce rampant property price inflation in the area. Local, state and federal governments implicitly encourage such wastage with the tax system supporting speculative profiteering at the expense of productive land use. Purpose: To demonstrate that the vacancy rate advertised by the Real Estate Institute of Victoria does not represent the true state of the property market. Introduction: The real estate industry is calling for land release as a solution to the housing affordability crisis. This report demonstrates that the private supply of land held by speculators is the primary issue that needs to be addressed. The proximity of Footscray to the CBD and its price differential sees it as prime territory for speculation. Speculative pressures are the dominant force impeding housing affordability. New supply of federal land will mean little, as it will be snapped up by speculators rather than first homeowners. Families and young people are handicapped in the property market by a range of tax advantages that assist those who own land to own even more. Low capital gains and negative gearing are regularly discussed as limiting affordability. However, the 1996 Kennett changes to CIV council rates has seen the family household with its capital improvements pay higher rates than the wealthy vacant landowner. This has also lead to a reduction in rental housing stock, as it is cheaper for the landlord to let property fall into disrepair than fix it. It is even cheaper for them to demolish the property to reduce their share of the rating burden. State governments have also contributed to the demise of housing affordability by sending constant signals to the property sector that Land Tax will be reduced. A holding charge on land is essential to curtail the influence of ‘speculative vacancies’ on housing affordability. The benefits to the community are considerable. If 1058 people were added to the Bluestone Wards’ population of 9000 people, local business would enjoy a considerable fillip with the demand for goods and services required by an additional 11.7% of people. First homebuyers would benefit too. If the 430 properties were encouraged onto the market with a holding charge on land, this would considerably add to the amount of land up for auction. With a conservative estimate of 35 auctions (www.homepriceguide.com.au) taking place in the ward each month, adding 430 properties over 12 months would virtually double the supply of auctions. This would help level the playing field, creating a buyers market power for people who want to use land for housing rather than speculation. Melbourne 2030 is being threatened by a dysfunctional tax policy that encourages ‘doughnut’ development. Photographic Evidence: (vacancies in red) Bluestone Ward West Bluestone Ward North (pink – vacancies outside the ward) Bluestone Ward Central Bluestone Ward South Method: The Bluestone Ward was surveyed from the ground via bicycle. Vacancies were recorded via digital camera and then onto spreadsheets. Google Earth was used with its bird’s eye view to estimate the number of dwellings per vacant site ie a comparison of the number of neighbouring dwellings that would fit on that land. Conservative estimations were maintained in estimating all dwellings on vacant land. Ie a quarter acre block saw 1 dwelling, not the 2-3 houses as per modern development trends. No multi-story apartments were included in our calculations. The average number of occupants per dwelling is 2.46 in the City of Maribyrnong. Findings: Vacant land sites – 399 Vacant buildings – 31 Total – 430 Vacant Properties Vacant land accounted for 982 people Vacant houses accounted for 76 people Total - 1058 people Period: All calculations were made on Fri Sept 21st, 2007. Genuine Vacancies: The present 1.4% vacancy rate (REIV) only includes rental properties in the rental market. We propose that there is a much higher rate of vacant land if we include ‘speculative vacancies’ – those properties withheld from the market to manufacture additional capital gains. Vacant land is the dominant marker of this trend. We advocate the need for a ‘genuine vacancy’ rate – one that includes both ‘rental vacancies’ and ‘speculative vacancies’. Such a calculation would give the general public a better understanding of the inefficiencies within the land market. From this we could evolve to a fairer land policy that encourages reward for effort over reward for speculation. The I Want to Live Here survey covered the significant land holdings of the former Pacific Dunlop site, Cross St, Footscray West (as seen in the Bluestone Ward Central photo). This nine-acre site has been vacant since 2001, greatly reducing the supply of land in the region, pushing up prices in surrounding areas. Once the ‘Banbury Village’ development is built the dwellings will no doubt be drip-fed to the market to maximise profits, meaning that land may have remained vacant on the site for over a decade. It must be noted that if speculative vacancies from apartments were included, the 1058 figure would be substantially higher. Why does the Reserve Bank allow the Real Estate Industry to be the sole supplier of figures for which they have a vested interest in publishing? Speculative Prowess: Any prospective first home owner valiantly searching for a place would be shocked to realise that 1058 people could live in Bluestone Ward if a fairer land policy was adopted. This finding is significant in an environment where we are constantly told that vacancies are at a record low. Furthermore, the current peak in the property cycle typically finds that much vacant land has already been sold off with the profit maximising motif in mind. Thus if we were to look back at the mid point of this property cycle, the 1058 figure understates the typical inefficiencies in the property market. The Urban Development Institute of Australia releases a Land Price Index, which monitors the number of sites sold and the prices attained for land. Any rational property developer would utilise such information to ensure the supply of land is limited to maximise prices. The Issue: At present an average vacant site in Footscray goes for approximately $220,000. This sees a Land Tax on only $20,000 over the $200,000 threshold. This would cost just $240 p.a. Add council rates of $800 onto this and the holding charge is barely $1000. With property increasing by 30% in Footscray over the last 12 months, such a holding charge is dwarfed by the profits to be made in this paper-shuffling industry. A site value of $220,000 is typical of the median $330,000 house. Thus the constant bickering over Land Tax equates to just $240 for speculators to pay on the properties first homebuyers are trying to purchase. Such minimal charges encourage land hoarding to maximise prices. Conclusion: The hidden supply of land withheld from the market by private speculators can be addressed using market forces. A reformed Land Tax, in the form of a Site Rental, should be implemented along the lines of the Victorian Government’s 2001 Harvey Report recommendations. A higher Site Rental rate, set at a flat percentage rate could easily fund the abolition of stamp duties and payroll tax, and pay for a reduction in the regressive sales tax. With the political difficulties inherent in a democratic system where vested interests dominate political campaign donations, the administering of such a sensitive policy should be handed to the apolitical Reserve Bank. The 430 vacant sites found in just one small ward in the City of Maribyrnong contribute greatly to affordability pressures. If a Site Rental was implemented at a responsible level (upwards of 1.5%), these properties would soon find their way onto the market. This added supply would limit if not reverse the drastic land price inflation we are seeing. The benefits would see small business encouraged, local employment improved and wages increase. Why then are governments so unwilling to address this issue? "I do not deny that all taxes, with the exception of those on economic rent and inherited wealth, have some employment and economic growth effects."John Howard, 10/12/1991 – p15 AFR Is there perhaps another reason that vested interests talk so loudly on this topic? A Site Rental is a levy that can’t be evaded. Speculative vacancies are a national trend that must be addressed. Author: Karl Fitzgerald, B.Ec, Project Coordinator, Earthsharing Australia Researcher: Kellie Gee Contact: (03) 9670 2754 k2@earthsharing.org.au PDF Version IW2LH report (PDF 3.5MB)
- [Renegade Economists now Podcasting](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/05/renegade-economists-now-podcasting/) - You can listen to the world's only geonomics radio show by subscribing to our podcast. To have your computer automatically download each week's show: Open up Itunes, go to the Itunes Store and search 'Renegade Economists' then subscribe OR follow these 3 easy steps - copy this link: http://podcast.3cr.org.au/podcast.php?cat=RenegadeEconomists go to your ITunes, Click on
- [I Want to Live Here Film Competition](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/06/i-want-to-live-here-film-competition/) - Busting the myths of housing affordability We've set up a competition to inspire film makers to look into the eyes of the housing and land affordability quagmire. There's a $3000 cash first prize and more to come. We rarely hear the real story of how land price appreciation is driving affordability pressures, so here's the
- [The Comics of Economics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/01/the-comics-of-economics/) - The Comics of Economics - featuring Ross Ashcroft 7pm, Thursday January 10th, Melbourne CBD In need of some FREE comedy to get your year on the roll? Start the year laughing at the tightrope we walk juggling our finances. Ever wondered why it's so difficult? Internationally acclaimed comedian Ross Ashcroft will take the mickey out
- [Baby Boomers Rule Property Market](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/08/baby-boomers-rule-property-market/) - .....so jumps the headline on p3 of today's Business Age. As we prepare to head off to the Baby Boomers Expo this weekend, we are armed with even more data on generational inequity. It may be just that little bit harder to bite our tongues as we go undercover, deep into the bowels of consumerism,
- [The War on Creativity](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/12/the-war-on-creativity/) - Ingrid Brooker's winning entry for the $3000 I Want to Live Here film comp. Well done Ingrid for a unique portrayal of these vital issues. Check the photostream of the night's festivities
- [Cartoons](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/cartoons/) - This is why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The rich own 80% of the board!
- [Earthsharing Workshop](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/earthsharing-workshop/) - Education by young people for young people Workshop Info Pack (PDF 46KB) What Is The Earthsharing Challenge? * An opportunity for an interactive workshop on land and natural resource use in your school * Ultimately - a challenge to students to be selected to attend a free environmental camp, with a hands on role in the production of a video on sustainability Outline Of The Challenge Starting with Earthsharing Workshops in Your School Two members of the Earthsharing team will come out to your school and take your students (Years 8 - 11) through a 45 minute interactive environmental learning experience. The workshop is based around Earthsharing Australia’s philosophy of land and natural resources as part of the Global Commons. More specifically we will explore current environmental issues, eco footprints and opportunities for further student involvement.
- [Earth Rights Democracy Tour Overview](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/earth-rights-democracy-tour-overview/) - Alanna Hartzok & Earth Rights for all Over 12 talks and 450 plus people heard Alanna’s core message – "We all have an equal right and a birth right to the Earth. The earth has a biological & ecological right to its future too. We are promoting a new form of property rights where what you build with your own hands, what you labour for, is your private property. You shouldn’t be taxed for something productive you are doing. What we are saying is that the gifts of nature, the land & natural resources of the earth belong to we the people. We all deserve a fair share of the profits from these natural gifts. This is a natural form of public finance policy”
- [Land Supply & Housing Affordability - more details](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/10/land-supply-housing-affordability-more-details/) - The real issue forcing land prices up are the huge economic rents available to land speculators. With Jeff Kennett’s move away from Site Value rating to Capital Improved Value (CIV) rating, land speculators can purchase land, sit on it and wait for the property to grow in value. The constant attack on State Land Taxes ensures a continuing trend for them to be weakened, sending the signal to the marketplace that hoarding land is appropriate. On a local level, the combination of these 2 factors has seen a growth of vacant land in inner urban areas in Melbourne. We believe the reduced supply of land from this speculative trend has applied greater pressure on land prices than Melbourne’s 2030 boundary. The huge upward trend in land prices happened well before the 2002 announcement of 2030.
- [Carbon Capping](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/earthsharing-opportunity-and-equity/) - Carbon Capping - A Citizen's Guide Leading Author Peter Barnes has summarised the carbon capping system in 22 easy to read pages. Essential reading on one of our most important and eloquent thinker, the guide describes three different ways to cap carbon: cap-and-giveaway, cap-and-auction, and cap-and-rebate. It explains how, “if done right, a descending economy-wide carbon cap is the single best tool to fight climate change.” But it warns that, “if done wrong, a cap won’t reduce emissions sufficiently and will transfer hundreds of billions of dollars from families to corporate polluters.” Read the full report here The guide has been released with a Creative Commons license, which means it can be freely reproduced and circulated.
- [Letters](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2007/01/letters/) - Hobart has made it into the big league! - Leo Foley Jan 23, The Mercury House prices have pushed us into the top 20 of unaffordable cities in the world. After seven years of boom, the legacy of this government, elected by ordinary working people, will be a city owned by the elites. It need not be so. House building is a competitive industry, and with proper foresight on trade skills, costs will always tend to rise only in line with wages and the general price index. The real ‘boom’ has been in land price. Speculation in real estate has pushed land beyond the price of Tasmanian wages. Young Tasmanian families are excluded from the market. That demands government action, not with more subsidies and grants that benefit only existing owners, but real tax reform that will overcome the existing market failure. Associate Professor (Economics) Graeme Wells points the way in his letter, 23 January. He says “There would be significant efficiency gains in moving from the present transactions tax to a flat-rate land tax.” Not only would it be efficient, it would also be equitable. The Labor government, under pressure on so many fronts, still has the opportunity to create conditions of prosperity for all Tasmanians, and to make home ownership a reality for following generations. Will it rise to the occasion? Leo Foley Lenah Valley, Tasmania Justice the Aim History's Lessons - Terry Dwyer The Australian
- [The Code to Housing Wastage](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/12/the-code-to-housing-wastage/) - Karl Fitzgerald on the mystery that is the housing supply crisis that ignores homes held empty for capital gains. A more holistic analysis is needed.
