The American Monetary Institute has  invited me to speak at their 2010 Monetary Reform Conference, at the University Center in downtown Chicago, between  September 30th and October 3rd. I have agreed, though since this is in the middle of a teaching period for me it will be a “lightning trip” to the USA–leaving Sydney on Wednesday 29th [...]

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The blog now has over 5000 members, and about 40 of them crowded into a small room in the FlatIron district of New York to hear me give a talk on debt-deflation. Since I had the luxury of more time than you get at an academic conference, and an engaging and intelligent audience, I gave [...]

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This is a “remedial” post: I have just posted “Are We It Yet?” to this site, but for some reason it was posted after the “Naked Capitalism” post below. If you’ve already read the paper I gave at the Minsky conference, then you’ve read what’s published there; the main reasons for putting it here in [...]

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I met with Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism on the weekend, at a superb Japanese restaurant that only New York locals could find (and I’ll keep its location quiet for their benefit–too much publicity could spoil a spectacular thing). Yves was kind enough to post details of my latest academic paper at her site in [...]

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If you’ve downloaded and read the paper and presentation I posted in my previous entry, then there’s nothing new for you to read in the body of this post; the main addition is the video below of my talk. That in part gives you rather too good a view of the back of the heads [...]

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This is just a very quick post to make my paper at the Levy Institute available. Later I’ll add a post of the paper itself and a video of the presentation.

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One of the unexpected things I’ve learnt in Boston is that the Global Financial Crisis is not called the Global Financial Crisis in America–and therefore the TLA of the GFC has no meaning here. Instead, in America this might be The Crisis That Has No Name (TCTHNN), because they don’t call it anything at all: [...]

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QED stand for “Quesnay Economic Dynamics”. It is a new software program that has been developed by a correspondent and collaborator (who for the moment wishes to remain anonymous) which implements my tabular method of developing differential equations. I am in a rush right now to prepare papers for a conference trip to the USA [...]

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Unexpected and wonderful things can happen when you stick your neck out, as I have done over Australia’s private debt bubble. The “tall poppy” syndrome can still cut you down, but you also find that people are willing to assist in ways that you’d never think of yourself. One of those has just occurred with [...]

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Jeremy Grantham pricked, if not the housing bubble itself, then at least the bubble that property market spruikers live in, with the quip that: “Bubbles have quite a few things in common but housing bubbles have a spectacular thing in common, and that is every one of them is considered unique and different.” (Housing market [...]

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