photo credit: zoonabar David Pecotic Getting Any Logic from the Property Bulls and Spruikers is Almost an Impossible Task [While the rest of the media and sundry commentariat is busy counting unhatched chickens, Money Morning revisits demand, supply and price and asks why a shortage of bananas is not like a housing shortage.] Renters:Stop Walking on Egg Shells [Interesting commentary … Read More
Conflict of Interest
Renegade Economists Podcast 103 As broadcast on the almighty www.3cr.org.au on Wed August 26th. Subscribe to the podcast by clicking on the Itunes logo (top right hand side of the front page – the blue note) Conflict of Interest: An interview with Wendell Fitzgerald on the conflict that land owning MP’s and bankers face. A special extra long (podcasters only) … Read More
Fast Forward News #3
photo credit: Corey Tegeler David Pecotic Two great new Australian e-gov mashups: Key Indicators Graph [Over at their Betaworks blog, the ABS has published an interactive graph that can display key indicators such as the unemployment rate, the consumer price index, gross domestic profit, average weekly income, and (most importantly for our purposes) the house price index. This is the … Read More
Economics for Activists 2009
Tuesday September 8 – 22nd, 6.15 – 8pm 1/ 27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne Universal economic laws must be understood if we are to change the system. How can we engage in this game of life without understanding the rules of engagement in this money dominated paradigm? Learn to speak in the same language as the corridors of power … as … Read More
Dissecting America
photo credit: al-zahra Renegade Economists Podcast 102 As broadcast on the almighty www.3cr.org.au 19/08/09 Dissecting America: Karl returns from the US armed with signs, stats and interviews from the raw edge, defining a crumbling empire. Show Notes Interviews with Na-Haaa (Sunset Boulevard, LA), Leon the taxi driver (Cleveland, Ohio) and the renegade at the bus stop (San Francisco): checking in … Read More