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New Look Progress Magazine

The new look Progress Magazine, 105 years young, is hitting mailboxes around the country. Get a trial subscription to keep abreast of the frontiers of privatisation and the blowback we are applying. The September edition includes a Hudson special, with leading...

The Economy in Palliative Care

photo credit: movimente David Smiley (To palliate: to relieve a disease without curing) David Smiley analyses the debate started by Kevin Rudd’s essay entitled ‘The Global Financial Crisis’. While the world’s experts are arguing about how to relieve the pain of...

RBA Policy Matrix

photo credit: DerGuy82 The Reserve Bank of Australia's monetary policy objective is to encourage: (a) the stability of the currency of Australia; (b) the maintenance of full employment in Australia; and (c) the economic prosperity and welfare of the people of...

What Recovery?

photo credit: Mikey G Ottawa Isabelle Oderberg An interview with Michael Hudson via Business Spectator On the eve of an Australian speaking tour, highly-regarded US economist Dr Michael Hudson, talks to Isabelle Oderberg about the economic recovery that isn't, and...

Lifting the Lid on the GFC

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...

Economists Who Dominated the GFC Predictions

photo credit: Stuck in Customs On the first anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, this piece sums up the cause to the GFC, as predicted by 5 economists who subscribe to the line of economic thinking we promote: land rent theory. Dirk Bezener, the academic...

Make a stand

photo credit: eqqman Letter to the Editor Andrew Gunter Hawthorn East THE Housing Industry Association's Gil King says that "any policies that aim to speed up development applications and increase Victoria's housing stock are welcomed" (The Age, 10/9). So does the HIA...

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