All the major time cycles are converging – the land cycle, war cycles, Kondratieff Wave, and the commodity supercycle. This rare alignment has always marked turning points in history. And right now, it points to the trigger for what could be a powerful surge in commodity prices..

One of the keys to grasping an understanding of the land cycle, is to recognise the hidden land story behind inflation (stagflation)...

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In a bold move that has sent a few shockwaves through the real estate industry, the Victorian government has announced the implementation of a new land tax levy. The levy — a part of the COVID debt levy included in this year’s budget — aims to raise $4.7 billion by reducing the tax-free threshold for general land tax rates on properties that are not considered principal places of residence. (The details are here .) While the measure is intended to ease the burden on the state

It’s important to note that the land cycle lays the foundation for all other cycles. We must always view other cycles within the context of what is happening with the land cycle. In the bull phases of the cycle, land prices will always rise faster than general economic growth for two primary reasons. Reason 1: Land is not produced. Its supply is fixed in location. Yet we need it for everything we do! We live on it, sleep on it, work on it, play on it. We derive all our suste

In the 1880s, Judge James G Maguire of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco gave a speech to the New York Anti-Poverty Society. He said: ‘I was one day walking along Kearney Street in San Francisco when I noticed a crowd in front of a show window…I took a glance myself, but I saw only a poor picture of an uninteresting landscape. Source: henrygeorge.org [Click to open in a new window] ‘ As I was turning away my eye caught these words underneath the pictu

I want to pay tribute to Dame Vivienne Westwood, who passed away at the age of 81 on 29 December. Her passing received wide media coverage. The global icon was responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashion into the mainstream, helping launch and clothe the Sex Pistols, and having a tremendous influence on how thousands of men and women dressed throughout the years. However, Westwood was, at heart, an activist. In her autobiography, Vivienne Westwood , written with