Carson Scott interviewed me for Sky News Business Channel last week for the program On The Record. Rather than focusing on the news of the day, this program attempts to give the background to people in public life.
As such there’s more of a focus on the reasons why I have taken the activist stand that [...]

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Max Keiser interviewed me in his inestimable style on the Max Keiser Report earlier this week, and the interview is now available (the interview began at roughly midnight my time on a day that had started for me at 5am, so there are some slips in my delivery here–for instance at one point I say “fail [...]

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Alan Greenspan has been judged the economist most responsible for causing the Global Financial Crisis. He, and 2ndand 3rd place finishers Milton Friedman and Larry Summers, have won the first–and hopefully last—Dynamite Prize in Economics.
In awarding the Prize, Edward Fullbrook, editor of the Real World Economics Review, noted that “They have been judged to be the three economists [...]

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I’ve been a fan of Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury cartoon since my student days (when, coincidentally, Trudeau was profiling life as a university student).
As any reader of the strip knows, unlike most comic strips the characters in Doonesbury age and move with the times. Today’s times are those of a financial crisis, and once again I’m playing [...]

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Many visitors to this site have commented that, though the discussions are very informative, they are also very difficult to follow. A discussion that begins under one post will recommence under another, and with over 200 posts and 16,000 comments so far, that makes following a complete thread of discussion effectively impossible. It was noted [...]

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(Edit: Please note that there is a footnote to this story)
I normally don’t comment on articles about me, since I am aware that now that my views are part of the public debate, I have to take the good with the bad in coverage. I wouldn’t have written this either, were it not for the [...]

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The Dynamite Prize for Economics–to be awarded to the three economists most responsible for the Global Financial Crisis–is going gangbusters with over 14,000 votes so far.
It may pick up even more thanks to some excellent work by Business Insider/Clusterstock, which has produced a brilliant graphic illustrating the prize.
It’s magnificent, and here it is below for [...]

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As most Australian readers would know, I recently lost half of a bet over Australian house prices when the Government’s “First Home Owners Boost”–which I prefer to call the First Home Vendors Boost–reignited Australia’s house price bubble.

As a result, I’m walking from Australia’s Parliament House to Australia’s highest mountain, Mt Kosciousko–a distance of 224km (140 miles). [...]

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Peter Switzer interviewed me on his cable TV show for Sky News last week.
You can watch the interview here. I would also recommend watching the interview with John Hewson (for international viewers, John Hewson was a previous leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, which despite its name is Australia’s conservative political party), in which amongst other [...]

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Voting is now open for what has been renamed the Dynamite Prize in Economics.
The renaming was necessary because the owners of the Ig Nobel Prize objected to the similarity–which is understandable. They also suggested the Dynamite Prize as a useful alternative.
We are, after all, intending to award the prize to the three economists who did most to [...]

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