- [Van Badham - Digital Literacy meets Political Madness](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/11/van-badham-digital-literacy-meets-political-madness/) - Guardian journalist Van Badham delivers on the political machinations of two eras colliding - old monopoly media vs digital literacy = #policyfraud exposed.
- [Hoarding Without Consequence](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/11/hoarding-without-consequence/) - Catherine Cashmore joins to discuss the 7th Speculative Vacancy report into empty housing. Why do 64,386 properties exist in a record-long Housing Supply Crisis?
- [G20 Policy Exclusions](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/11/g20-policy-exclusions/) - Renegade Economists radio with Gary Flomenhoft on the things the G20 should be honing their policy in on. Peak oil, steady state economics, privatisations, land bubbles, property speculations, GMO, the list goes on.
- [ASX Investigations, Tax Evasion](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/11/asx-investigations-tax-evasion/) - The Renegade Economists on tax evasion in the G20 build up. What should our leaders be demanding? Also, David Collyer on another form of manipulation, of our land supply.
- [Taibbi's Divide a warning to Australia](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/10/taibbis-divide-a-warning-to-australia/) - John Jamieson review's Matt Taibbi's The Divide book with concern for Australia's 'fair go mate' future.
- [Policy Fraud](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/10/policy-fraud/) - Matt Ellis on the policy fraud that is allowing first home owners to use their super as a deposit. This is another prop for house and land prices, not a genuine affordability policy.
- [Think Tanks Blow Public Opinion](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/10/think-tanks-blow-public-opinion/) - Prof Michael Hudson interviewed on Renegade Economists radio on the history of US think tanks. Hear Michael Hudson in classic dinner party conversation on how Bill Clinton had his impeachment charges dropped, the power of the Koch Brothers and the economics of fracking in the 70s amongst many other issues.
- [New Aussie Mortgage Debt record](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/09/new-aussie-mortgage-debt-record/) - Philip Soos discusses the latest mortgage debt findings in light of the recent Senate Housing Affordability Inquiry presentation. What low hanging fruit could a courageous government reform to assist housing affordability?
- [Democratising Land Use](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/08/democratising-land-use/) - Karl Fitzgerald & Hank Herrera discuss the need for better land use. If we are sovereign nations, why do we virtually give away the right to own our land to those with the most capital? To predators rather than producers?
- [Putting the Commons in Creativity](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/08/putting-the-commons-in-creativity/) - Why is gentrification a by-product of technology, of community development? Neal Gorenflo & Janelle Orsi feature in this insight into how we can develop a fairer internet and fairer housing market.
- [Oakeshott - the danger to democracy](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/08/oakeshott-the-danger-to-democracy/) - An insiders perspective on why democracy fails to deliver on the public interest. Rent-seeking
- [Collaborative California](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/08/collaborative-california/) - Karl Fitzgerald presents on his Californian investigations. The sharing economy booms on some levels, a testing backwash for the rest of the community. How to balance it all?
- [Land in Question](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/06/land-in-question/) - Yoni Higginsmith shoots a beautiful piece on the fundamental role land plays in a our life. Share!
- [Roots Revolution](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/roots-revolution/) - Steve Wall's 1985 stripping of the green movement and it's need to address the primary importance of land ownership and where all wealth stems from.
- [Sacred Economics reviewed](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/09/sacred-economics-reviewed/) - Colin Cook Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein More of what matters, less of what costs the earth This is an engaging book for Eisenstein uses many fascinating analogies and parallels to frame his arguments and his vision for our post crunch future is a fully integrated set of proposals - Georgist philosophy being strongly featured.
- [Earthsharing Global Thunderclap](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/02/earthsharing-global-thunderclap/) - Our friends in the US are about to launch a new Earthsharing website. And guess what - a new social networking phenomena is upon us to help their launch. Thunderclap helps punch through the noise of 400 million tweets per day by sending out a time coordinated message. Watch this vid then sign up your
- [Quotations](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/10/quotations/) - Margarita Arias, Costa Rica: Only those who have fought for the right to protect their own bodies from abuse can truly understand the rape and plunder of our forests, rivers and soils. Aristotle (384-322BC): The whole of the land was in the hands of a few, and if the cultivators did not pay their rents, they became subject to bondage .. Marcus Aurelius (121-180AD): Poverty is the mother of crime. Cesare Baccaria: The history of mankind is an immense sea of errors in which few obscure truths may be found. Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary":
- [Extra Environmentalists: how Real Estate 4 Ransom drives the growth paradigm](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2014/01/extra-environmentalists-how-real-estate-4-ransom-drives-the-growth-paradigm/) - One of the world's leading podcasts, the Extra Environmentalists, has shown an increasing interest in Georgist economics over recent episodes. I sat on the other side of the fence for once, as the interviewee in Supply Shock - an exciting way to finish 2013. We covered many of the topics I race through on the
- [Bollier on Monopoly Profits to Finance Government](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/12/bollier-on-monopoly-profits-to-finance-government/) - Economic analysis has been hoodwinked into believing the affects of monopoly on the economy are minimal. David Bollier references a report that disproves this by at least ten times what thought.
- [Earth Sharing Mashup](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/08/earth-sharing-mashup/) - Jacob Schwartz-Lucas provides a useful overview to these themes, sampling a number of Georgist videos including Real Estate 4 Ransom and Fred Harrison's Silver Bullet. Part 2
- [Renegade Economists 300th Show](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/08/renegade-economists-300th-show/) - Renegade Economists 300th podcast As broadcast on 3CR radio, Wednesday July 31st. Listen here Subscribe to the free weekly podcast Transcript: Who Are Rising Property Prices Good For? Karl Fitzgerald: This week it’s back to the master blaster, Professor Michael Hudson. Michael Hudson, on our very special 300th episode of the Renegade Economists. We’re talking
- [Casino Capitalism: Treason](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/08/casino-capitalism-treason-pt-1/) - Author Fred Harrison's latest video is another excellent insight into the economic reforms needed. See part two on his vibrant video channel
- [Agriculture and best use](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/06/agriculture-and-best-use/) - Our old friend Frank de Jong takes us through the motivations behind monocropping and sprawl. Some similarities to what's going on in Werribee and Melton.
- [1% Win, 99% Pay](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/02/1-win-99-pay/) - Drill baby drill's mining industry and property's location, location, location are motivated by one and the same - the naturally rising value of the earth AKA economic rent. This free lunch is heavy on return, light on risk. Well to some anyway.
- [Real Estate 4 Ransom recognition](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2013/01/real-estate-4-ransom-recognition/) - One of the world's leading online film portals, Films for Action, has adjudged Real Estate 4 Ransom at #2 for documentaries in 2012. This ranked above Just Do It and 97% Owned. They say: Tapping into independent media and the independent films below, though, and it's clear that we're living during the beginnings of what
- [Irish Oil Sovereignty](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/12/irish-oil-sovereignty/) - Another gimp nation conned into giving away billions in natural resource rents whilst taxing workers. Austerity for some, long lunches for others. Watch Real Estate 4 Ransom for more on this topic.
- [Governing on the Downslope of Collapse](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/12/governing-on-the-upslope-and-collapse/) - Paul Meleng In the era that is now past, the Lucky country of Oz and the amazing USA grew on the back of free (or stolen) land and resources and a booming supply of energy. There was always something new for governments to give away or announce. "New" land and frontiers gave the brave an alternative to
- [Harnessing Monopoly for the Common Good](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/11/harnessing-monopoly-for-the-common-good/) - The Total Resource Rents of Australia - Report Release Tuesday November 20th, 6:30pm Presenter: Karl Fitzgerald Venue: 1/27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne Could the economic value of all forms of monopoly be capable of financing the three tiers of government? This report will demonstrate how the economic power of monopoly is capable of just this. Quantifying
- [Earth Sharing](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/10/earth-sharing/) - Share the Earth... on Prezi
- [Community & Economics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/07/community-economics/) - Tuesday July 24th 1/27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne 6.30 - 8pm Presenter: Karl Williams RSVP - gold coin event Countless studies have shown that a sense of community is one of the most important factors leading to happiness, fulfillment and the sense of a life well lived, no matter what the culture. But what do we
- [Sinking Thailand ](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/06/sinking-thailand/) - Alex Stott I live in Bangkok, Thailand’s exciting, sweaty capital city. A fantastic urban mega jungle containing at least 12 million people, some of the best food in the world and sky scrapers as far as the eye can see. Construction is booming and everything is accelerating skywards and outwards. Office buildings, gigantic air conditioned
- [Economic Rights as Human Rights](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/05/economic-rights-as-human-rights/) - Why Real Estate 4 Ransom has locked up the Great American Dream As published in Op-Ed News The promise of democracy delivers little for those with empty wallets. Genuine freedom will be established when economic rights are entrenched as human rights. Economics is the Greek term for the management of the household. To economise is
- [Real Estate 4 Ransom Precis](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/02/real-estate-4-ransom-precis/) - This article was written for the Sustainable Living Festival and can be downloaded The global economy crashed under the weight of excessive debt - debt caused by the giant ponzi scheme known as the real estate game. Drilling down, we see that it is high land prices that caused the debt drain. Greece had a
- [The Commons Movement Moving Forward](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/05/the-commons-movement-moving-forward/) - In the end, we are all on the same side.
- [A Lazy City Layout ](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/05/a-lazy-city-layout/) - Frank de Jong from Earthsharing Canada discusses how the poor usage of land effects a city's development, reflecting the struggle to understand the public and private benefits of our combined improvements. We had the great honour to tour Frank to Australia in 2007.
- [Frank de Jong Tour Wrap](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2007/08/frank-de-jong-tour-wrap/) - The leader of the Ontario Greens, Frank de Jong, delivered 12 talks during his Australasian 'Tools of Sustainability' tour. Frank finished off with a bang in NZ with over 100 people hearing his talk in Auckland. Check his multimedia page here to see and hear some of his radio, TV and recorded speeches. Frank was very strong at the True Cost Economics forum (TCE event report) on how the green tax shift can be used so that business does not face additional tax charges in the race to address climate change. An increase in carbon taxes must be counter-balanced by a decrease in payroll & consumption taxes.
- [Greenspan Fired](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/05/greenspan-fired/) - Out-takes from our Real Estate 4 Ransom interview with Prof Michael Hudson were simply too good to let go.
- [Real Estate 4 Ransom - the film](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/03/real-estate-4-ransom-live-on-online/) - Real Estate 4 Ransom from Real Estate 4 Ransom on Vimeo.
- [Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2012/03/sacred-economics-with-charles-eisenstein/) - Charles Eisenstein has a new book Sacred Economics and this short film discusses core concepts such as the monetary system, the commons and the land issue. Colleagues are raving about the book. Charles will soon be on the Renegade Economists radio show.
- [Answers for Indonesia](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/answers-for-indonesia/) - by Bryan Kavanagh, Director, Land Values Research Group President Suharto has been poorly counseled by the International Monetary Fund. Its economic prescriptions are pointless and wrong. He needs to take independent economic action if he is to avoid the social chaos erupting out of Indonesia's financial turmoil. He could do worse than immerse himself in the history of his own ‘Spice Islands', the wealth of which centuries ago attracted the Portuguese and the Dutch to the great chain stretching between Malaya and New Guinea. The Indonesian financial crisis is the result of a phenomenal land boom that was a re-run of the West's late-1980s boom period. It is little remembered that a very similar financial collapse was experienced by the 'Dutch East Indies' in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars, and that an amazing Englishman employed a successful technique to overcome it.
