Prosper Australia

photo credit: moominsean

Tuesday 2nd March
Phillip J Anderson

Phil Anderson, (Economic Indicator Services) author of The Secret life of Real Estate, will discuss the economic policies of the day in light of his arresting array of charts.

Will the commodities boom push us upwards and onwards or are other issues likely to influence 2010?

Phillip has spent much of the last year traveling the world presenting to packed audiences. We are looking forward to an exciting talk, his last in Melbourne for the next few years.

$5 entry, 6.30 – 8 pm | JASPER HOTEL (former YMCA)
489 Elizabeth Street | Melbourne (right next to the Vic Market)
RSVP

photo credit: MarcelGermain

Wednesday October 14th, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Melbourne Town Hall, Swanston Hall

Greenshoots? Really?
Get the inside story from three people who called it!
Download the flyer

Keynote speaker, Professor Michael Hudson is a renowned economic historian and former Wall Street balance of payments expert currently advising European governments on the global financial crisis. Read his bio here, taking you from the antiquities to the financialisation of globalisation. His most prominent prediction of the GFC was this 2006 front cover piece in Harper’s Magazine.

Steve Keen is a high profile Australian economist who has long challenged the shaky basis of modern economics. His painstaking research reveals that a great part of Australia’s household debt can no longer be repaid.

Bryan Kavanagh is a real estate valuer who has defined and quantified Australia’s real estate bubbles. Of the $2.4 trillion we spent on real estate in the ten years of this bubble, he estimates some 30% will be written off. Bryan Kavanagh predicted the GFC in this 2001 article in Geophilos.

RSVP to book your seat to this free, capacity event.

Leading financial economist and historian Professor Michael Hudson will be touring Australia October 12 – 27. Download the tour flyer

See the Hudson Tour Multimedia Highlights

Professor Hudson was one of twelve economists recognised for predicting the GFC. He is a government advisor to many nations, and is fast gaining a reputation in policy circles as the go-to man in GFC hotspots. This has seen him visit Iceland and Latvia this year to assist policy developments. From Mexico to China to the depths of Wall St, Hudson is an insider to the latest global policy trends.

Prof Hudson was the Chief Economic Advisor to Dennis Kucinich in the recent US Presidential Campaign.

On Monday evening (Oct 12th) make sure you tune into Phillip Adams – Late Night Live on Radio National at 10pm.

Hudson will also be interviewed on SKY News TV (7pm Monday). Our own Renegade Economists radio show will have an in depth interview on the Wed Oct 14th show. A raft of other interviews are lined up.

Read his bio outlining his extensive history in economic policy circles and his prominent position in the global media marketplace. Few can sum up a media sound bite like he can. Hear him on the Renegade Economists discussing Latvia. Check many of his recent pieces here, here or here.

Presentations:

Numbers are building rapidly – RSVP now to assure your place to these free events.

• Wed Oct 14th – Lifting the Lid on the GFC, 6.30pm, Melbourne Town Hall, with Steve Keen and Bryan Kavanagh, RSVP
• Thurs Oct 15th – Economic Policy & Asset Bubbles: The Implications for a Sustainable Society, Melbourne Uni, Centre for Public Policy, 5.30pm, RSVP
• Fri Oct 16th – The Earth vs the Neoliberal Paradigm — the Baltic Experience, Prosper Australia, Frank Halkyard Library, 1/27 Hardware Lane, 7pm, RSVP
• Wednesday Oct 21st – Economics for a Future, CSIRO Discovery Centre, Canberra, 7.30pm, RSVP
• Friday Oct 23rd – Forever Blowing Bubbles: Asset bubbles, economic policy and sustainability, Sydney, Customs House, 6pm, BOOKED OUT

Professor Hudson will also be lecturing at the Federal Parliament’s Vital Issues seminar, presenting to government officials at the Victorian ALP Economics conference and meeting with the Reserve Bank.

