January 26, 2008 – 2:27 pm
Driving change from below
A bottom-up approach to innovation
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. (Proverbs 6)
Deborah Gordon has studied ants for 20 years trying to understand how an [...]
January 23, 2008 – 7:53 am
It is good economics to become as green as possible as quickly as possible
Australians can afford to reduce net greenhouse emissions to zero within ten years and in the decades following start to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. For $3,250 investment per year per person for ten years we can generate [...]
January 22, 2008 – 2:08 pm
Greg Roberts article in CT Jan 21st on housing affordability, and your editorial on stopping inflation are related. In Australia too much money chasing housing is both helping cause inflation and causing house prices to become unaffordable. The amount of money created for house loans in November 97 was 22 billion dollars. Of this 20 [...]
January 11, 2008 – 7:03 am
Wayne Swan is correct is chastising the ANZ for their proposed rate increase. The banks are taking advantage of their privileged position in the way that new money is created in Australia. Their competitors are the ones who have to pay more for money. The big banks are able to create money to loan [...]
January 2, 2008 – 1:36 pm
The WaterFord and Pryor article on the Federal government intervention in the NT (CT Dec22) is depressing reading because it describes an intervention that is repressive and restrictive. There is another way to tackle the problem that is positive and will cost a lot less. Rather than put restrictions on how people in the NT [...]
