Archive for ‘May, 2011’

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May31

5 places at Property Bubble Crash Debate for blog members

by Steve Keen on May 31st, 2011 at 5:00 am
Posted In: Debtwatch

I’m taking part in the “Property Bubble Crash Debate” next Tuesday at the Wesley Centre, 220 Pitt Street, Sydney, 12pm-2pm.

There are 4 speakers for the “No Bubble/No Crash” case”

Tony Hayek (Blue Wealth Property)
Amanda Lynch (Real Estate Institute of Australia)
Shane Oliver (AMP Capital Markets)
Harley Dale (Housing Industry Association)

And 3 for the “Bubble and Crash” case:

David Collyer …

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May26

Recession Sessions: Music for the Great Recession

by Steve Keen on May 26th, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Posted In: Debtwatch

Recession Sessions is an album of economics-themed songs dedicated to the Great Recession. It’s pioneering the genre of “financial folk”, and raising money for the Somerville Homeless Coalition, a homelessness activism group in Massachusetts.

After all the seriousness on this blog, I’m glad to have some artistic commentary on the Great Recession. Often our tribal memories of …

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May25

Prof Steve Keen YouTube Channel in business again

by Steve Keen on May 25th, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Posted In: Debtwatch

Some time back a YouTube Channel “ProfSteveKeen” was established to collate my video interviews. It’s been inactive since then, but recently Sydney writer/director and multimedia reporter Benny Sutton–who has more than a decade’s experience in filmmaking and Australian broadcast journalism–volunteered to produce professionally recorded, regular “Vidcasts” on a range of topics.

The first two, on …

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May17

Invitation from 141 economists to join the World Economics Association

by Steve Keen on May 17th, 2011 at 9:47 am
Posted In: Debtwatch

We, the 141 economists from the 40 countries listed below, invite you to join the World Economics Association which we are launching today.

Two commitments listed in our Manifesto sum up the project.
1. To plurality. The Association will encourage the free exploration of economic reality from any perspective that adds to the sum of our …

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May16

A dynamic monetary multi-sectoral model of production

by Steve Keen on May 16th, 2011 at 12:44 pm
Posted In: Debtwatch

I will be speaking at the International Scientific Symposium for Development devoted to the 110th anniversary of Simon Kuznets in Kyev, The Ukraine, next week. Simon Kuznets, one of the few recipients of the faux Nobel Prize in Economics whose work I respect, was one of the pioneers of empirical research in economics, a student of …

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May13

Two upcoming property debates

by Steve Keen on May 13th, 2011 at 6:52 pm
Posted In: Debtwatch

Surprise surprise–now that house prices are falling, whether they are going to continue falling has become the topic du jour. I have been asked to take part in two debates on this–one an online Webinar organized by Business Spectator, the other a live lunchtime talk in Sydney organised by The Money Institute.

I’d enjoy having …

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May13

Newspapers without sub-editors?

by Steve Keen on May 13th, 2011 at 10:54 am
Posted In: Debtwatch

Fairfax management has recently decided to sack its in-house sub-editors, and out-source the role to the company PageMasters:

Fairfax to look at outsourcing options

Fairfax sets new outsourcing deadline

Fairfax confirms outsourcing plans with 82 jobs to go

Fairfax journalists to discuss strikes

In one way, this move is an understandable response to the impact of the rise of …

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May09

Land of the Tweedles

by Steve Keen on May 9th, 2011 at 10:14 pm
Posted In: Debtwatch

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Australia is once again proving itself to be the Land of the Tweedles. Though Labor and Liberal loudly proclaim their differences, on the key economic issues, they’re (pardon the pun) carbon-copies. Both agree that the Federal Budget should be returned to surplus. Both believe that the “Global Financial …

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May02

House Prices and the Credit Impulse

by Steve Keen on May 2nd, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Posted In: Debtwatch

Today’s figures for the fall in house prices over the last quarter and year were larger than the usual bull-side pundits expected: a 1.7% fall for the quarter (versus the 0.5 percent median prediction of 17 economists surveyed by Bloomberg) and 0.2% fall for the year (versus expectations of a 1.6% gain for the …

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