A recent study of 14 advanced economies found that 81% of the rise in house prices is attributable to land, not the dwellings that rest on it.
Austerity
Bill Mitchell – Latest IMF data helps us see how political choices impact on health and economic outcomes
Corona: Elimination is better for health outcomes. It is better for economic outcomes. It is costly but less so than the alternative that most nations have deployed. Read here
EU politics
Irish Times: We are about to build the wrong homes in the wrong places at the wrong price
“Do we really want our cities, towns and villages designed by developer-led planning and determined by unelected officials? That is what is happening now.” Developer-led plans for Dublin housing density far exceed 19th-century tenements Read […]
Corruption
The Olive Press: Journalist faces jail over plot to smear Spain’s left wing political leader Pablo Iglesias
Once again the centrists parties of Spain, the Consevatives and Social Democrats, have been caught using illegal means of undermining the leftist oppostion. Corruption, anti-democracy, and police brutality seem to be the hallmarks of this […]
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