Bumper edition of Practical Politics
The April 2010 edition of Practical Politics covers a wide range of apparently disparate topics, all of which are ultimately linked to the ownership of land and what happens to the income stream it yields.
- Agricultural landowners reap the benefits of CAP and tax concessions
- Land purchase loans got banks into trouble
- Banks step in to become developers to mitigate losses on development companies’ loans
- Greece and the Eurozone
- UK government bails out RBS and Lloyds Bank on losses made through bad loans for Irish property purchase
- How slavery was defended by the same arguments used to defend private ownership of land
- Why landowners in the south of England are better at their “job” than landowners in Northern Scotland
- Location is the key
- How affordable housing subsidises employers
- Why flight paths are “land” from an economic perspective
- How infrastructure creates land value
- Depression: 1992 and 2009 compared
- Third World Development – who benefits and who does not
- Where did the American dream go to?