Hudson is someone who makes economics imperative to our understanding of freedom. As a testament to his skill, the Polish union movement called a snap strike when he visited earlier this year, demanding all members visit their trades hall to study Hudson’s work so that GFC-like events do not occur again. We are lucky to have this high profile speaker on our shores.

Subscribe to the Renegade Economists podcast, broadcasting weekly interviews on economic issues with experts like Hudson.

118th Henry George Commemoration Address
Tuesday Sept 1st

Speaker: Mr J Kennedy Bennett, Coordinator of Site Rating Defence

A rates analyst for 19 years with valuation work across 12 councils, his current project is uniting the Monash ratepayers behind a full economic disclosure model. We get to hear it first.

Enjoy the welcoming atmosphere of the Pumphouse, just across the road from the Exhibition Building where Henry George gave his 1890 speech to a packed audience.

Meals will be available via the popular “pay as you go” method, starting at around $15.00. We will begin to gather around 6pm. Meals to be ordered by 6.45.

Venue: The Conservatory room, the Pumphouse Hotel, 128 Nicholson St, Fitzroy
RSVP: Friday 28th August if you will be attending.

Download the flyer (right-click)/ have a closer look

photo credit: alles-schlumpf

Date: Thursday July 23rd
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Frank Halkyard Library, 1/27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne
Speaker: Bryan Kavanagh, Research Associate, LVRG

Greenshoots? How bad WILL the Global Financial Crisis be? Why did our economists fail us? What’s the future of real estate? Come and hear Bryan Kavanagh dissect “The Anatomy of the Global Financial Crisis” and explain where it all went wrong.

Kavanagh, a valuer who worked in the Australian Taxation Office and the Commonwealth Bank before co-founding his own valuation practice in 1997, has the runs on the board. He forecast the GFC in the British journal “Geophilos” in 2001, and published a study of Australia’s real estate cycles, “Unlocking the Riches of Oz”, in 2007.

Come and hear Kavanagh’s latest interpretations in the warm atmospheres of our Hardware Lane abode.

RSVP appreciated
Gold coin donation to cover drinks and nibbles

How independence was never intended to mean freedom

When: Thurs April 30th, 6.30 for 6.45pm
Who: Karl Fitzgerald, Prosper Australia Project Coordinator and 3CR’s Renegade Economist.
Download Flyer

Vanuatu means ‘Eternal Land’.

However, our recent visit to these idyllic lands revealed a dark side to the beauty surrounding such a community. Economic policy is out of kilter with the Treasure Island type mentality that wealthy speculators abuse in quoting Vanuatu as the ‘World’s Happiest People’. The free lunch prerogative of the vested interests has the indigenous people of Vanuatu, the ni-Van’s, battling for food in a bounty-ful land .

We returned from Vanuatu in tears at the destruction economic policy was causing. Both working people and capitalists themselves are subservient to the forces that have brought the world economy to it’s knees. We were chased off world heritage land developments by shady property sharks but yet lauded by people in the street for bringing understanding to the economic imperative that land demands.

Australia’s reputation in the Pacific has scarcely been lower. We are facing the likelihood of more Fiji-like revolutions with the current tax policy recommendations of the World Bank, IMF and ANZUS dominating the Pacific.

Foreign aid will be forensically examined and the keynesian limitations discussed during the presentation. We must find a new model for community development. Earthsharing Australia will be discussing this new model within the confines of the projects undertaken with ‘ni-NGO’.

ni-NGO is a ni-Van run NGO that Earthsharing Australia has helped set up. If this model is successful, we will set up Earthsharing Pacific to give both DIY self-support at the micro level, and tax advice at the macro level throughout the Pacific.

Come and hear about the trials and tribulations of one of the world’s most beautiful locations, the progress we have made so far and our outline to assist ni-Van’s regain control over their most precious resource – the land on which they are meant to stand.