- [ The Economics of War - Cutting Natural Resources Out of the Equation](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/05/the-economics-of-war-cutting-natural-resources-out-of-the-equation/) - photo credit: gruntzooki David Smiley - Research Associate in the Department of Economics at Macquarie Uni In a previous article we tracked the failures of massive international efforts to reduce four global problems: poverty, human rights abuses, the degradation of the planet, and war. We asserted that these four problems cannot be solved separately and
- [Real Estate 4 Ransom this Sunday](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/10/real-estate-4-ransom-this-sunday/) - Our second Melbourne screening of Real Estate 4 Ransom will be a huge day. We hope you can join us. 2.15pm - Melbourne's Magic Money Walk 3.30pm - Federal Greens MP Adam Bandt introduces the film. 4.10pm - Co-Directors Karl Fitzgerald & Gavin Emmanuel Q & A 4.30pm - Drinks downstairs Melbourne's Magic Money Walk
- [Speculative Vacancies and Real Estate 4 Ransom](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/07/speculative-vacancies-and-real-estate-4-ransom/) - Download the Speculative Vacancies report As written up in The Age today, p5: Speculators 'locking up' empty dwellings that could be homes Michelle Griffin PROPERTY speculators have locked up 46,220 empty homes in metropolitan Melbourne, the housing campaign group Earthsharing Australia says. In a documentary soon to be released, Real Estate 4 Ransom, the group
- [Real Estate 4 Ransom trailer](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/07/real-estate-4-ransom-trailer/) - Real Estate 4 Ransom Official Trailer from Real Estate 4 Ransom on Vimeo. As written up in The Age today, read more at www.realestate4ransom.com
- [Steve Keen: To Bubble or Not to Bubble](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/04/steve-keen-to-bubble-or-not-to-bubble/) - Renegade Economists Podcast 178 As broadcast on the almighty 3CR, Wed 20th April, 2011. Renowned Australian economist and debt skeptic Steve Keen discusses the changing state of the Australian housing market. Why do some say we are not in a bubble? Dont Buy Now! Some of the topics discussed can be found in Steve's articles:
- [Speculative Vacancies Distort Supply & Demand](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/05/speculative-vacancies-distort-supply-demand/) - Australia’s endless debate about property prices pivots on the balance of supply and demand. Earthsharing’s Speculative Vacancies in Melbourne 2010 Report demonstrates that nearly five percent of all houses in Melbourne are simply empty and unused. The report identifies and measures the scale and extent of speculative vacancies – properties held out of use in
- [How Public Libraries add to Land Values](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/05/how-public-libraries-add-to-land-values/) - An interesting report by the Fels Institute of Government (University of Pennsylvania) was quoted in Yes Magazine: ... [We] found that within 1/4 mile of one of Philadelphia’s 54 branches, the value of a home rose by $9,630. Overall, Philadelphia’s public libraries added $698 million to home values—which in turn generated an additional $18.5 million
- [Vested Interests and their Scare Campaigns](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/05/vested-interests-and-their-scare-campaigns/) - The same old tricks when it comes to a tax that threatens their self interest:
- [Introducing .... Earthsharing Canada](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/03/introducing-earthsharing-canada/) - 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
- [Brave Slaves](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/01/brave-slaves/) - Renegade Economists podcast 164 Wendell Fitzgerald appears on the show to discuss the similarities between past and present forms of slavery. We traverse through the Global Financial Crisis, the mining tax debate and coffee table banter as this hour long special gets into the depths of how some people can make millions whilst the millions
- [Zap 2010](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2011/01/zap-2010/) - Renegade Economists Podcast 165 A year of highlights with audio snippets telling the year that it was. Featuring Robert McAlpine, Bryan Kavanagh, Emeretta Cross, Sharon Beder, Paraic Lally, Alanna Hartzok, Michael Hudson, Dave Giesen, Polly Cleveland, Keith Olbermann, Wendell Fitzgerald, Steven Spadijer, Ross Gittins, and Russell Edington. Listen to the audio story
- [Herman Daly - Scarcity Rents For All](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/07/herman-daly-scarcity-rents-for-all/) - photo credit: SvenDowideit Respected Ecological Economists Herman Daly writes in Modernizing Henry George: Economists have traditionally considered nature to be infinite relative to the economy, and therefore not scarce, and therefore properly priced at zero. But the biosphere is now scarce, and becoming more so every day as a result of growth of its large
- [No Unemployment in Squatter Cities](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/07/no-unemployment-in-squatter-cities/) - Interesting facts - no unemployment in squatter cities! With free access to land we can always keep busy helping someone. Read more on population.
- [Gen Y Bother](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/07/gen-y-bother/) - Read read, plead plead
- [The Commons Created](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/07/the-commons-created/) - View this neat video on the importance of the commons. What is missing?
- [Oil Magnates Clean Up on Tax Subsidies](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/07/oil-magnates-clean-up-on-tax-subsidies/) - Invest $340 million for a $12 billion return? Why not when you own politicians? The hidden side to corporate largesse is the tax breaks they receive.
- [War Spending Tricks](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/06/war-spending-tricks/)
- [What Can't Be Hidden from Revenue](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/06/what-cant-be-hidden-from-revenue/) - Phillipe Legrain First published in The Times as Tax land: it can’t be hidden from the Revenue Filling the gaping hole in the Government’s finances is, in George Osborne’s words, the “great national challenge of our generation”. Unwise spending cuts and tax rises could sap economic growth; unfair ones provoke political unrest; inaction a market
- [Earthsharing report reveals staggering 6.9% vacancy rate in Melbourne](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/06/earthsharing-report-reveals-staggering-6-9-vacancy-rate-in-melbourne/) - Casey Jenkins has re-interpreted the'I Want to Live Here' report with some useful graphs. As you may have read in the original report, we uncovered a genuine vacancy rate five times that reported by Real Estate Institute of Victoria; 6.9% compared to REIV's 1.4%. By collating data from Melbourne water suppliers we were able to
- [Chicken or Egg?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/05/chicken-or-egg/) - photo credit: adjustafresh tohm Week #7 If there is one behaviour that infuriates me no end from all my lecturers it is the ‘nudge-nudge, wink-wink’ hint dropping as to what is important for exams. I have one clear cut competitive advantage as a mature age/return to studies student. I have had customers. As a result
- [Resource Rents For All, Not Just Red Carpet Magnates](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/05/resource-rents-for-all-not-just-red-carpet-magnates/) - With the mining magnates armed with an $8m war chest to defend their ability to gouge monopoly rents off the productive sector of the economy, it's apt we put this video back up. Whose resources are these?
- [WIL Surprisingly Accurate](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/05/wil-surprisingly-accurate/) - Week #5 – Diary of Eco Finance student, analysing life student life with a critical view of economics
- [Week #4: Cultural Context](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/04/week-4-cultural-context/) - photo credit: Genista Tohm Curtis Sorry a little long this week, but it’s complicated. An amusing thing happened in today’s lecture, my lecturer apologised. Not to me, but to the student that emailed him in the previous week asking ‘How many decimal places do we need to calculate to?’ By the lecturer's account he responded
- [Week #3: ‘Ceterus Parabus’](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/04/week-3-‘ceterus-parabus’/) - Tohm Curtis As per week #1, the assumptions are what make Economics the ‘School of Thumbs’. This week though in a Finance subject we looked at the ‘supply and demand’ model of interest rates. It was a curious exercise in skepticism vs. standardisation. Basically it said, that Money Supply and Money Demand are inversely related
- [News Flash! Today Tonight report the obvious!](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/04/news-flash-today-tonight-report-the-obvious/) - photo credit: Patrick Hoesly I know! Shocking isn’t it? This evening, according to advertisements, they’ll be reporting on a matter almost as ground breaking as those stories we know and love along the lines of ‘Junk Food! It makes you fat!’, ‘Credit cards – they could put you in debt ' or any number of
- [Week #2: Can I have some Context?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/04/week-2-can-i-have-some-context/) - It’s week 2 and already I know I like my Finance subjects better than my Economics subjects. The key difference is: Context. I have a sneaking suspicion that Economists have made Economics far harder to teach (and understand) than it needs to be. For example ‘Marginal Propensity to x’ where ‘x’ can be ‘consume’ ‘save’
- [Diary of an Economics & Finance Student](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/03/diary-of-an-economics-finance-student/) - a comparison of economics from a marketing student's perspective. How realistic is 'rational behaviour'?
- [Drip Drip Land Supply](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/03/drip-drip-land-supply/) - Land supply is being hoarded by those who have read between the line of government tax policy to accept with glee that the speculators rights to profits trump the human right to a roof over our head.
- [Gen Y Housing Market Sleeper Election Issue ](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/02/gen-y-housing-market-a-sleeper-election-issue/) - 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
- [Vanuatu - The World's Happiest People?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/vanuatu-the-worlds-happiest-people/) - Karl Fitzgerald As published in the Mar - April Progress magazine. Get a copy of this cane paper, veggie ink mag sent to you for 6 free editions Related Event - Thurs April 30th - Vanuatu's Sovereignty Surrendered The World's Happiest People A 2006 study by the New Economics Foundation and Friends of the Earth
- [Lobbyocracy Writ Large](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2010/03/lobbyocracy-writ-large/) - Big money controls democracy, with land speculators at the top of the pyramid. This cartoon says it all!
- [The Law of Unintended Consequences](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/12/the-law-of-unintended-consequences/) - photo credit: nettopp Andy Moore Attracting the Green Vote Sustainability is about preserving the Earth for future generations by living in balance with the natural capital provided to us for free by nature. Ecological economists are working hard to design direct policies – like resource taxes and cap and trade systems to address this issue.
- [Real Estate 4 Ransom](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/11/real-estate-4-ransom/) - Our new campaign - time to jack things up.
- [Copenhagen & Lord Mockton ](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/11/copenhagen-lord-mockton/)
- [Hudson hints at why speculators are ignored in supply slide debate](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/11/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
- [Carbon Torment System](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/10/carbon-torment-system/)
- [Population Myth V Energy Consumers](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/10/population-myth-v-energy-consumers/) - photo credit: Listener42 George Monbiot writes another sterling piece, this time dispelling population as the bugbear of global warming. Click on our population tag to read other critiques of this issue - namely the link between poverty, education and poor health on population growth rates. The Population Myth It’s no coincidence that most of those
- [Bye Bye First Home Owners Grant](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/09/bye-bye-first-home-owners-grant/)
- [Earth Rights & Poverty](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/09/earth-rights-poverty/) - The second part to the Silver Bullet.
- [Economics for Activists 2009](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/08/economics-for-activists-2009/) - Tuesday September 8 - 22nd, 6.15 - 8pm 1/ 27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne Universal economic laws must be understood if we are to change the system. How can we engage in this game of life without understanding the rules of engagement in this money dominated paradigm? Learn to speak in the same language as the
- [The Human Right to the Earth](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/09/the-human-right-to-the-earth/) - A fantastic clip promoting this key Harrison book - The Silver Bullet
- [PNG Carbon Goldmine Concern](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/09/png-carbon-goldmine-concern/) - photo credit: backpackphotography Today's Age report on Carbon Cowboys Riding High THE Australian at the heart of Papua New Guinea's carbon trading rush is entrepreneur and racing identity Kirk Roberts, who is believed to have convinced many tribal groups to sign their rainforests up for future use as carbon credits. Mr Roberts, who runs his
- [Timber Schemes expose power of tax](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/05/timber-schemes-expose-power-of-tax/) - photo credit: miak The present collapse in Managed Investment Scheme's was inevitable. The power of the tax system saw companies like Gunns planting trees around the clock in years gone by, just to meet the immense demand from tax-minimising activities. Kohler wrote in 2004 that upwards of 10 million gum trees were planted in the
- [Greenwash to wedge politics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/05/greenwash-to-wedge-politics/) - photo credit: corvidmagic The world of pass-the-buck hit home with Rudd's cop out yesterday. It's too hard for us, let's 'leave it to Obama to sort it out in Copenhagen'. Perhaps Obama has given the ALP a get out of jail card with the Democrat's Waxman-Markey Bill beginning it's long path through Congress. The US
- [118th Henry George Commemorative Dinner](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/08/118th-henry-george-commemorative-dinner/) - 118th Henry George Commemoration Address Tuesday Sept 1st Speaker: Mr J Kennedy Bennett, Coordinator of Site Rating Defence A rates analyst for 19 years with valuation work across 12 councils, his current project is uniting the Monash ratepayers behind a full economic disclosure model. We get to hear it first. Enjoy the welcoming atmosphere of
- [Innovative Methods Of Financing Public Transportation](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2007/02/innovative-methods-of-financing-public-transportation/) - by Dave Wetzel The income from fares is usually insufficient to pay for both the capital costs and operating expenses of a modern mass transit system. Public transportation managers strive to provide safe, efficient, affordable, reliable, comfortable, clean, and convenient journeys for passengers. The service provided not only enables millions of people to travel but also has wider economic, social, and environmental impacts on urban life. When planning for new public transportation investments, wider economic benefits are usually cited as an important reason for governments to provide subsidies towards the costs of construction and maintenance.
