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2012/05/14 Home lending: Q1 trends are confirmed
2012/05/11 Abbott's selective indignation on reverse tariffs
2012/05/10 Hours worked rose in April
2012/05/07 Company tax and stamp duty will trash budgets
2012/04/12 Oz economy contracted in Q1?
2012/04/11 Lending for owner-occupation turned down in February
2012/03/28 Against all odds, AHURI quantifies stamp-duty/land-tax switch
2012/03/16 Real Estate 4 Ransom now online
2012/03/13 Housing finance shows little change
2012/03/08 Employment figures give mixed signals on GDP
2012/02/17 Fewer hours worked: lower GDP
2012/02/14 Second shoe drops in China
2012/02/13 Housing finance up, January prices down
2012/01/12 Replacing property taxes and payroll tax
2012/01/09 The Super Guarantee: Keating's Great Big Tax on Everything
2012/01/04 If Anna Bligh ran a body corporate...
2011/12/12 Beneath the housing finance headlines
2011/11/30 Payroll tax is biggest state tax
2011/11/24 Council's three strikes
2011/11/23 Financial stability and housing affordability
2011/11/16 The financial stability contour map
2011/11/14 Vacant lots portend financial doom
2011/11/03 Why protectionism is bad for workers
2011/11/01 Double first for Australian home prices
2011/10/31 ABS tracks housing bubble & burst
2011/10/25 Kavanagh-Putland index back in recession zone
2011/10/17 AFR botches another letter
2011/10/14 AFR's editing misrepresents LVRG
2011/10/02 Consumption tax can capture land rents
2011/09/30 The equal-opportunity component of national income
2011/09/17 Unreliability of stamp duty & income tax
2011/09/12 The last flight of the bullhawks
2011/08/31 The Georgist case for a consumption tax
2011/08/11 Why land tax can't be shifted onto tenants
2011/08/09 Investment home lending still at sub-GFC levels
2011/08/06 Dwelling turnover rate at 16-year low
2011/08/03 Tax Forum 2: Abolish personal income tax
2011/08/02 Tax Forum 1: Kill the GST, company tax & the MRRT
2011/07/30 Swan's agenda for non-reform
2011/07/19 Opting out of income tax & GST
2011/07/04 Fraser Coast circumvents site-value rating
2011/06/08 Owner-occupation lending bounced; investment lending didn't
2011/06/03 ‘P’ is for Polyanna?
2011/05/31 It's the housing crash, stoopid!
2011/05/25 Taxation and privacy
2011/05/16 Home lending and sales at mini-recession levels
2011/05/04 Council rates and the capacity-to-pay hoax
2011/05/03 Logically bankrupt and factually wrong: Eddie Kutner on negative gearing
2011/04/28 Don't call him radical: Philip Denny Day, 1924-2011
2011/04/21 More hypocrisy on negative gearing
2011/04/12 How to end the First Home Buyers' Strike without a recession
2011/04/06 Home lending sinks to 10-year low against GDP
2011/03/24 How land prices outgrew workers' incomes: the macro view
2011/03/23 Bubble deniers plead No Contest
2011/03/17 Australia's housing bubble: The warnings
2011/03/09 Home lending sinks to GFC depths
2011/02/15 Australian Housing: Beware the Ninth of March
2011/01/25 Obfuscating economic rent
2010/12/10 Housing: Behold the supply-side crash
2010/12/05 Prudent prosperity, productive austerity: Why income tax must go
2010/12/04 Bubble denier in Comical Ali mode
2010/12/03 Housing bubble exposed by ABS land values
2010/11/11 Price indices say housing has peaked
2010/10/21 Replacing Mining Royalties and Company Tax
2010/10/11 Lending for housing investment at 17-month low
2010/10/03 More transparency needed in property markets
2010/10/01 40 years of housing bubbles and recessions
2010/07/15 Our reverse-protectionist tax system
2010/03/24 Bursting property bubbles: Sales crash first, then prices, then GDP
2010/03/18 Relax; housing might not crash this month
2010/02/24 Property spruikers can't Handel reality
2010/01/13 Problem: the ‘rational’ price of land is infinite; solution: abolish income tax
2009/11/06 A better way to reduce the burden on residential ratepayers
2009/09/18 Lessons on the politics of rates reform
2009/08/24 Stimulus without deficits
2009/08/11 What do ratepayers want anyway?
2009/08/08 Rategate and the scandal of the Five Words
2009/07/31 Attention Monash ratepayers: How to calculate your bill under CIV
2009/07/17 Smart growth through tax reform
2009/06/06 The recession we had to deny
2009/06/01 From the subprime to the terrigenous: Recession begins at home
2009/04/24 Weighting the debating of rating
2009/03/25 Pure poison on land tax - Part II
2009/03/22 Pure poison on land tax
2009/03/02 Property sales index points to home-grown recession
Introducing the Kavanagh-Putland Index
2009/02/05 CIV rating cops broadside at Housing Affordability Congress
2009/02/03 Cuckoo Economics
2009/01/28 The case for CIV Rates — decoded!
2009/01/23 The importance of a formula
2009/01/22 How Australia loses $1 trillion a year
2009/01/21 Aye, Barack Hussein Obama. Now finish those thoughts...
2009/01/16 Socialism and anarchism are more of the same
2008/09/01 Why Site-Value rating is better, and how to implement it with no losers
2007/10/19 Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore & Taiwan: How property taxes affect economic growth
2007/09/28 220 years later, we still avoid the issue under our feet
2007/07/07 Housing affordability, urban sprawl, Wendell Cox, and me