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		<title>History of Debt and Property from the Ancient East</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/07/20/history-of-debt-and-property-from-the-ancient-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Hudson As first published in The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times, David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, and William J. Baumol, eds., (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010):8-39. Also on Michael&#8217;s website. A century ago economists could only speculate as to the origins of enterprise. It seemed logical to assume that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mining Democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/07/02/mining-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[resource rentals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=2255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: Urban~Spaceman Miners finally agree to tax reform. What are the changes? The attempt to harness economic rents for the public good has been renamed from the Resource Super Profits tax to the Mineral Resource Rent Tax. The MRRT kicks in at the corporate bond rate plus 7%. That is 12%, rather than the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Counter-Enlightenment</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/05/25/the-counter-enlightenment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 04:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Hudson The Counter-Enlightenment, its Economic Program – and the Classical Alternative Based on a talk given to Prosper Australia on Friday October 16th, 2009. First published in Progress Magazine &#8211; Autumn 2010. Download Progress #1096 here. The last few years have seen Social Democratic and Labour parties fall into disarray throughout the world. Retreating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia’s Needless Foreign Borrowing</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/05/17/australia%e2%80%99s-needless-foreign-borrowing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/05/17/australia%e2%80%99s-needless-foreign-borrowing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 04:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=2128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: Adam_T4 Michael Hudson and Shann Turnbull*              Confronted by the global financial crisis that is burying foreign economies deeper in debt deflation each month, Australia needs to protect itself – indeed, to liberate itself from as many costs and risks as it can. Fortunately, many of its costs and risks are unnecessary, merely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Australia, the world is watching, waiting for our bubble to burst</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/04/29/dear-australia-the-world-is-watching-waiting-for-our-bubble-to-burst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Collyer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=2067</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  photo credit: robertivanc The great property speculation game is over in America and Europe.  The music has stopped. Forty years of steadily increasing pressure has been released.  Houses are worth a fraction of what people paid in better times, while the giant mortgages they took on remain. Meanwhile, Australia parties on.  We play the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planning, Property and Economics</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/04/15/planning-property-and-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: earthsharing australia Thomas Kokkinos-Kennedy Semester 1, 2009, Assessment Two Research Essay Are the concepts and ideas proposed by Henry George in 1879 still relevant in understanding socio-economic aspects of the property market in contemporary Melbourne? This essay will begin with some background to Henry George the man and his historical context, followed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housing Investors on Strike</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/04/12/housing-investors-on-strike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=1944</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: marfis75 That&#8217;s essentially the message from the February Housing Finance figures. With the property market bubbling at extortionate levels, housing investors have decided to go to sleep at just the time they are most needed. In seasonal terms, housing investment fell in total by 3.4%. Housing investment crept upwards by just 0.4% in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put away that cheque book, home buyers</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/03/30/put-away-that-cheque-book-home-buyers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/03/30/put-away-that-cheque-book-home-buyers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Collyer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=1898</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: UGArdener   This morning, Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glen Stevens appeared on Seven Network’s Sunrise program to talk up interest rates and talk down the property market. Using tabloid television to broadcast RBA views is unprecedented. It prefers to communicate via densely written statements, opaque economic speak and background briefings to senior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hudson &#8211; The Bernanke Reappointment: Be Afraid; Be Very Afraid</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/02/02/hudson-the-bernanke-reappointment-be-afraid-be-very-afraid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/02/02/hudson-the-bernanke-reappointment-be-afraid-be-very-afraid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=1735</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Hudson If the economy deteriorates in the L-shaped “hockey-stick” rut that many economists forecast, what political price will President Obama and the Democrats pay for having returned the financial keys to the Bush Republican appointees who gave away the store in the first place? Reappointing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke may end up injuring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Govt Warn on Land Hoarding</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/01/15/chinese-govt-warn-on-land-hoarding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/01/15/chinese-govt-warn-on-land-hoarding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: With debate over the impact of China&#8217;s real estate bubble leading to a stock exchange &#8216;flu&#8217; this week, moves are afoot as: &#8230; today&#8217;s Beijing Youth Daily reports that the Ministry of Land and Resources recently released a list of 18 land development projects nationwide including five in Beijing that involved developers failing [...]]]></description>
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