I’m one of the presenters at this conference at UTS today. The conference website has a link to all the papers (including mine). As usual, I’ve done an “all singing, all dancing” Powerpoint presentation that has a few additional details to it.
The Paul Woolley Centre is a very useful development, given the bias in academic finance [...]
Paul Woolley Financial Market Dysfunctionality Conference
June & July Debtwatch PDFs posted
I have now posted the PDFs of my June and July reports; hopefully in the next week or so I’ll get a chance to post the text to the blog as well. Apologies again for the slowness here, but conferences and the sudden press coverage on debt worries!
Post coming shortly
This is basically an apology for a slow update rate on the blog right now. I have had two conference trips separated by exam marking and student supervision loads; and I’m sitting in a conference right now. I have two Debtwatch reports to post, updates to do to the Charts page, and plenty of press [...]
Public Talk at UTS today 1pm
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: [...]
Hell’s Belles
This post has nothing–well, almost nothing–to do with debt. But this is a blog, right? So I can post whatever I want.
And what I want is for you to see a new play called Hell’s Belles–or at least spread the word about it. It’s a comedy with the underlying theme of “Be careful what you wish for”: [...]
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