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DebtWatch Podcast
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 http://www.debtdeflation.com/podcast/debtwatch.xml
Thanks again to Cameron Media Technology for providing this service.

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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.).
 The first podcast, which discusses the “Experience can be misleading” election special report, can be accessed here. Shortly [...]

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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 [...]

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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 click [...]

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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 their [...]

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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:
 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 hope to [...]

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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 can [...]

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Will Budget tax cuts fuel inflation?  (click here for the MP3 file)
PM - Wednesday, 9 May , 2007  18:14:52
Reporter: Stephen Long
MARK COLVIN: Now, will the tax cuts in the Budget cause inflation?
Some leading economists argue that the Reserve Bank could be forced to lift interest rates down the track because Government spending and tax cuts [...]

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I’m speaking at Reality Check, as part of the ALP Fringe Conference program, which runs parallel to the national conference and provides NGOs and other groups with an interest in influencing ALP policy with a platform to host discussions and seminars.
I’m one of three speakers and we have only one hour, so it will be rushed: [...]

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As part of the background to the LateLine interview yesterday, I graphed the US household debt to GDP ratio against the Australian. All the news recently has been about the sub-prime crisis in the States, of course: but guess where household debt has been growing fastest? That’s right, good old Australia has out-done itself once [...]

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