This is something members of the blog won’t be amazed to hear, but it’s a milestone nonetheless: Debtwatch has just had its first two days with more than 10,000 unique readers: There are also something in the vicinity of 500 RSS readers (I would appreciate finding out how many there are right now, from anyone [...]
SBS Dateline tonight with George Negus
George negus is interviewing me and Peter Schiff on Dateline tonight. The topic is the attempted rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and what that may mean for the global economy and Australia in particular. Dateline goes to air tonight (Wednesday) at 8.30pm. It is also accessible on the web, the day after the [...]
3 new podcast entries–and SBS Insight tomorrow
Well Stu Cameron has been on the ball, but clearly I’ve stuffed up linking the files on my site! Several readers have told me that the podcasts 3-6 can’t be accessed. At some stage they will be available, but I have a rush of work on right now so please wait until I put up [...]
Debtwatch Podcast Now Up and Running
The Debtwatch Podcast is now operational. To hear the first interview, download it, and/or subscribe to the monthly feed via Itunes or similar software, please click on the link below: DebtWatch Podcast To subscribe directly, simply copy and paste the link below into your podcast software: Â http://www.debtdeflation.com/podcast/debtwatch.xml Thanks again to Cameron Media Technology for providing [...]
Debtwatch Goes Podcast
By the kind auspices of Stuart Cameron of Cameron Media Technology Pty Ltd, Debtwatch is now going “pod”. Each month’s report will be accompanied by an interview, which will be available for download and subscription via Itunes (etc.). Â The first podcast, which discusses the “Experience can be misleading” election special report, can be accessed here. [...]
Deflated changes in Wages and Debt: 7.30 Report Data
Tables like the ones below take my breath away when I see them for the first time–because the story they tell is worse than any I would have dared make up. As I noted in the interview with Kerry O’Brien on the 7.30 Report, real wages have increased since 1990, and since Australia’s last election [...]
Data for 7.30 Report Interview coming soon…
I provided a number of comparisons of real wages, mortgage payments, interest rates and the like in my interview on the 7.30 Report this evening. I’ll post a table containing those data by tomorrow morning. If you’re a new visitor and would like to receive my Debtwatch Report, which Kerry mentioned in tonight’s interview, please [...]
Link to extended 7.30 Report Interview
The 7.30 Report is making good use of the web with its extended interview feature. These are the edited highlights of the major interviews it does for stories, at best ten per cent of which sees the light of day in the final story. Here is the link to the extended interview with me for [...]
7.30 Report on “American mortgage shock waves hit Australia”
Those of you who missed last night’s 7.30 Report (like myself–I was playing tennis at the time!) should check the link below: Â American mortgage shock waves hit Australia Apologies again for a tardy update cycle on this blog, but as you can imagine, I’m busy as hell right now. When the dust settles–in early October–I [...]
“Total, total bullshit”?
Oh dear. When Nassim Khadim from The Age asked me to comment yesterdy on the electoral assertion being made by the Liberal Party–that rising State debt was putting upward pressure on interest rates–I responded that the assertion was: “Total, total bullshit. It’s like saying that somebody dropped a pebble into the ocean and that caused a tsunami. And you [...]
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- 20070308: Bad debts on the rise in mortgage belt
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- 20070314: LateLine on the US Sub-Prime Crisis - Video of Tom Iggulden’s report on New Century’s woes and arguments (including mine) about its relevance for Australia
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- Two Depressions, One Banking Collapse - An excellent comparison of the 1890 to the 1930 Depression, by Chay Fisher & Christopher Kent, which shows how much more severe the 1890 downturn was for Australia, and the role of debt and housing speculation in that crisis
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