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		<title>Liberty &#8211; A Word to Conjure</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/07/28/liberty-a-word-to-conjure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: jirotrom We honor Liberty in name and in form. We set up her statues and sound her praises. But we have not fully trusted her. And with our growth so grow her demands. She will have no half service! Liberty! It is a word to conjure with, not to vex the ear in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia wins another international competition!  Hurrah!</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/07/20/australia-wins-another-international-competition-hurrah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Collyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: A Hermida Dear Reader, I have been issuing stern warnings about how Australia’s house prices are too high and must correct soon.  I cannot say when the market will turn, but rabbit on that IT MUST!  IT MUST!  I try your patience. Other Cassandras have come to the same over-priced conclusion.  Last week, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protection for Importers</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/07/16/protection-for-importers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: ob1left Australia&#8217;s tax system protects foreign producers against their Australian competitors, writes Gavin R. Putland in this LVRG article. The Resource Super Profits Tax (RSPT) was sunk by the advertising firepower of the big miners, ostensibly because it would make Australian mineral deposits less competitive with foreign alternatives. The complex, bureaucratic, maximally-interventionist Carbon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investor opinion: an uneasy equilibrium</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/07/15/investor-opinion-an-uneasy-equilibrium/</link>
		<comments>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/07/15/investor-opinion-an-uneasy-equilibrium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Collyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[a running list of warnings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boom-bust]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=2299</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: Dru!   A survey of property investors in The Age today by Colemar Brunton shows sentiment delicately poised between those who see the market flat or falling and those anticipating further rises. This is not the bursting of The Great Australian Property Bubble that Prosper and many other commentators like Jeremy Grantham and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America discovers Gentrification</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/07/13/america-discovers-gentrification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Collyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: Trois Têtes (TT)   In at least 18 major US cities, the trend to suburban living to escape the crowded squalor of inner areas is reversing.  Older buildings are being remade as homes for the affluent after generations as slums. The collapse in US property prices is accelerating the trend. Bright young things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Systemic Analysis: How Close Can One Get?</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/07/10/systemic-analysis-how-close-can-one-get/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this masterful animation to an excellent speech by social theorist David Harvey: Continue on by reading two pieces in the world leading Financial Times newspaper. One by Michael Hudson on Latvia&#8217;s Third Option: As Europe’s banking crisis deepens, Greece’s and Spain’s fiscal crisis spreads throughout Europe and the US economy stalls, most discussions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australians should be very, very angry &#8211; we get no RSPT</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/07/08/australians-should-be-very-very-angry-we-get-no-rspt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Collyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[economic rent]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=2286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: Grégory Tonon   This week’s backdown by the federal labor government on the Mineral Resource Rent Tax will cost Australian taxpayers $35 billion over the next ten years. The shortfall in government revenues will be made up from taxes on work and taxes on business.  That means it is coming out of your [...]]]></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[Talking Points]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry review]]></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>Use Rent to Pay Your Way: Dr Gavin Putland</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/07/02/use-rent-to-pay-your-way-dr-gavin-putland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/07/02/use-rent-to-pay-your-way-dr-gavin-putland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr Gavin Putland]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=2254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When You&#39;ve Paid Your Rent, You&#39;ve Paid Your Way View more presentations from Prosper. Following Gavin&#8217;s recent presentation, we thought those of you who missed it might find this of interest. Flick through the 6 slides according to the audio below. Our premises is based in the Hardware Lane cafe precinct. Enjoy the background jazz. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scenarios for Australian house prices</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/07/01/scenarios-for-australian-house-prices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/07/01/scenarios-for-australian-house-prices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Collyer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=2230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: TerenceKearns.com Residential planning approvals fell another 6.6 per cent in May. No, this isn’t proof the housing bubble is over, but it hints broadly at that conclusion. I try to warn friends of the impending crash.  They dismiss me as a Cassandra, or laugh it off.  Why should it change?  They are geared [...]]]></description>
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