Peer-to-Peer Finance: A Flight to Simplicity
By Chris Cook @ Policy Innovations 25/02/09 Internet activist John Gilmore famously said, “The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” A key event of the Internet age was the...
View ArticlePaul Grignon’s “Money As Debt” video
Any of you who are new to monetary reform should take the time to play the entire of this well made video uploaded before the current crash. Paul Grignon’s excellent Canadian video, “Money As Debt.” My...
View ArticleCrisis of Credit in Pictures
This describes the US situation rather than Ireland but very illuminating nevertheless. Crisis of Credit
View ArticleNew Book on Land Value Tax
News from Lincoln House Henry George’s big idea The land value tax, an increased tax rate on land and a reduced tax rate on buildings and improvements, has been tried in the U.S. primarily in...
View ArticleTo buy or not to buy…
A recent post by Ronan Lyons graphically shows why buyers are right to wait … Real interest rates in Ireland, 1975-2009 Sometimes, it’s easy to forget – when you see interest rates of just 2% or so on...
View ArticleTabloid horror as UK think-tank suggests a Land Value Tax
The logic of a land value tax is inescapable when serious people examine the causes and remedies of booms and busts in the property market. And just as inevitably the vested interests and unthinking...
View ArticleThe Next Wave of Debt
Kathleen Barrington writing in the Sunday Business Post always has a well founded viewpoint. Her latest article “Living in the Shadow of Negative Equity” warns of more debt to come. Nama has not...
View ArticleHas the Irish Housing Crash Hit Bottom?
The general consensus amongst economists and property specialists is that the housing market is yet to reach its price floor. Prices have fallen by 40-50% across the country and are expected to fall by...
View ArticleOccupy targets evictions : Shades of the Irish Land Wars !
Even the language sounds quaintly familiar to the Irish ear in this account by Justin Elliott in Salon The backdrop for all this is a new study suggesting the foreclosure crisis is only half over, with...
View ArticleEquity Partnerships on myhome.ie
Karl Deeter writes on the myhome.ie website about the benefits of equity partnerships for home owner-rentership… Could changing the way we purchase and own property make a difference? In the current...
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