- [Economics for Activists](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2007/03/economics-for-activists/) - A highly successful event, stay tuned for further courses Tuesday evenings in May, 6.15pm - 8pm, starting May 1st Location: Level One, 27 Hardware Lane, CBD - between Bourke & Little Bourke Sts 9670 2754 Ever wanted to read between the lines of the newspaper? Arm yourself with the tools of modern warfare as Karl Fitzgerald takes you through the key understandings required to 'follow the money'. Topics covered: Economic terminology - the basic framework Economic History via: The Classical - Neo-Classical - Neo-Liberal dichotomy
- [Anatomy of the GFC](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/07/anatomy-of-the-gfc/) - Date: Thursday July 23rd Time: 6.30pm Venue: Frank Halkyard Library, 1/27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne Speaker: Bryan Kavanagh, Research Associate, LVRG Few predicted the GFC, but Bryan Kavanagh did way back in 2001. Greenshoots? How bad WILL the Global Financial Crisis be? Why did our economists fail us? What’s the future of real estate? Come and
- [Hudson on Bubble History](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/07/hudson-on-bubble-history/) - Hudson enters at the 5 min mark. Check the other parts to the Keiser interview
- [Process of Evaluation](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/07/process-of-evaluation/) - This clip is produced by a student of Fred Foldvary's, Jesslyn Farros. Fred gave an excellent talk on the GFC late last year and has been interviewed on the Renegade Economists, where he gave a fascinating insight to the similarities between georgism, anarchism and austrian economics and expands on thiscommentary on Silvio Gessell here. Well
- [Propping up the System - Sir John Whitmore](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/06/propping-up-the-system-sir-john-whitmore/)
- [Economic Slavery Explained](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/06/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
- [Swan wimps out to property lobby](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/05/swan-wimps-out-to-property-lobby/) - With all the promise of a tough budget, the biggest concern is the limp wristed, white flag response to the First Home Owners Grant (FHOG). Rudd's recent mention that' the FHOG won't go on forever' must have seen some furious lobbying in the halls of power by the Ron Silverberg's (HIA) of the property lobby.
- [Globalisation belittled](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/06/globalisation-belittled/) - Dare we mention that even the power of Starbucks is belittled by the ultimate monopoly power of the landlord! This is why we can benefit from $10 jeans (and say a prayer for the sweatshop workers as we hand over our money) but yet we still have no real improvement in our lives. Where has
- [Will Higher Handouts Help Uni Students?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/07/will-higher-handouts-help-uni-students/) - Is marrying your housemate the way to survive uni? That's the question Farrah Tomazin puts forward in today's blockbuster edition of the Age as she discusses recomendations for higher Austudy payments. This will see a short term benefit for students being able to afford more food. However, those versed in economics will understand that in
- [Policy Makers Please consider...](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/06/policy-makers-please-consider/)
- [Oil Tax for All](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/06/oil-tax-for-all/) - photo credit: woody1778a Michael Hiltzik, LA Times, writes (including a comment from Mason Gaffney): The most persistent misconception about Californians is that we hate to raise taxes. The truth is that we adore raising taxes -- as long as someone else is paying, that is. So nonsmokers vote to raise cigarette taxes, teetotalers to raise
- [Brumby's Sprawl-athon Unravels](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/06/brumbys-sprawl-athon-unravels/) - PLANS to contain Melbourne's urban sprawl are "stone dead" and the city's cherished green wedge zones are in danger, according to a leading planner who has worked closely with the State Government. RMIT University Associate Professor Michael Buxton has slammed plans by Premier John Brumby to expand Melbourne's urban areas by at least 23,000 hectares
- [The Goyder Line, Climate Change and Marginal Land](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/06/the-goyder-line-climate-change-and-marginal-land/) - photo credit: Stephen Barnett The infamous Goyder Line raises important issues for those concerned about climate change. The climate's influence in drastically increasing the amount of marginal land and the flow through effects this will have on wages, communities and common sense are important issues we should all understand. Our unique commentary follows... Charles Gent
- [Skaters Make Use of Key Resources](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/01/skaters-make-use-of-key-resources/) - photo credit: tunaboat A new phenomenon is sweeping the globe as housing foreclosures render thousands of dwellings vacant and 'of no use' according to two dimensional economics. Skateboarders are draining the vacant swimming pools and using them to skate in. The NY Times reports that: “We have more pools than we know what to do
- [Betrayal of the Lords](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/02/betrayal-of-the-lords/) - Fred Harrison and the Motherlode team deliver the goods! Make sure you check his extensive list of clips too.
- [Predators circle bushfire victims in cheap land bid ](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/02/predators-circle-bushfire-victims-in-cheap-land-bid/) - photo credit: raindog Disgusted real estate agents are fielding calls from predators seeking cheap "scorched land for sale". Greedy landlords also have been caught trying to rent overpriced rooms to survivors who have lost everything. One wanted $400 a week for a house worth $200. We certainly are not surprised. With thousands of empty houses
- [Norway's oil rents irrational](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/05/norways-oil-rents-irrational/) - photo credit: Aidan.Morgan We read here how Norway's oil rents have been more wisely invested than the UK's. Fair point, but it still implies that we have failed to learn from the GFC: Still, even Ibsen might concede that it is easier to stand alone when your nation has benefited from oil reserves that make
- [Lynne Twist on the soul of money](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/05/lynne-twist-on-the-soul-of-money/) - Lynne Twist is author of The Soul of Money and provides a big picture analysis of resource scarcity.
- [Let infrastructure pay for itself!](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/05/let-infrastructure-pay-for-itself/) - photo credit: dsearls Gavin R. Putland Everybody wins when we tax the benefits of infrastructure to cover the costs DON RILEY owned properties near two stations on a new section of London's underground Jubilee Line. The rise in the value of his properties outweighed all the tax he paid in the previous 40 years. In
- [Vanuatu's Sovereignty Surrendered](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/vanuatus-sovereignty-surrendered/) - How independence was never intended to mean freedom When: Thurs April 30th, 6.30 for 6.45pm start Who: Karl Fitzgerald, Earthsharing Australia Project Coordinator and 3CR's Renegade Economist. Download Flyer Vanuatu means 'Eternal Land'. However, our recent visit to these idyllic lands revealed a dark side to the beauty surrounding such a community. Economic policy is
- [East Timor the Steven Bradbury of SWF's!](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/east-timor-the-steven-bradbury-of-swfs/) - photo credit: J.P. Esperança East Timor's Sovereign Wealth Fund has outperformed all the big boys by playing it conservative. Well done! East Timor's oil fund is thriving thanks to boring investment. IN THE East Timorese capital's joke of a "financial district", roosters scratch in the dust as a family of goats bleat at vendors selling
- [Recent Media](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/recent-media/) - photo credit: takomabibelot Project Coordinator Karl Fitzgerald has been interviewed on 2 recent radio programs: RRR - 16 March Monday 10am - on the GFC and Speed Renting, with a little Vanuatu on the side. 3CR - 06 April Monday 7.30am - on the G20, the GFC and Pacific issues. Make sure you join the
- [Gordon Browns Out Bubbles](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/gordon-browns-out-bubbles/)
- [The Madness of Garbage Island](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/02/the-madness-of-garbage-island/) - Chemical Bisphenal A beware!
- [Foreign investors exploit cheap Vanuatu land](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/04/foreign-investors-exploit-cheap-vanuatu-land/) - Last night's 7.30 Report saw the long awaited report on Vanuatu's freedom being curtailed by foreign investors. The high rents are hurting, as is the understanding of the lost opportunities when millions in profits are being siphoned out of the country by the real estate industry . This industry is largely dominated by expat aussies
- [FHOG is Subprime-like ](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/fhog-is-subprime-like/) - Commonwealth bank CEO Ralph Norris made some sensible comments about the first home owners grant, note particularly the second paragraph on the FHOG enabling the same risky lending as the sub prime lending practices in the US. "The first home buyers grant has provided a stimulus to this point, but we have to be careful
- [Obama's surface commentary on bankers](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/obamas-surface-commentary-on-bankers/) - photo credit: telemetry9 Max Keiser sums it up in rapid-fire succession: So let me get this straight. Banking elite, and other government insiders, defrauded savings accounts, pension funds, charitable funds and municipal funds here and around the globe by trading in worthless financial instruments; they manipulated markets and destroyed legitimate businesses along the way; and
- [Georgism In Australia: The First Thirty Years](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/georgism-in-australia-the-first-thirty-years/) - by Professor Geoffrey Hawker The Henry George Commemoration Address given on 1 September, 1996 Tonight we could anticipate the time a year hence when the life of Henry George, on the centenary of his death, will be celebrated in so many parts of the world. My hope is that my remarks tonight will play some positive part, however small, in that soon forthcoming review of the man and the movement. Tonight though my subject is less Henry George as a man and a life than Georgism as a movement of social and political change in Australia. Let me start with the much celebrated visit of Henry George to Australia in 1890. When he spoke at the Sydney Town Hall - barely a hundred yards from where we are gathered tonight - he was greeted by large and enthusiastic crowds - as indeed he was in the other towns he visited in Victoria, South Australia and Queensland during his visit.
- [Detroit crew rebuild $100 house into green community](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/detroit-rebuilds-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
- [Sustaining What?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/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
- [Empty Spaces](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/empty-spaces/) - photo credit: euzesio Mason Gaffney February 2009 “Phantom faces at the window. Phantom shadows on the floor. Empty chairs at empty tables Where my friends will meet no more” – from Alain Boublil, Les Mis Many stores have closed in the last year; they stand empty behind signs reading “Available”, “For lease”, or “First month free”. So have
- [Grants distort lending in the housing market](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/grants-distort-lending-in-the-housing-market/) - photo credit: tanakawho This article was so good we contacted Australia's best e-news Crikey to re-print. A must read Adam Schwab writes: If the only property data you looked related to the lower end, first home buyers sector, you would be forgiven for thinking we are in the midst of an economic boom, rather than
- [Helicopter Ben ](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/helicopter-ben/) - Did he learn anything from his studies of the Depression?
- [Letter to the Socialist Alternative](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/letter-to-the-socialist-alternative/) - photo credit: sludgegulper In Socialist Alternative, issue 13, February-March 2009, which was circulated widely in Orientation Week at the University of Queensland, the first page proclaims that “Capitalism Caused this Disaster”. The correct slogan should be that “Land Parasitism caused this disaster”. At least two thirds of the cost of urban houses and buildings is
- [Hudson on Max Keiser](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/03/hudson-on-max-keiser/) - Our dreams have been answered! Max Keiser interviews Michael Hudson. Keiser runs one of the worlds most popular economics based podcasts, that often has the team cracking up at the unconventional but highly entertaining Keiser and his well versed co-host Stacey. Hudson has an oracle message - does it get through Max? Check out the
- [Confessions of an Economic Hitman](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/02/confessions-of-an-economic-hitman/) - A fantastic book to read (reminded me of an early Ludlum book...tho this is as real as it gets), author John Perkins talks about the background to his writing. Readers of this site will put 2 + 2 together as to who really benefits from the work of these engineering behemoths.
- [Hudson - Orwellian Doublethink: "Nationalize the banks." "Free Markets."](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/02/hudson-orwellian-doublethink-nationalize-the-banks-free-markets/) - Warm up by watching the above, then read the latest from Michael Hudson, who is writing up a storm on the inside motivations to banksters bailouts world-wide. Michael Hudson as published on Global Research Banking shares began to plunge Friday morning after Senator Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat who is chairman of the banking committee, said
- [Earthsharing on twitter](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/02/earthsharing-on-twitter/) - photo credit: keiyac Well we've got the facebook group, the youtube page and thought that twitter would assist our desire to change the world! So follow us on twitter as we set up the next round of Speed Renting, the film comp, our work on housing affordability, the radio show...the list goes on. Remember you
- [Real Estate information sources under fire](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/01/real-estate-information-sources-under-fire/) - photo credit: dirkjanranzijn Our I Want to Live Here report was quoted in yesterday's Age eyebrow raiser Agent's accused of hyping-up' rental crisis to lure buyers. Whilst the article could have gone further, we were pleased to see that Simon Baxter today wrote a letter in support: Get real on property BRAVO to Natalie Craig
- [Past Events](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/12/past-events/) - Check out some of the events we have done in the past Intentional Communities 2007 True Cost Economics report Frank de Jong's "Tools of Sustainability Tour" Unlocking the Riches Real Estate Bust of 2010 Land Supply & Housing Affordability Event report Earth Rights Democracy Tour Report
- [Economics for Activists 2008](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/09/e4a/) - Short Course - 4 x Tuesdays starting Oct 14th* 6.15 - 8pm Following last year's highly successful Economics for Activists series, Karl Fitzgerald (3CR - Renegade Economists) returns to provide these gold coin sessions. Investigate universal economic laws and how they influence our everyday lives as activists, advocates and solid citizens. Now more than ever
- [The Recession We Could Have Avoided ](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/10/the-recession-we-could-have-avoided/) - Presented by Dr Gavin Putland Thursday November 6th, 6.45pm As the panic sets in and discussions about a new financial framework at the Bretton Woods 2 meeting grow, Dr Putland will measure up the trends that continue to lead us into asset bubbles. What can be done to avoid them? What should the G20 countries
- [Vanuatu's Land Rights building momentum](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/01/vanuautus-land-rights-building-momentum/) - Following our recent visit to Vanuatu, a colleague put this together, reflecting the heartfelt concern ni-Van's have for their rapidly dwindling land ownership. Just 29 years since independence, only 11% of land in Villa is locally owned. As Morris Kaloran states: "No matter what factory they use, they cant make any more dirt." We will
- [A bid to save pristine land](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/01/a-bid-to-save-pristine-land/) - photo credit: Fool-On-The-Hill A renegade environmentalist has stepped into the breach to stop one of GW's last acts of terror - selling off pristine land for oil and exploration at bargain prices. A bid to save pristine land: Tim DeChristopher, a 27-year-old college student, had slipped into the auction room and saw a woman he
- [8 Minutes of Madness](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/01/8-minutes-of-madness/) - As Obama blasts through his first day with strong words on lobbyists (phew), this unique summary of the 8 years of hellish politics we have gladly left behind is summarised like you would not believe. Please check this out.
