Film Screening for Affordability
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…
Karl Fitzgerald
Karl Fitzgerald was the former Director of Research at Prosper Australia for 18 years. He now leads Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy.
Messing with our Minds – Harrison’s latest
Clearance Calling
photo credit: Cosmic Kitty With auction clearance rates plateauing at 54% for the 3rd consecutive weekend, property pundits are doing all they can to avoid doom and gloom perceptions. The market has ‘found a new level’ is the positive spin.…
Economic deja vu as powers that be play same old tune
photo credit: GFX69 Prosper Australia’s long time Executive member Bryan Kavanagh had this excellent article published yesterday in The Age NOTHING changes. In the 1970s, the collapse of Mainline Corporation and Cambridge Credit heralded a recession after the 1973 real…
The Economics of Climate Chaos
Karl Williams July 2008 It’s one thing to calmly read statistics about climate chaos but a completely different experience to hear the frightening stories from the disaffected. In the remote north-eastern Thai province of Nan, listening to a 60-year-old café…
Fred Harrison: Gordon Brown’s Cover-Up
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How to thaw credit, now and forever
photo credit: Joel Bedford Mason Gaffney October 25, 2008 In a follow up to Professor Gaffney’s The Great Crash of 2008, he now delves into how credit can be freed from the current crisis. The Great Reckoning awaits… 1. Introduction…
Single Renters Miss Out on the PM’s Lifeboat
photo credit: alexkon Karl Fitzgerald Project Coordinator and Web Editor the Saturday Age – Business section, p2, Oct 25th. FREE market principles are being put to the test like never before. With share prices collapsing, policymakers are scrambling to keep…
The Recession We Could Have Avoided part 18
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…
Greenspan Wrong – Admits Ideological Impurities
photo credit: trackrecord Jeffery Sachs was heard sniggering on local radio this morning at the extent to which Greenspan admitted fault. Greenspan has shocked the world by admitting his world-view was incorrect. Referring to his free-market ideology, Mr. Greenspan added:…