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I thank the editor and publisher of the 120 year-old “Land&Liberty” for permission to re-publish over the next two days two excellent articles from its latest issue.

The first is a piece by Richard Glover, “If money could talk, what would it tell us about today’s financial woes?”

The second is an article by L&L’s editor, Joseph Milne, “The idea of Property”.

Both articles clarify long-held public misconceptions that, once understood, offer alternatives to currently misguided public policy.

From the Kohler Report on ABC TV News 4 June 2014.  And I rather suspect the uplift in profits is vastly inflated by the big miners’ “super profits” (viz, rents).

What I’d like to see isolated is the economic rent income of the 1%. It would be perpendicular!

Increase your property taxes, UK:  http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-27675294

Canberra Times:  Major interest rate cuts on offer for big mortgages.

http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2014/02/its-housing-thats-killing-productivity/

But the good news,

for property buyers at least,

is if you can wait,

things should probably get better.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/money/investing/patience-suggested-as-property-sales-rush-eases-20140529-zrqol.html#ixzz33XHrnPhJ

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