- [Jim Hansen on Carbon Tax](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/01/jim-hansen-on-carbon-tax/) - photo credit: Fotos de Carrio Our repeated calls for a carbon tax have been heeded by none other than NASA's Climate Change expert Jim Hansen: 'We have only four years left to act on climate change - America has to lead': In particular, the idea of continuing with "cap-and-trade" schemes, which allow countries to trade
- [2008 I Want to Live Here report release](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/12/2008-i-want-to-live-here-report-release/) - Media Release Housing Shortage in Inner City a Myth 2,317 properties have been found empty in central Melbourne during Australia's worst ever housing crisis. Read the Full Report (PDF 432kb) “The 2008 I Want to Live Here report has found a 7% genuine vacancy rate in the inner city as compared to the much publicised
- [Commercial Property next US bailout industry?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2009/01/commercial-property-next-us-bailout-industry/) - photo credit: °Florian C'mon you can't be serious but that's what the lobbyists are looking for with commercial property in dire straits in the US. The NY Times reports: Just as home loans were pooled, then carved up and sold to investors as securities over the last two decades, commercial property loans were repackaged for
- [Rudd's Carbon Cop Out](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/12/rudds-carbon-cop-out/) - Still in shock at the ALP's audacious handout to the nation's biggest polluters, we thought it time to broach a few of the details hidden within the 824 page Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) White Paper. Billions of dollars of the commons is proposed to be given away by the climate scheme. Permanent and inalienable
- [Speculators Flipping Our Freedom](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/11/speculators-flipping-our-freedom/) - Why should land speculator's make more in their sleep than we do sweating away over a lifetime? This trend has led to the financial meltdown but yet they are being bailed out.... The modern world's problems demand the most accurate financial tools on our side. Here we sum up the problems and give an overview
- [The Commons](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/11/the-commons/)
- [Neo Con Land Policy Shot Down](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/11/neo-con-land-policy-shot-down/) - photo credit: jorel314 Ben Schneiders hit out at the IPA/ Costello push for land supply forever in this cunning article: IT WAS one of the most pernicious of the myths peddled during the 2007 federal election campaign - that state Labor governments were largely to blame for the record low levels of housing affordability and
- [Gordon Brown to the Rescue? video](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/10/gordon-brown-to-the-rescue-video/) - Fred Harrison Press Conference at the Foreign Press Association, London
- [Boom Bust video - $45 Trillion wipeout](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/10/boom-bust-video-45-trillion-wipeout/) - As sharemarkets crash around the world, the wrong people are being bailed out. Lower interest rates, infrastructure projects and money for the AIG's of the world will only prop up land prices. Infact, policy makers couldn't do any worse if they tried. We actually need land prices to fall back to long term averages. About
- [Land Supply chestnut rolled out again](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/10/land-supply-chestnut-rolled-out-again/) - photo credit: _temaki_ Buyers look for existing houses as land prices soar rolls out all the old chestnuts: Economic forecaster BIS Shrapnel says the demand for newly built houses is dropping off as the cost of land soars. It says the limited supply of new land has led to the growth in land prices outstripping
- [Renegade Economists Show 55](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/09/renegade-economists-show-55/) - photo credit: h.koppdelaney Shock Doctrine of Bankers Bailout Download the Renegade Economists Podcast now! Show Notes - 24/9/2008 Karl & Andrew cover the US financial woes amidst the shock of proposed US electoral roll reforms in Michigan, where voters will be struck off if their house is foreclosed! The property boom-bust cycle is explained with
- [Wall St Transparency](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/09/wall-st-transparency/) - photo credit: Ryan McD It seems like American's have finally cottoned onto this Administration. Michael West sums it up: HENRY Paulson has got to be kidding. He wants American taxpayers to hand a cool $US700 billion ($A833 billion) to his pals on Wall Street in return for a gigantic bundle of their delinquent assets …
- [Frank de Jong's Multimedia](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2007/08/frank-de-jongs-multimedia/) - Listen: Frank de Jong interviewed on RRR's 'The Word' (13.9MB, 15 mins) Watch: NZ YouTube interview (5mins) Frank de Jong's full speech 'Combatting Greenwash Locally' (VLGA, July 26th, 40mins)
- [US Banking Intervention](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/09/us-banking-intervention/) - Michael Hudson on the highly respected Democracy Now, telling the inside story on the bankers bailouts. Hudson was recently interviewed on the Renegade Economists, giving insights on the banking system like few others can. Skip to the 10 minute mark if time is your issue, that's when host Amy Goodman introduces the Hudson segment. However,
- [Rudd's $500m subsidy for speculators](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/09/rudds-500m-subsidy-for-speculators/) - Today's big announcement promoted by the Rudd government: The $512 million Housing Affordability Fund, promised before the last election, is expected to help 50,000 new home buyers in the next five years. "What I am signalling loud and clear is that we want to tackle the housing affordability crisis for Australian families which has gotten
- [A Fair Deal On South African Land reform?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/09/a-fair-deal-on-south-african-land-reform/) - photo credit: derekkeats Mark Braund Guardian UK The South African government's recent decision to abandon its Expropriation Bill, aimed at addressing the painfully slow pace of land reform, prompts the question: how can the country move towards a more equitable distribution of land and natural resources 14 years after the end of apartheid? Given the
- [Economic Rehab - Lesson 2: Efficiency](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/09/economic-rehab-lesson-2-efficiency/) - Tohm Curtis continues his slightly sarcastic journey into the underpinnings of economics Okay in Lesson 1, I concluded with the not so startling revelation that the economy was ultimately limited by the external environment or reality. Economics is a science because it's constrained by reality, and hence people use observations to make predictions on how
- [Sales Plummet - Suprise Suprise](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/09/sales-plummet-suprise-suprise/) - photo credit: Daquella manera MELBOURNE'S property market has slumped dramatically over the past three months - and by a staggering 44 per cent over the past year. We must reiterate that buyers are on hold because land prices have escalated to such epic proportions. Auction prices now constitute over 7 times the average wage, more
- [Economic Rehab :Lesson 1 - Economics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/08/lesson-1-economics/) - photo credit: mhalon as according to Tohm Curtis a new series outlining why Economic Rehab is crucial What does ‘Economics’ mean…there’s some confusion as to whether it is a science or a philosophy? Wikipedia can provide some insight into the history of economics. I think though that maybe the simple starting point is: Economics is
- [I Want to Live Here Report released](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/i-want-to-live-here-report/) - Land Supply Strangled by Speculators Earthsharing Australia has released the first 'I Want to Live Here' Report, demonstrating the extent to which speculative vacancies are the hidden issue in the housing affordability debate. The 'I Want to Live Here' report found that 1058 people could live on vacant sites within the Bluestone Ward (City of
- [Geonomics: Recovery of Site-Rents for Urban Density](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/geonomics-recovery-of-site-rents-for-urban-density/) - Jeffery J. Smith, President, Forum on Geonomics [A paper submitted to the BSA of the AIA, 2003] Around the world, a few dozen cities collect ground rents - some of the money that people spend or are willing to spend on a location - rather than tax buildings and other economic goods. Besides raising public revenue more efficiently, these places also motivate efficient use of urban land. No longer taxed for improving their property, while prodded by a rent levy to make improvements, owners who had been speculating or procrastinating get busy and put their once under-utilized land to better use. Overall, better land use raises density in particular and livability in general - goals that other jurisdictions still long for.
- [Unlocking the Riches to Oz - 15th June](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2007/06/unlocking-the-riches-to-oz-15th-june/) - Unlocking the Riches of Oz - Fri June 15th, 7.15pm The launch of Bryan Kavanagh's (LVRG) groundbreaking report. or Unlocking the Riches of Oz - the Decision Makers presentation 10am, Thurs June 21st, Hardware Lane A night of insight as Bryan takes us through his world leading statistics, analysing economic trends over the 34 years the report covers. Bryan is an experienced property valuer of 32 years. He is one of the world's leading analysts on the inter-relationship between land and the economy. Did you know that Australia has probably the most accurate land value records in the world?
- [Alanna Hartzok: Earth Rights Democracy Tour](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/alanna-hartzok-earth-rights-democracy-tour/) - May 3 – 23, 2006 Melbourne – Hobart – Brisbane – Sydney Alanna Hartzok is a Co-leader of the Earth Rights Institute and a UN NGO representative. She has worked extensively with the UN HABITAT on local funding issues and has a long list of public speaking engagements including the World Urban Forum, US Institute for Ecological Economics Conference, and the Eastern Economics Association Conference (NY). Lecturer, legislative reformer and grass roots activist Alanna Hartzok’s vast array of interests sees her moving between villages in Nigeria to the halls of power at the UN. Her central focus is that with greater insight we can orchestrate a tax shift policy that addresses major local and global problems.
- [True Cost Economics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/true-cost-economics/) - The 2006 Forum was a great success with organisers excited by the turnout on the day. Alanna Hartzok's powerpoint presentation on an extensive form of Green Tax Shifting can be downloaded. The 2007 TCE Forum will be held in mid July, featuring Frank De Jong, leader of the Ontario (Canada) Greens. The True Cost Economics forum is attempting to link the industries of Science, Insurance and Economics together. Science is leading the way with the evidence of Global Warming. The rapidly increasing cost of Insurance is alerting us of the dangers to ignoring nature’s law. Economics needs to direct the behaviour of consumers towards looking after the planet.
- [Interest Rates cause of Recession?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/08/interest-rates-cause-of-recession/) - photo credit: megananne Here we go again! The Reserve Bank is worried it raised interest rates too high. Is that what has caused this downturn? The real cause of this looming recession is the rampant over investment in land. This has pushed land prices to double the long term average in Australia, at 6.6 times
- [Recessionary forces building fast - $5K US homes](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/07/recessionary-forces-building-fast-5k-us-homes/) - A home bought for $110,000 in Flint, Michigan (2005) was recently foreclosed and can't be sold for even $5,000. In an ominous sign of financial troubles; Fannie Mae acquired twice as many homes through foreclosure in the first quarter as it sold, regulatory filings show. The oversupply of homes is now coming home to hurt
- [Overworked, Over thinking](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/07/overworked-over-thinking/) - Carol Nader reports in the Age that HUNDREDS of children are spending 60 hours or more a week in child care, a Federal Government report has revealed. The article then critiques the Federal Government's policy of encouraging as many mothers as possible into the workforce. What are the underlying economic forces encouraging such workforce participation?
- [The True Cost of Food](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/07/the-true-cost-of-food/) - A kilogram of beef contains between 15,000 and 100,000 litres of embodied water. For every kilogram of wheat grown in Australia, seven kilograms of topsoil are lost. We give lip service to concerns about peak oil and greenhouse gases, yet our agricultural industry is utterly dependent on unsustainable quantities of polluting petrochemicals. There’s no reason
- [116th Annual Henry George Dinner](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/116th-annual-henry-george-dinner/) - Thursday September 7th, 6pm onwards Special Guest speaker: Professor Michael Young (Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, CSIRO & Adelaide Uni) Prince Patrick Hotel 135 Victoria Pde, Collingwood (near Hoddle St) We are proud to present the 116th Dinner to celebrate the birthday of Henry George, the visionary who saw that the bounty of the earth was every citizen's birthright. Professor Michael Young will give the keynote address on Water in a Georgist paradigm. He will discuss this hot topic in light of the political realities of water management in the future. How much should we pay for water? Would Henry George have recommended that water as well as land be taxed?
