Michael Hudson’s Talk Tonight

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Thanks to all those Debt­watch read­ers who made dona­tions to assist with the costs of bring­ing Michael to Aus­tralia for this speak­ing tour. Rough­ly A$800 has been raised–I’ve allowed $10 for every dona­tion made since I put that mes­sage up to go to Michael’s expens­es, and there have been 81 dona­tions (many of more than $10, some of less) since then.

On tonight’s arrange­ments, since the meet­ing is free, there is no way to lim­it atten­dance oth­er than by “first come, first served”. The organ­is­ers have now received more RSVPs–including Debt­watch donors–than there are seats, so please get there ear­ly: I have had the front rows reserved for Debt­watch donors, but since I am not the pri­ma­ry organ­is­er of the event, if oth­er peo­ple fill avail­able seats before Debt­watch donors get there, there may not be seats left–and the hall has lim­it­ed capac­i­ty (150 seats I believe).

So the best thing you can do if you are a donor and wish to attend (some dona­tions were from inter­state and over­seas), please arrive ear­ly at Cus­toms House tonight–preferably by 5.30pm.

I will attempt to record the event for both pod­cast and vidcast–though my usu­al means of so doing has hit a glitch (I’ll be spend­ing this morn­ing arrang­ing what I can, and buy­ing any hard­ware need­ed using oth­er Debt­watch funds–or my own if they run out).  So hope­ful­ly in a few days I’ll have a blog entry of the event for those who can’t attend.

I have spo­ken with Michael at two events since his arrival, and we’d met ear­li­er (in 2008 at a Post Key­ne­sian con­fer­ence in Kansas City) and cor­re­spond­ed reg­u­lar­ly since then. I can vouch for him being an excel­lent speak­er, and extreme­ly inci­sive in his analy­sis. It will be a very good evening. Thanks again for your sup­port of Michael’s vis­it.

To repeat the event details:

• Venue:  Lev­el 1, Cus­toms House, Cir­cu­lar Quay
• Time:
  • 5.45pm for 6pm kickoff–get there by 5.30pm if you can  to ensure seat­ing
  • 7.30pm fin­ish
• For­mat:
  • Intro­duc­tion by Miri­am Lyons, Cen­tre for Pol­i­cy Devel­op­ment (5 min­utes)
  • Talk by Michael Hud­son (40 min­utes)
  • Pan­el dis­cus­sion (Michael, myself, Adam Schwab)
  • Q&A

For those who have booked for din­ner tonight, that will com­mence at 8pm–so there is some time to chat between the end of the evening’s event and din­ner itself.

See you tonight, Steve