Prosper Australia

photo credit: net_efekt Thurs Oct 7th, 6.30pm, 1/ 27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne Karl Williams Wiki defintion: Fair trade is a financial relationship between producers, sellers, and consumers based on the principle of equity within the exchange of goods. Equity is achieved via creating a platform for trade that is transparent and therefore accountable for the [...]

Causes Behind the Global Financial Crisis and 70′s Stagflation Presenter: Steven Spadijer (ANU) 119th Annual Henry George Commemorative Dinner Thursday Sept 2nd, 6pm onwards RSVP by Friday 27th August. Steven Spadijer is an honours student in Arts/Law at the Australian National University, where he is currently completing a series of papers on business cycles the [...]

photo credit: karola riegler photography Thursday June 24th 7pm, 1/27 Hardware Lane Dr Gavin Putland The powerpoint and audio have been uploaded here Australia’s residential land prices, commonly but incorrectly conflated with “house” prices, started falling in 2008. Having seen what falling “house” prices did to the financial systems of other countries, the Federal Government [...]

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? [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]