- [The Village Green, Urban Sprawl and Affordability](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/06/the-village-green-urban-sprawl-and-affordability/) - Andrew Sadauskas It was a cold Thursday morning when I set out on my quest. My mission? To find the heart of Melbourne's housing affordability and traffic problems. My quest took me to the middle of Melbourne's great southeastern sprawl, which now stretches as far as Pakenham. After a morning spent hunting for it on
- [Who Owns Anglesea?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/06/who-owns-anglesea/) - The brand new 10 min film from the 2007 Earthsharing Challenge. A dozen high school students interviewed local experts on the pressures of housing affordability. Questions are asked about whether holiday home owners, locals or speculators own Anglesea? Where do young people or the community's values fit in? This important analysis is vital viewing.
- [Amend UN Human Rights ](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/06/ammend-un-human-rights/) - Ammend the UN Human Rights by signing this petition. The United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights is failing humankind. Indeed it's failing planet Earth itself. The evidence is everywhere: a billion citizens live and die on a dollar a day; people lack control over their own community's resources; terrorism, war and unrest threaten everyone;
- [Reconciliation and the Consciousness Gap](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/06/reconciliation-and-the-consciousness-gap/) - Andrew Sadauskas It would be a gross understatement to point out that there is a significant gap between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians. Following the introduction of the Northern Territory Intervention, as well as commitments made by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson following the Apology to the Stolen Generations, this gap has
- [Land Value Capture in Geelong?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/06/land-value-capture-in-geelong/) - The City of Greater Geelong has sent in an interesting submission to the Commonwealth Senate Housing Affordability inquiry. We could hardly have said it any better ourselves: In the submission, the council says the capital being acquired by the private market when land is rezoned could be captured by the Government. "Across Australia, communities are
- [Capitalism's Change Agents](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2007/01/capitalisms-change-agents/) - What limits politicians in their ability to address Global Warming? What reforms do we need to help them?
- [2am Nightclub Lock Out](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/06/2am-nightclub-lock-out/) - Victorian Premier Brumby has acted swiftly to be on the so-called front foot over late night violence. The 2am lock for 75% of Melbourne's vibrant venues has opened up a slimy can of worms. Brumby has allowed 112 license holders an exemption. Such a protection of privilege has enriched those lucky few by many thousands
- [Land Inspection Now - Exhibition](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/05/land-inspection-now-exhibition/) - From 99 suburbs across Melbourne, 99 samples of land extracted, valued, individually packaged, sold! Tonight is auction night for inspirational artist David Short's exhibition of 10 x 10cm blocks of land. He has valued each piece of land from every suburb according to local council valuations and tonight is your chance to buy a slice
- [Multimedia Campaigns ](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2007/08/iw2lh/) - ***New Report***IW2LH study on Bluestone Ward, Maribyrnong Watch IW2LH 30 Second Get-Up clip To Affordable Housing: Australia Says No Frank de Jong launches 'I Want to Live Here Campaign' (PDF 163kb) Join our Economic Detectives!
- [Challenge DVD](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/05/challenge-dvd/) - Get your school watching this insight into the environmental issues we all face. From water to energy to living miles away from a city, check this 23 min DVD to learn about the crucial issues of our times. See our young team interview experts from various fields. Teaching quuestions are included in the send out,
- [Henry George](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/henry-george/) - Henry George was a hugely popular social philosopher in the late 19th Century. His book Progress & Poverty stormed the world in the 1880’s by taking David Ricardo's Law of Rent to its logical conclusion. George spelt out how current land ownership laws set up a pyramid society for the rich to live off the poor. His simple but emotionally inspired writings alerted the people to this travesty. He also provided a solution. This led to a worldwide Georgist movement. Henry George was the first economist to demonstrate that taxes based on resources - which he called land tax, or the 'single tax' - produced the greatest prosperity with the least adverse effects. He demonstrated how poverty and unemployment could be destroyed by the removal of all current taxation and the replacement with his 'single tax'. Naturally, proposing to tax resources upset the wealthy elite of his day and so he was bitterly opposed. People like Albert Einstein, Alfred Deakin and Mark Twain all saw George as one of the most important intellectuals of the Classical era. Some say the success created by George led to the death of Classical Economics. Proof of his popularity in Australia saw some 10,000 people attend George’s inspirational speech at the Melbourne Exhibtion Centre in 1890. Similar numbers followed his talks around the country. He gained such strong support by making economics understandable to the average man. "Men like Henry George are rare unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice."
- [Letter to Gorbachev](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/letter-to-gorbachev/) - * FOUR of the West's top economists - Nobel prize-winners Franco Modigliani, James Tobin, Robert Solow and William Vickrey - were among the signatories to an open letter to Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990/1991. The economists urged the Soviet President to retain land in public ownership, and to raise government revenue by charging rent for the use of land. * Had he acted upon their advice Gorbachev may have strengthened his hand, but was unceremoniously dumped in favour of Boris Yeltsin. The Russian people have an especially deep feeling for their motherland, and socialising land rents for revenue and slashing all other taxes may well have struck a sympathethic chord. Yeltsin too, however, has been told by western powerbrokers that he must sell Russia's patrimony - 'freehold' her land - as a pre-condition for western assistance.
- [The 2007 Earthsharing Challenge Teaser Clip](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/05/the-2007-earthsharing-challenge-teaser-clip/) - [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUo9AW0-7Kc[/youtube]
- [Intentional Communities and Georgism as antidotes to Land Monopoly](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/01/intentional-communities-and-georgism-as-antidotes-to-land-monopoly/) - Presented by David Spain Fri Nov 30th, 7pm for 7.15pm, Hardware Lane RSVP ***Due to popular demand we will be getting David to deliver this lively presentation again in mid 2008 To read about David's extensive material on these topics, check his website
- [Why the "Sixties" did a 180 Degree Turn (or How the Aquarian Age Could Do a U-turn, from a Georgist Perspective)](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/why-the-sixties-did-a-180-degree-turn/) - By Karl Williams - " Whatever happened to the revolution? " - " We all got stoned and drifted away" Well, there might actually be quite a bit of truth in these Skyhooks lyrics - dope was firstly the gift and later the curse of all those starry-eyed ideals that we held back in the late '60s through the '70s. These ideals were tied in with a movement which appeared to be irresistibly sweeping the whole world. It was seen as the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, or simply "The Sixties". Its leaders were folk and protest singers, peace activists, political revolutionaries and Indian gurus. Its followers were flower children, dropouts, a whole generation of university students, hippies of various shades of grime, and even some ordinary Mums and Dads. If it had any "headquarters" to begin with, it was mythically located on the corner of Haight & Ashbury Streets in San Francisco.
- [The Middle Class Must Not Fail Or All Is Lost](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/the-middle-class-must-not-fail-or-all-is-lost/) - TAYLOR CALDWELL THE MIDDLE CLASS With the rise of the Industrial Civilization in the world about two hundred years ago, there also arose a social body which we know as the middle class. Before that, most of the world suffered under a feudal system in which the people were truly slaves of their governments in all things. There was no strong buffer between them and their despotic rulers, no assurance of freedom to pursue commerce and to live decently, to keep the fruits of their labor and hold the paying of tribute at a minimum. The middle class made the dream of liberty a possibility, set limits on the government, fought for its constitutions, removed much of governmental privilege and tyranny, demanded that rulers obey the just laws as closely as the people, and enforced a general civic morality.
- [Peace, Justice, and Economic Reform](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/peace-justice-and-economic-reform/) - The Henry George Lecture at St. John's University: March 18, 1997 Nicolaus Tideman There is a bumper sticker that says, "If you want peace, then work for justice." At a superficial level, this simple slogan contains an important half-truth. At a deeper level, it contains a more profound half-truth. To understand these half-truths and why they are only half true, we need to know what peace is, what justice is, and we need to understand the relationship between the two. So in this talk I want to explore the meanings of peace and justice, their relationship, and the role of economic reform in attaining both.
- [Proposition 13](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/proposition-13/) - Mason Gaffney, Professor of Economics, University of California What happens when a state radically slashes its property tax? California can show you 17 years of experience. Here is what has happened since California passed Proposition 13 in 1978. The obvious direct results have been to cut public services, raise other taxes, and lose credit rating. Our school support fell from #5, nationally, to #40 in 1985 when last seen, still falling. County road maintenance is down to where my county (Riverside) is repaving its roads at an annual rate of once every 130 years. Once in 20 years is recommended here, and up north you generally need higher frequency. You can't just build infrastructure and then stop paying for it, it's a perpetual commitment. Thanks to urban scatter, a high fraction of our population now depends on these county roads.
- [Orderly Progress & Fair Shares](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/orderly-progress-fair-shares/) - 'Orderly progress & fair shares.' Too good to be true? by Fred Harrison WILL Tony Blair, Britain's reforming leader of New Labour, learn the "secret" of full employment? He emphasises the need to re-skill the workforce, but will that be enough in the 21st century? There are large variations in the public money devoted to training people. Britain spends much more than the US, with poorer results. Sweden, which makes a point of the state supporting the education of employees, is suffering from an economic malaise every bit as intractable as countries that spend a great deal less of taxpayers' money on training programs.
- [Tax Scams & Banking in Russia](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/tax-scams-banking-in-russia/) - INSITE: Bulletin of the Land Policy Council Editor: Fred Harrison, April 1996, Vol 2 (3) Kill the Tax Scams and Create Jobs IT' S ENOUGH to make Marx turn in his grave! His arch champion, the Soviet Union, capitulated to the capitalists in 1991 just as the market economies crashed into their most severe crisis since the 1930s. Government ministers from the seven richest nations on earth burdened with 24m jobless people, double the number since the spirit of Thatcher/Reagan was unleashed in 1979 - met in Lille on April 2 to agonise about what to do. Global unemployment is running at 700m people, according to the International Labour Organisation, but governments are bereft of ideas about what to do to liberate the labour market.
- [Land! Peace! Freedom!](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/land-peace-freedom/) - Christopher M. Hussey 1997 There are three inseparable components of a lasting settlement to Ulster's and Ireland's travail: land, peace, and freedom. Like interconnected chain links, these three come as a job lot, together or not at all. All wars, fair or foul, are ultimately land wars, and, unless a stalemate ensues, all war settlements, fair or foul, involve land transfers. Ireland's case is no exception. Indeed, everywhere on Ulster's fraught socio-political landscape, past and present, you will see land. Ascendancy and Descendancy The plantation of Ulster involved the dispossession of the gaelic clans and the privatisation by planters of the previously free common lands. This was in a natural environment (rainy, uneven terrain, mild winters) that favoured a pastoralist economy and a mutualist tribalist civil society.
- [What Happened To Japan](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/what-happened-to-japan/) - Investor's Business Daily Feb 27, 1998 reports: "Asia's largest economy is in trouble A long-awaited stimulus package announced last Friday (Feb 20) showed once again why Japan's model of government-business collusion cannot thrive in a free market. The package did not cut taxes or try to ease the burden of regulations on the Japanese. Instead, the govt proposes letting Japanese financial institutions package bad loans and sell them as securities. The govt might then buy them up in a bid to stimulate the economy... A January estimate pegged the amount of bad loans at Japanese banks as worth about 15% of GDP..."
- [The Danish Experience](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/the-danish-experience/) - by Knud Tholstrup, University of Bergen 1974 Sensational practical experience in taxation of land values was gained in Denmark in the years 1957-60 when the Danish Justice Party, promulgating land value taxation, free trade and equal rights, formed a so-called 'land tax' government, together with the Social Democrats (Labour) and the Radicals (Liberals). The three parties made an agreement based on the following: 1. Collection of land rent 2. Liberalisation of trade: including closing the Department of Supply and Import Control 3. A tax freeze Although the Justice Party was the only member of the triumvirate of parties forming government to have agitated and worked for the introduction of land value taxation, the election programs of all three parties did include a land tax on the growth in land values.
- [Resourceful Understandings](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/resourceful-understandings/) - Written by Karl "K2" Fitzgerald for the Sustainable Living Festival explaining how and why a True Cost Economics system is necessary.
