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The Silver Bullet (2008) Face it. The world is no closer to consigning poverty to history. Why is there still poverty from whole countries of the poor South, to the back streets, slums and trailer parks of the rich West? The good intentions, the money, the rhetoric, the pity and the media histrionics are but pinpricks to a world-rampaging monster. They say there is no silver bullet. Neither Geldof or Bono, nor the United Nations, nor the vast assembled hosts of international aid and development agencies have the answer. Doesn't every citizen of the world have an equal right to the good life? With so much wealth in the world, why are so many of us so poor, when we could rid ourselves of this monster? And the fact is, there is only one way to kill poverty...Buy online at Amazon.com |
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Boom Bust: House Prices, Banking and the Depression of 2010 (Second Edition) (2007) My first book, "The Power in the Land", predicted the early 1990s recession. In 2005, Boom Bust warned that investing in property is not always a safe bet, because the market is subject to a sharp downturn at the end of a remarkably regular 18-year cycle. If history repeats, the next tipping point is due at the end of 2007 or early 2008. This forecast is based on a careful study of the evidence from property markets, not only in the UK, over the last 200 years. If I am right, Gordon Brown's claim, made in his 1997 Budget speech, that 'we will never return to the old boom and bust' will be proved false.Buy online at Amazon.com |
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Ricardo's Law: House Prices and the Great Tax Clawback Scam (2006) I describe in detail what some economists have been telling us for centuries and others have been keeping from us. I confirm that the effect of charging a levy on the annual value of land would be much larger than most economists acknowledge.Buy online at Amazon.com |
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Boom Bust: House Prices, Banking and the Depression of 2010 (2005) In my first book, "The Power in the Land" (1983), I forecast the recessions in the leading industrial economies in 1992. The prediction - published some nine years ahead of the events - confirmed the value of my historical analysis of trends in the industrial economy.Now, in "From Bust to Boom and Back", I return with a more alarming prediction: whereas in the early 1990s there had been a number of major economies going into recession at about the same time, with the emergence of a global economy there is a very real danger of a global recession, based on a global business cycle, which would be all the more severe because there would be fewer countervailing forces. I dismiss as bogus the talk of a "new economy", based on the nine years of uninterupted growth in the United States and the claims of Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer to have abolished the boom-bust. I argue that the seeds of the next bust are already well and truly sown, with 2010 being the fateful year for the next major crash. Buy online at Amazon.com |
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The Power in the Land (1983) An inquiry into unemployment, the profits crisis, and land speculation.Buy online at Amazon.com |
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