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By now you will have heard the sad news of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing this week.
You may support the monarchy or not, but what can’t be denied is the incredible mark her reign left on the history of the modern world.
We can expect huge coverage of her official funeral and the accession of Prince Charles to the throne as King Charles III in the media.
This major change, however, isn’t the focus of today’s blog. It is what has not changed that’s important.
Instead, I wish to bring to your attention a little known and understood fact about the Royal Family.
And it’s this.
Former Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III showed us this week how to eliminate the boom-bust cycle of the economy…for good.
Yet it didn’t even get a mention in the media!
It’s an opportune time then to take a closer look at this and show how everyone’s life could be oh so much different than what we experience today.
All it would take is two remarkably simple steps.
And result in a stunning conclusion that spells out very clearly what you must do to benefit you and your family.
Crown Estate
Here are the two steps that the Property Sharemarket Economics team espouse when asked how the economy “should” work.
Step 1 – abolish all taxes
Step 2 – Collect the rent, the whole rent and nothing but the rent.
Sound simple? That’s because it is.
The problem lies in the fact very few people alive today have ever experienced a society that does do it. It’s an alien concept both to understand and explain.
Here’s the truth. If you reside in the UK then you have indeed experienced this very concept whether you know it or not.
Thanks to the former Queen and recently approved by your new King also.
It all comes down to the Crown Estate.
This was sometimes casually referred to “the Queen’s property company.” (Now it will be known as the “King’s” property company).
Here’s the concept.
The Crown Estate essentially dates from 1066, but in 1760 King George III surrendered Crown revenue to the Treasury as part of the deal that relieved him of his personal debts, the national debt and responsibility for the cost of the civil government.
The Crown Estate is an enormous portfolio of land. Today, it includes large swathes of the West End and Regent Street in London, regional shopping centres, one of the largest land holdings in the UK (approx. 19,000 acres) and much of the country’s seabed.
This portfolio’s surplus income goes to the Treasury. In return and the Sovereign receives the equivalent of 25% of the Crown Estate’s return through a “sovereign grant”.
In effect, the new King is the owner/landlord, but all the rents go directly to the UK government for public expenditure.
The rent, the whole rent and nothing but the rent.
The sovereign grant that the Treasury pays back to the Royal family is basically a citizen’s dividend.
Make no mistake: while rich people hate to give up the rent, the present Monarchy have faithfully stuck to the arrangement.
At his official Proclamation as King on Saturday, King Charles III specifically mentioned this when he declared:
“I take this opportunity to confirm my willingness and intention to continue the tradition of surrendering the hereditary revenues, including the Crown Estate, to my government for the benefit of all, in return for the sovereign grant, which supports my official duties as head of state and head of nation”.
Some grumpy people in the UK complain about the cost of the British Monarchy because of this grant.
If only they knew what they were getting in return – the full rental income of the Crown Estate and all the enormous revenues that UK tourism generates, of which the Royal Family is a key part.
Whatever your views about the system of government, in pounds and pence there’s no question the monarchy is worth it.
But there is absolutely no reason why the Queen’s system of ‘land ownership by the individual, but the rent collected by the Treasury’ could not be applied across the entire UK and indeed, worldwide.
It works. And it would remove all damaging land speculation, which leads to the boom-and-bust cycle.
But this is probably why it will never ever be implemented.
Doomed to repeat over and over again.
I refer you back to the headline above.
“The late Queen and the new King are showing the way to eliminate the boom-bust economic cycle”
Look at the world around you today, conflict, high inflation, stagnant wages, extremely high property prices.
This is our world now, but if we followed the example of the Royal family then all of that would disappear.
This is why the world mourns the loss of Queen Elizabeth. Because the Queen and the values she stood for are so influential.
However, there is a limit to that influence.
And it’s deliberate. The wealthiest families and the world biggest banks have no intention of allowing the naturally generated rent generated by a productive society to fall into the hands of those most responsible for creating it.
Sadly, it’s this boom-bust model that most on earth are familiar with. And it’s this exact economic model that produces the 18.6-year Real Estate Cycle.
And we accept this because an alternative is neither promoted nor championed by governments. I have shown you though, there is a valid alternative.
King Charles even said as much to millions watching on TV as he formally accepted the responsibilities of sovereign head of state!
Alas, for most of humanity, today will see no changes whatsoever to how the economic system should work.
And so, its boom then bust, for you, your children, and your grandchildren.
Which means some will win but most will eventually lose.
Therefore, you simply must understand the boom-bust nature of the economy and how best to position yourself to both profit from the boom and protect against the bust.
Heres the best way to start – with a membership to the Boom Bust Bulletin.
It will teach you the history of the 18.6-year Real Estate Cycle, why it continues to repeat to this very day and provide you with the confidence of knowing when to time your investment buys and when it’s time to get out of the market.
It’s a real shame that we have a model for future prosperity, one that’s proven to work very well thanks to the UK’s Royal family but is rarely discussed or promoted.
Instead, the only possible winners here are those who possess the right tools to best navigate the boom-bust nature of our economy.
It is my contention that those tools are the knowledge of how the 18.6-year Real Estate Cycle works and how best to take advantage of the innate timing it produces as it turns.
You simply must avail yourself of this advantage to ensure your family is on the right side of the trend.
The good news is the greatest gains of the current cycle still await us.
And the Boom Bust Bulletin is precisely how you begin to gain this knowledge and prepare for it.
All for the cost of a takeaway coffee a week.
Best wishes,
Darren J Wilson
and your Property Sharemarket Economics Team
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