By Phil Anderson. Originally published on Property Sharemarket Economics. Republished with permission. In June 2020, a statue of Winston Churchill was graffitied in central London. The defacing happened during a Black Lives Matter protest. These demonstrations have swept around the globe after the police killing of George Floyd in the US last month. The graffiti scrawled across the base of the statue claimed Churchill was a ‘racist’. But here’s the thing. The statue portrayed the … [Read more...]
Famous buildings don’t just document the past, they also tell the future
Originally published on Ethical Economics -- Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers Republished with permission. It’s a well-known fact that the world’s most renowned construction projects, monuments and buildings have historically been built to celebrate something. To commemorate the past, in other words. Whether they are ancient works, like the Great Pyramids of Giza being used to celebrate the glory of the Egyptians pharaohs, or more recent creations like Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, … [Read more...]
The Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking
Author: Phillip J. Anderson| Hardcover: 464 pages | Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn | Language: English “The Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking” is a deeply-researched study of over two centuries of economic history that discovers in these years a surprisingly consistent and predictable pattern of boom and bust. What the author finds is that history from the 1800s to the present day has shown a roughly 18-year real-estate cycle, with an average of 14 years up and 4 years down, … [Read more...]
To build world’s best-ever capital, copy Canberra
By Phil Anderson, director and founder of Property Share Market Economics, and the writer of The Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking. The article is originally published in The Jakarta Post on September 14, 2019 Some years back in London, the enterprising duo of John Bird and Gordon Roddick hit upon an idea to put the homeless back to work. They published The Big Issue for those on the streets to sell. The idea was to provide a regular income to the homeless that wasn’t welfare. The … [Read more...]