Where: Level 1/ 27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne
Entry: gold coin donation – all funding goes towards ni-NGO
Drinks and nibbles to follow
RSVP via Facebook or via email so we know how many goodies to buy.

photo credit: woodleywonderworks

Thursday March 19th
featuring Phil Anderson (Economic Indicator Services)

Event report:
Over eighty people saw Phil speak to a level of investigation very few will go to. Top questions from the audience resulted in Phil discussing the depths of Japan’s recurring economic nightmare, the similarity of ‘debt is death’ type commentaries over the centuries and some alluring discussions on time scales. Interesting predictions were made about geo-political plays around the 2028 date. Why we ask you?
—-
Phil Anderson is the author of the recently released The Secret Life of Real Estate – a must read. Phil’s presentation will briefly outline the history of the 18 year real estate cycle and why this is so important to stock and commodity markets. Then he will outline a little of what can be expected for markets over 2009 and into 2010, with:

- discussion of how past real estate cycles completed, then moved into the new cycle,
- what to look out for as the cycle moves, related in particular to the stock market, and finally (if time)
- a brief look at how this fits with the next upside for the 5th Kondratieff wave.

*Phillip J Anderson is Managing Director of Economic Indicator Services (EIS), an economic forecasting service operating out of London and Melbourne. EIS is the world’s foremost authority in the area of business, real estate and commodity cycles. Subscribers to the service are educated to the movements of these cycles in the economy, none more important than the real estate cycle.

The last time Phil spoke was a sell out. RSVP to book your seat to this vital talk.
$5 donation.
Venue – Level 2/ 1 Spring Street, Table Matters Theatrette, Melbourne
Enter from the Flinders Lane entrance opposite the Sofitel carpark entrance.

View Map
6.45 for 7pm

photo credit: Poppyseed Bandits

When: 7pm, Thursday Dec 11th
Where: Prosper Australia, Frank Halkyard Library, Level 1/ 27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne
Why: Because the US style bailout is heading our way
Who: Fred Foldvary is the Senior Editor of the highly regarded Progress Report.

Fred Foldvary (USA) will provide an explanation of the real estate and business cycles, and their fiscal and monetary causes and remedies. Especially for daring minds, he will explain how to stop the current recession.

Hear Fred’s speech

With auction clearance rates in Melbourne again in the mid 50’s over the weekend (55% this week, re-iterating the trend of the last 2 months), there is a growing backlog of properties waiting to be sold. What is not widely publicised is that there are 30% less properties on the market than this time last year. This implies that beyond the low clearance rate and the mounting number of properties passed in, there is in all likelihood a growing number that are being withheld from the market until prices re-bound.

This is akin to late 2006/ early 2007 in the US housing market when there was a stand off between sellers demanding certain prices and buyers who were unwilling to enter the market. Six months later the mexican standoff was over and a cascade of properties hit the market, pushing down prices and triggering the sub-prime crisis.

Fred is one of our brightest minds. We hope you can attend this important lecture.

RSVP appreciated, gold coin donations to cover nibbles, drinks

The I Want to Live Here film comp is on next Wed Dec 3rd at The Order of Melbourne, Level 2, 401 Swanston St (opp RMIT)

Comedian Rod Quantock will help get us in the mood as we settle in to digest some of the zany films entered. The content will be good motivation for those of us interested in the economic reasons to affordability pressures.

Share households certainly do get themselves into crazy situations!

The first prize winner will receive a $3000 cheque and a big kiss from all renters.

Come and support our local film makers and whilst you are at it, support handmade local craft from the crew at the Melbourne Craft Cartel. They will have stalls set up so you can buy your christmas presents and support local economies over sweatshops, keeping the money in Oz and avoiding those consumer miles (goods flown around the world polluting).

RSVP appreciated

Thurs Nov 6th, 6.45 pm
featuring Dr Gavin Putland
Download flyer

Which politician will use the ‘recession we could have avoided’ line? Rest assured Paul Keating will be invited.

Dr Putland will discuss why asset price bubbles always end in tears. What trends have made such busts more prominent? What can be done to avoid such train wreck recessions?

Why is economic growth irrelevant for the majority of Australians?

You will be staggered to learn just how much extra we could all be earning with a more efficient way of business.

Level 1, 27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne
Gold coin donation to cover drinks and nibbles.