Steven Keen - so did he climb or what?

he did an interview on switzer yesterday - quite interesting. he admits he will have to walk as they extended the first home vendor grant longer than he anticipated. he says we are still in for rocky time as deleveraging and deflation grip for 10 or 15 years and reckons his 40% will come to pass in the fruition of time
 
Oh - and I just noticed 'that other' site has closed down.

Dear **** member

It's with great regret I must inform you I will have to close down the **** forum

I've been suffering some serious health issues and the stress and strain of dealing with problems at **** including hacking and trolls has meant a deterioration of my condition

The URL forum.****.com will be deactived and I've already redirected the URL www.****.com to ****.co.uk

I hope my UK colleagues can migrate to ****.co.uk

For my Australian and NZ colleagues I'll suggest you migrate to one of these sites

Somersoft..... http://www.somersoft.com/forums/external link
AP Forum...... http://z3.invisionfree.com/Australian_Propertyexternal link
Bubblepedia... http://bubblepedia.net.auexternal link

Once more I sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused

Regards

Conrad Greenwood (*****)

OK Alex - you can come back now ;)

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Found the details:
STEPHEN LONG: Now Steve Keen, you've got a bet with a market economist, Rory Robertson of Macquarie, involving house prices, men and mountains. Do you want to explain that bet and how it works?

STEVE KEEN: OK. Now this was sprung on me by Rory to talk at parliament house. The basic details are that if I'm wrong, I have to walk from parliament house to Mt Kosciuszko, if Rory's wrong he's got to do the walk. The conditions that Rory put forward were that if prices fall by less than 20 per cent, I have to walk. If they fall by more than 40 per cent, he has to walk, and there's a dead band in the middle.

The bet from my point of view was always peak to trough. Whatever the peak ends up being, to whatever the trough is over a 10 to 15 year period I expect it to be at a 40 per cent fall. For the sake of closure, we also agreed that the house price index was 131 on the ABS since September 2008. If it breaks that level before 2010, then I will take that as me having lost the second stage of the bet.

STEPHEN LONG: In plain and simple terms then, if house prices have gone up by the end of this year, then you have to walk from Canberra to Mt Kosciusko?

STEVE KEEN: That's right and if they then end up falling later than that stage by 40 per cent from whatever their peak is to whatever the trough ends up being, then Rory has to do a walk and he's a slightly older man than he is now.
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2009/s2688011.htm
 
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