- [How Do You Value A Tree?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/how-do-you-value-a-tree/) - K1 develops our understanding on why we have to start somewhere in the trail towards a True Cost Economics system.
- [The Ultimate Eco Tax](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/the-ultimate-eco-tax/) - Karl "K1" Williams wrote this snappy short piece for a Greens Mag.
- [Reading](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/reading/)
- [Geonomics - A Summary](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/geonomics---a-summary/) - by Karl Williams 200-WORD OVERVIEW Geonomics ('law of the Earth') represents a completely different way of looking at The Earth. Starting from the self-evident (but ignored!) principle that The Earth (land and natural resources) should be the equal and common birthright of all humanity, a radically different set of economic and social principles emerge. However, the means to implement these principles is relatively simple - essentially, taxing land values rather than production. That unemployment is inevitable in modern industrialised economies is not true. In economic terms, land has the unique qualities which gives landholders unique monopolist powers and the ability to make massive speculative profits while their land lies idle or under used while its value is rising.
- [The Corruption of Economics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/the-corruption-of-economics/) - by Mason Gaffney, Professor of Economics, University of California, Riverside The following is the introduction to Professor Gaffney's paper Neo-classical Economics as a Strategem against Henry George, 5 July 1994. The paper formed the basis of a book: The Corruption of Economics, Mason Gaffney and Fred Harrison, Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd, London, 1994. Introduction: The Power of Neo-classical Economics Neoclassical economics is the idiom of most economic discourse today. It is the paradigm that bends the twigs of young minds. Then it confines the fluorescence of older ones, like chicken-wire shaping a topiary. It took form about a hundred years ago, when Henry George and his reform proposals were a clear and present political danger and challenge to the landed and intellectual establishments of the world. Few people realize to what a degree the founders of Neoclassical economics changed the discipline for the express purpose of deflecting George, discomfiting his followers, and frustrating future students seeking to follow his arguments. The stratagem was semantic: to destroy the very words in which he expressed himself. Simon Patten expounded it succinctly. "Nothing pleases a ... single taxer better than ... to use the well-known economic theories ... [therefore] economic doctrine must be recast" (Patten 1908, p.219; Collier, 1979, p.270).
- [The Silence of The Historians](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/the-silence-of-the-historians/) - FWG Foat, MA, DLit There is a Secret of History. The mot de l'enigme is Land. The great historians of the rank, for instance, of Mommsen, say the word, but then pass on, as though in haste to leave a dangerous ground. Lesser historians shun the mention of it altogether, or mention it in faltering accents. Time, with its effacement of old meanings, helps this obscurantism and oblivion falls upon the theme. What is the cause of this conspiracy of silence? The answer is again in one word, landlordism. Historians are proteges of those whose interest lies in keeping dark concerning land. Now a protege must not discuss what patrons do not wish to mention. But that would come to writing nothing of man's greatest struggles, longest wars, and bitterest distress. "Well, then, let the historians write of wars, political struggles, and distress in social life. Let them write freely of the things that happened, and the suffering endured. But let them never mention land and the ownership of land as being the ultimate causes of these happenings. They can write out the story, showing their knowledge of the facts; and if they are pressed for explanations they can point to intermediate collateral causes: man's natural pugnacity, notions of honour, foolish mistakes, wild aspirations towards political freedom, and the like. That will satisfy the few inquiring minds, and the rest will never question. Only no mention of the land and the landlords!"
- [Cobden and Rogers](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/cobden-and-rogers/) - Richard Cobden "Cheated, Robbed and Bamboozled" "I warn ministers, and I warn landlords and the aristocracy of this country, against forcing on the attention of the middle and industrial classes, the subject of taxation ..... If you were to bring forward the history of taxation in this country for the last 150 years, you will find as black a record against the landowners as even in the Corn Law itself. I warn them against ripping up the subject of taxation. If they want another league at the death of this one - if they want another organisation and a motive - then let them force the middle and industrial classes to understand how they have been cheated, robbed and bamboozled .....
- [Tolstoy And George](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/tolstoy-and-george/) - Victor Lebrun Victor Lebrun was a personal friend and Secretary to Leo Tolstoy. This is a translation of his article published in the July 1956 issue of the French periodical, Contre-Courant, and reprinted in the July-September 1956 issue of the French Georgist magazine Terre et Liberte. Its historical interest, in view of the establishment of Communism in Russia in 1917, needs no emphasis. In giving his extreme and sympathetic attention to other thinkers and writers, the great Tolstoy differed essentially from his colleagues - the geniuses of all countries and all centuries. But nothing shows the complete honesty and surprisng liberty of his spirit more than his attitude towards Henry George.
- [How To Abolish Unfair Taxation](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/how-to-abolish-unfair-taxation/) - by Clarence Darrow, Attorney, Philosopher Clarence Darrow of Chicago became known and respected the world round as a courageous and intelligent foe of special privilege and monopoly. His social and economic philosophy rested on the same basic principles as those of Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Everybody nowadays is anxious to help do something for the poor, especially they who are on the backs of the poor; they will do anything that is not fundamental. Nobody ever dreams of giving the poor a chance to help themselves. The reformers in this state have passed a law prohibiting women from working more than eight hours in one day in certain industries - so much do women love to work that they must be stopped by law. If any benevolent heathen see fit to come here and do work, we send them to gaol or send them back where they came from.
- [Upton Sinclair & Dan Sullivan's Review](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/upton-sinclair-&-dan-sullivan's-review/) - The Consequences of Land Speculation are Tenantry and Debt on the Farms, and Slums and Luxury in the Cities by Upton Sinclair I know of a woman--I have never had the pleasure of making her acquaintance, because she lives in a lunatic asylum, which does not happen to be on my visiting list. This woman has been mentally incompetent from birth. She is well taken care of, because her father left her when he died the income of a large farm on the outskirts of a city. The city has since grown and the land is now worth, at conservative estimate, about twenty million dollars. It is covered with office buildings, and the greater part of the income, which cannot be spent by the woman, is piling up at compound interest. The woman enjoys good health, so she may be worth a hundred million dollars before she dies.
- [Geoist responds to a Royal Libertarian](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/geoist-responds-to-a-royal-libertarian/) - With great humility, an allodial 'libertarian' (that is, one who believes that land may be owned absolutely, without any annual rent or charge whatsoever for the privilege of exclusive ownership) wrote: > You should not presume to speak on behalf of libertarians, > since you are obviously in the position of not understanding. > Instead you should ask for clarifications. To which Dan Sullivan responded: OK. Complete novice that I am, I will undoubtedly benefit from your erudition on what the following passages mean. Please do explain them. Feel free to interpret each sentence and go into detail, so that we might benefit from your intellectual prowess:
- [The Progressive Flat Tax](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/the-progressive-flat-tax/) - The flat tax fanatics are back. They say that if there were only one rate of income tax, the system would be simpler, and the rich couldn't reduce their tax by converting one kind of income into another kind taxed at a lower rate. In the case of a pure flat tax — that is, a tax with one rate and no tax-free threshold — the tax rate could be lower, and the rich couldn't claim multiple thresholds by splitting income between persons or between financial years. But of course such reforms would make the tax system less progressive — a "progressive" tax being a tax that takes a higher fraction of income as income increases.
- [The Victorian Baptist](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/the-victorian-baptist/) - Melbourne, April 1890 The motive of Mr Henry George's mission to the colonies is one which all philanthropic minds must approve. His purpose is to better the condition of that large mass of mankind, who, whilst a smaller section of their fellows is revelling in superfluity, are condemned to what he calls the "hell of poverty". His fundamental position is that the Great Father has given in the land an ample estate for all, and that the few who claim it for themselves to the exclusion of others are guilty of injustice. Addressing quite lately the Baptist Ministers' Meeting at Philadelphia, he contended:- "The want that festers in our centres is not the fault of God. The fault is with men; it is in our institutions. We are animals; we are land animals. It is only from the land that men can live. Man is a maker; he is the only animal that brings things forth. He cannot create; God alone creates. The first human being who came here was a naked man. In his powers lay the potentiality of all that has since been produced. Land is the passive factor in production, as man is the active factor. Now, suppose the land is made the property of a part of the people. We will have wealth on one side and poverty on the other. Give me the land; and I am the master, and men are my slaves. Slavery claimed the right to make one man work for another, without giving him an equivalent. This is what the landlord does. When I am forced to give my labour for that which God has created, that is robbery. In England, Scotland and Ireland, you find good men, God-fearing men, slaving away all their days for the merest necessaries and other creatures living in luxury on their work, proud neither they nor their fathers have ever done anything. This is worse than negro slavery: hunger is more cruel than the lash or the bloodhound. We have not abolished slavery; the more insidious form remains."
- [Your Home: The Tax Haven That Never Was](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/your-home:-the-tax-haven-that-never-was/) - SPIN: The Family Home is exempt from land tax. (And all the people shall say: Amen.) FACT: If home buyers don't have to pay land tax, they can afford higher mortgage repayments, hence higher prices. While the price of a house is limited by the cost of construction and by competition among builders, a home is not just a house; it also includes land, which is a limited natural resource, and whose price is therefore determined by what people are willing and able to pay for it. So there is nothing to stop higher land prices from absorbing the entire benefit of the tax "exemption", in which case the buyer still pays the tax — to the seller instead of the government!
- [Globalisation: Shortcut to the Bottom](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/globalisation:-shortcut-to-the-bottom/) - In this age of internationally mobile capital, we are repeatedly told that if we want to attract and retain investment, we must make our tax system more "competitive". Very conveniently for the investors, competitive taxes are taken to mean low taxes, in which case governments must engage in a "race to the bottom" — competitively cutting taxes and public expenditure, sacrificing their schools, hospitals, transport systems and other essential services on the altar of global finance. Fortunately this is bunk. In fact the attractiveness of the tax system to investors has more to do with the type of tax than with the amount of tax collected. "Taxes ain't taxes!"
- [Negative Gearing: Incompetence or Conspiracy?](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/negative-gearing:-incompetence-or-conspiracy?/) - A rental property is said to be negatively geared if the owner's expenses (including mortgage interest and maintenance) exceed the rental income, so that the property makes an annual loss. If the tax system allows negative gearing deductibility, that loss can be deducted from other income for tax purposes. Abolition of this deductibility, loosely known as "abolition of negative gearing", would make the owner's expenses deductible against the rent alone — not against other income. SPIN: Negative gearing deductibility helps renters and first home buyers by encouraging property investors to "supply accommodation"; the larger the supply, the lower the rents and prices.
- [Henry George In New England](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/henry-george-in-new-england/) - In May, 1890, Henry George delivered three public lectures in northern New South Wales, Australia. Reports of two of these lectures were recently discovered in the Dixson Library of the University of New England and re-published in the History of Economics Review (M.L Threadgold and J.M. Pullen, pp. 83-95) No. 23, 1996 Glen Innes Examiner, June 3, 1890 The Armidale Lecture Henry George in New England - by X.L. Monday, the 26th inst., was announced as the date of the great social reformer's visit to Armidale, but somehow his managers had contrived to make the least possible use of the occasion by neglecting to give publicity to the event by the ordinary means of advertisement throughout the district. Although the visit of Mr Henry George was intended to serve as his personal introduction to the New England district - including Glen Innes, Walcha and Uralla; yet, so far as we know, no advertisement outside of Armidale was inserted in any other newspaper circulating in New England.
- [Infrastructure: Free Riders On The Tollway](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/infrastructure:-free-riders-on-the-tollway/) - The Mitcham-Frankston tollway, also known as EastLink, will reduce commuting times in suburbs serviced by the tollway and in suburbs serviced by alternative routes, such as the untolled Springvale and Stud roads, whose congestion levels will be reduced by EastLink. The market value of this benefit (net of tolls) will be manifested as uplifts in land values in the lucky suburbs (because you have to live or work in those suburbs to get the benefit). So owners of property in those suburbs will benefit from EastLink even if they don't use it and don't pay the toll on it. But people who live in rental accommodation and who commute via EastLink will pay for it twice — they'll pay the toll and their rents will go up. How equitable is that?
- [IR Reform: Banks and P.A.Y.E.](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/ir-reform:-banks-and-p-a-y-e-/) - IR Reform: Let Banks Collect P.A.Y.E. Tax The Howard government's industrial relations agenda attacks the wages and conditions of workers as if this were the only way to reduce the cost of hiring. What about the administrative costs imposed by government? For example: * If you become an employer, you must also become a tax collector and tax agent, deducting and remitting pay-as-you-earn income tax from employees, and issuing group certificates. * If you become an employer, you must also become a superannuation agent, paying 9 percent of your employees' wages into personal superannuation funds. You may even have to give a choice of funds — just like the independent brokers, except that you don't get any commission!
- [Infrastructure: No Pork Barrel Needed!](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/infrastructure:-no-pork-barrel-needed!/) - In every marginal electorate, politicians promise to take revenue raised by nationwide or statewide taxes and spend it on projects that confer purely local economic benefits. This practice is corrupt and unnecessary — corrupt because a minority of taxpayers are bribed at the expense of the majority, and unnecessary because, if a project is economically justified, it can be funded out of the benefit that it confers — and, by implication, from within the area that gets the benefit. If a project confers a benefit on a limited area, you can't share in the benefit unless you live or do business in the area; and for that purpose you need access to real estate in the area. Therefore the market value of the benefit is manifested as uplifts in land values in the affected area. If the project satisfies a cost-benefit test, the total uplift will exceed the cost, so the project can be funded by clawing back only a fraction of the uplift through the tax system, leaving the rest of the uplift as an unearned windfall for owners of property in the affected area — and without burdening the taxpayers outside that area.
- [Income Tax: The Zero Option](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/income-tax:-the-zero-option/) - Since the Howard government gained control of the Senate, we have been hearing numerous proposals for reducing the top marginal rate of income tax. The excuse is that high marginal rates reduce the incentive for wealth creation and encourage tax minimization. Let's put this excuse to the test. A holding tax is a tax of so many percent of the value of an asset per year, payable by the owner of the asset. If income tax were replaced by holding taxes, the top marginal rate of income tax would be zero. Beat that! And if those holding taxes were confined to assets that taxpayers can neither create nor destroy nor move out of the taxing jurisdiction — assets such as land and monopolies — the taxes would cause zero reduction in the stock of assets and zero discouragement to the production of new assets. That takes care of wealth creation.
- [FHOG Reloaded: New Home Builder's Grant](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/fhog-reloaded:-new-home-builder's-grant/) - SPIN: The First Home Owners' Grant (FHOG) helps first-time home buyers enter the market. FACT: More precisely, the FHOG helps first-time buyers to compete with other buyers who can use the equity in their old homes to bid up prices. But by increasing bids from first-time buyers, the FHOG also raises prices, especially at the bottom of the market where first-time buyers are concentrated. Thus the FHOG partly defeats its own purpose. Moreover, the FHOG only helps people who are rich enough to be contemplating home ownership; it does nothing for life-long renters. SOLUTION: Make the grant available only for new homes in order to encourage construction, so that the increase in demand is offset by the greatest possible increase in supply. Then make the grant available to investors as well as intending owner-occupants, so that the increase in supply extends to rental accommodation. But keep the grant in the form of a fixed sum per dwelling, so that investors have an incentive to build a larger number of cheaper dwellings rather than a smaller number of more expensive ones; that maximizes the supply at the affordable end of the market. In short, turn the FHOG into a New Home Builder's Grant.
- [IR Reform: Who Really Wins](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/ir-reform:-who-really-wins/) - Who are the real winners and losers under the Howard government's industrial relations reforms? We think you can work it out for yourselves. Here are some hints: 1. If workers in firms with less than 100 employees have lost their protection against unfair dismissal (not to be confused with unlawful dismissal), and if all other workers have lost their protection against unfair dismissal as long as their employers can claim "operational requirements", how will this effect workers' ability to get home loans? And how will that affect the value of your home? 2. If workers' wages become more dependent on the workers' own bargaining power, which workers will lose more: those with more bargaining power, or those with less? In the past, have these workers been comparatively well-paid or poorly-paid? Are they more likely to be home owners or renters? How will this affect the rents received by mum-and-dad property investors, and the values of their investments?
- [Please Explain, Mr Brumby](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/please-explain-mr-brumby/) - By Lev Lafayette. Derived from the presentation at the Hume Global Learning Centre, June 28, 2006 Introduction Tonight I am representing Prosper Australia, an organisation which has, in various guises, been a part of Victoria for over one hundred years. One key objective of the organisation is the reduction, as much as possible of taxes on labour and capital, and for public finances to be derived instead from site rental. Because when it comes down to it, there are only two sources for public revenue; the goods and services which are produced or the resources that are used. The idea of public financing through site rental was extremely popular in the early days of Australia, supported by both the Liberal Party of Alfred Deakin and his Labor opponent Andrew Fisher. Indeed Alfred Deakin illustrated the case quite succinctly when he said;
- [Make Poverty History](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/make-poverty-history/) - We will never make poverty history until we rip up the tax system Mark Braund, Saturday December 3, 2005 The Guardian Despite the prime minister's resolve, the year in which Britain was to lead the world in making poverty history has achieved little. This month there is one last opportunity as the World Trade Organisation gathers in Hong Kong. But even if this meeting throws up some surprises, we will end the year little closer to ending poverty. Increased aid, debt cancellation and fairer trade would certainly have some impact, but they would not address the underlying causes of poverty.
- [IR Reform: Unmentionable Barriers to Job Creation](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2006/09/ir-reform:-unmentionable-barriers-to-job-creation/) - IR Reform: Unmentionable Barriers to Job Creation The Howard government's industrial relations agenda is supposedly about job-creation, as if the cost of labour — including wages and salaries, penalty rates and other perks, and the difficulty of reversing bad hiring decisions — were the last remaining barrier to full employment. Sorry that we have to state the bleeding obvious, but: * Jobs cannot be created unless the employer can pay the rent or mortgage on the business premises out of the proceeds of the business; and * Jobs cannot be created unless the workers can pay the rent or mortgage on housing within commuting distance of those jobs, out of wages that the employer can pay out of the proceeds of the business.
- [2007 Challenge](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2007/05/2007-challenge/) - The Earthsharing Challenge Camp Take 2 An action packed weekend learning the current issues from people who live with them daily. Record these stories on camera and let's make it into our very own documentary! Participants Attending the Camp: • Approximately 20 students will be chosen. • Students from years 8 to year 11 can apply. • All students will undergo a free film training day in the Melbourne CBD before attending the camp. What Will Happen on the Camp? The weekend will involve a tour of Anglesea’s environmentally significant sites and people. The issues will include forestry, water and waste.
- [The Modern Juggernaut](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/2007/02/the-modern-juggernaut/) - Taken from The Beacon, Nov 1st, 1893 (Melbourne) Juggernaut was a god of India, a monsterous idol, whose huge nostrils loved the scent of the blood of human sacrifice. When his great chariot was rolled through the streets, men and women in adoration flung themselves beneath its wheels and were gloriously crushed to death. While the victims thought to gain thereby eternal joys and a paradise of indolent repose, their shrieks and groans sounded sweet in the great god’s ears, or, rather, in those of the fat priests who tended him, and who leered horribly at one another, knowing that such mad self-immolation assured them in their bloody offices. For it was the priests that fostered the worship of the beastial image, since to them fell the stripping of the slain and the toil-won offerings of superstitious devotees.

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- [ETS](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/ets/)
- [water trading](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/water-trading/)
- [Phil Anderson](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/phil-anderson/)
- [subprime](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/subprime/)
- [Annual Dinner](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/annual-dinner/)
- [housing affordability](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/housing-affordability/)
- [recession](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/recession/)
- [land price/ value](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/land-value/)
- [globalisation](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/globalisation/)
- [humour](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/humour/)
- [Henry Review](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/henry-review/)
- [economic rent](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/economic-rent/)
- [reserve bank](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/reserve-bank/)
- [generational inequity](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/generational-inequity/)
- [Alanna Hartzok](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/alanna-hartzok/)
- [site value](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/site-value/)
- [land supply](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/land-supply/)
- [Bryan Kavanagh](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/bryan-kavanagh/)
- [Jeffery J Smith](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/jeffery-j-smith/)
- [public transport](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/public-transport/)
- [mining](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/mining/)
- [Economic Rehab](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/economic-rehab/)
- [creative](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/creative/)
- [scarcity](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/scarcity/)
- [earth rights](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/earth-rights/)
- [South Africa](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/south-africa/)
- [speed renting](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/speed-renting/)
- [E4A](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/e4a/)
- [WTO](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/wto/)
- [workshops](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/workshops/)
- [banking](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/banking/)
- [Michael Hudson](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/michael-hudson/)
- [bailout](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/bailout/)
- [CLT](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/clt/)
- [land banking](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/land-banking/)
- [mason gaffney](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/mason-gaffney/)
- [Fred Harrison](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/fred-harrison/)
- [depression](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/depression/)
- [boom-bust](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/boom-bust/)
- [Gavin Putland](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/gavin-putland/)
- [land banking](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/land-banks/)
- [speculators](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/speculators/)
- [maxxy](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/maxxy/)
- [global warming](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/global-warming/)
- [vanuatu](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/vanuatu/)
- [foreign ownership](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/foreign-ownership/)
- [press release](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/press-release/)
- [world bank](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/world-bank/)
- [gentrification](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/gentrification/)
- [pacific](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/pacific/)
- [FHOG](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/fhog/)
- [reneg](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/reneg/)
- [renega](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/renega/)
- [population](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/population/)
- [Fast Forward News](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/fast-forward-news/)
- [campaign](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/campaign/)
- [diary of an Economics & Finance Student](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/diary-of-an-economics-finance-student/)
- [land policy](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/land-policy/)
- [resource rents](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/resource-rents/)
- [negative gearing](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/negative-gearing/)
- [land tax](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/land-tax/)
- [the commons](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/the-commons/)
- [cart](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/cart/)
- [Geonomics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/geonomics/)
- [Speculative Vacancies report](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/speculative-vacancies-report/)
- [Real Estate 4 Ransom](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/real-estate-4-ransom/)
- [David Smiley](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/david-smiley/)
- [washington consensus](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/washington-consensus/)
- [Monopoly Capitalism](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/monopoly-capitalism/)
- [thailand](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/thailand/)
- [re-zoning](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/re-zoning/)
- [Phil Soos](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/phil-soos/)
- [Philip Soos](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/philip-soos/)
- [peer 2 peer](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/peer-2-peer/)
- [neol](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/neol/)
- [Andy Moore](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/andy-moore/)
- [Total Resource Rents of Australia](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/total-resource-rents-of-australia/)
- [oil](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/oil/)
- [inequality](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/inequality/)
- [economics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/economics/)
- [economic cycles](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/economic-cycles/)
- [china](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/china/)
- [united states](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/united-states/)
- [corporate profits](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/corporate-profits/)
- [tax reform](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/tax-reform/)
- [property markets](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/property-markets/)
- [don't buy now](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/dont-buy-now/)
- [henry george](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/henry-george/)
- [land valuation](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/land-valuation/)
- [economic history](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/economic-history/)
- [land](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/land/)
- [wall st](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/wall-st/)
- [value capture](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/value-capture/)
- [ABS](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/abs/)
- [tax evasion](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/tax-evasion/)
- [Catherine Cashmore](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/catherine-cashmore/)
- [state politics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/state-politics/)
- [sharing economy](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/sharing-economy/)
- [money](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/money/)
- [Winston Churchill](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/winston-churchill/)
- [Big Tech](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/big-tech/)
- [Victorian state politics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/victorian-state-politics/)
- [Cameron Murray](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/cameron-murray/)
- [unearned income](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/unearned-income/)
- [Joseph Stiglitz](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/joseph-stiglitz/)
- [True Cost Economics](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/true-cost-economics/)
- [Events](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/events/)
- [Multimedia](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/multimedia/)
- [community land trusts](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/community-land-trusts/)
- [CGO conference tour](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/cgo-conference-tour/)
- [scotland](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/scotland/)
- [overview](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/overview/)
- [Rental Backed Mortgage Securities](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/rental-backed-mortgage-securities/)
- [empty homes](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/empty-homes/)
- [collage highlights](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/collage-highlights/)
- [architect](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/architect/)
- [rent seekers](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/rent-seekers/)
- [Daniel Andrews](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/daniel-andrews/)
- [commodities](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/commodities/)
- [monetary reform](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/monetary-reform/)
- [Dave Wetzel](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/dave-wetzel/)
- [energy](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/energy/)
- [monopoly](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/monopoly/)
- [patents](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/patents/)
- [renengade economists](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/renengade-economists/)
- [gas](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/gas/)
- [vacant homes](https://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/vacant-homes/)