Program Details - Session V:

Tickets:  Aus$790

Price includes morning and afternoon tea and lunch on all four days of the seminar. We can also offer overseas attendees accomodation advice. The seminar room has limited spacing and reservations will be allocated on a first paid basis.

Program Details - "The Unfolding of the Crisis":

Tickets:  Aus$120 (Aus$90 for Session V participants)

Price includes the usual continuous tea, coffee, sandwiches, cakes etc.

The Australian National University is a magnificant environment. The website can be visited at: http://www.anu.edu.au/unihouse/functions/functions.htm.

Some details on accomodations, travel, etc. can be found here.

All enquiries to Philip Barton at feketeaustralia@yahoo.com.

Those who would like to participate in a remote attendance option (lectures streamed over the Internet with questions e-mailed to the Professor) or who are interested in advanced instruction should contact Tom Szabo at tom@silveraxis.com.

BREAKING NEWS!

Thursday 25th September, 2008, 4:20am. Florida

In light of the situation that has emerged over the last ten days, and due to many, many requests, Professor Antal E. Fekete has agreed to stay on in Canberra for an extra day and to speak on the topic of: ‘The Unfolding of the Crisis’.  Questions will be taken from the floor.

This one-off, special event will take place on Saturday, 15th November.  As this will be the day after the ‘Trading the Basis’ seminar I am writing to urge you to extend your stay in Canberra and to attend if at all possible.

For decades Professor Fekete has predicted the current credit collapse. As he was one of the very few who saw the specific nature of the collapse, so he is the best informed to spell out the likely ramifications now that it is here.

“THIS IS NOT A SUBPRIME CRISIS, NOT A REAL ESTATE CRISIS, NOT EVEN A US DOLLAR CRISIS. THIS IS A GOLD CRISIS: THE CHICKENS OF 1933 AND 1971 ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST, AND THEY WILL TAKE OUT THE US DOLLAR-DENOMINATED CAPITAL OF THE BANKING SYSTEM OF THE WORLD.” -- Professor Antal E. Fekete, Sept. ‘08

The price for this unique and exciting event will be Au$120-. Those who are attending Session V of Gold Standard University Live will be entitled to a discount of 25% on this amount.  The price includes the usual continuous tea, coffee, sandwiches, cakes etc.

This special session will be held at The Australian National University and will run from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. with breaks for coffee/sandwiches etc.  Obviously discussions will continue way beyond 2 p.m.!

Accomodations and Travel

Australian National University has affordable and nicely appointed guest rooms that are a two minute stroll away from the seminar facility. Please contact the University House (http://www.anu.edu.au/unihouse/accomm/accomm.htm) to secure a room. If the University is booked up, there are a number of hotels within a 10-15 minute walk.

Some good sources for Canberra hotels include: http://www.wotif.com/hotels/australia-canberra-hotels-map.html and http://www.cheaperthanhotels.com.au/Australia/Canberra/City/ though there are others that can be found using a Google search for "Canberra Hotels" or the like.

Directions to Australian National University can be found here: http://transport.anu.edu.au/?pid=62.

Canberra Visitor Information: http://www.visitcanberra.com.au/

Transportation Information: Getting Here and Around

Professor Antal E. Fekete and his work
http://professorfekete.com/

Professor Antal E. Fekete is a world-renowned mathematician and monetary scientist.  A native of Hungary, he left for the West in the days of the former Soviet Empire.

In 1974, Antal Fekete lectured on gold in Paul Volker’s seminar at Princeton.  Later, he was appointed Visiting Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research and Senior Editor for The American Economic Foundation. 

In 1996, Prof Fekete’s essay Whither Gold? was awarded first prize in the international currency essay contest sponsored by the Swiss bullion bank Bank Lips.

For many years an expert on central bank bullion sales and hedging, and their effects on the gold price and the gold mining industry itself, he now devotes his time to writing and lecturing on fiscal and monetary reform with special regard to the role of gold and silver in the monetary system.

At this moment, when the world’s monetary system appears increasingly shaky, Prof Fekete details why the current paradigm is flawed and how the problems must be dealt with.  This is almost taboo in the main stream financial media. 

Prof Fekete explains it as a gold crisis, not a dollar crisis.  Those who doubt it would do well to recall that every fiat* money system ever tried – and history is littered with examples – failed.

*Money that is not backed by, or convertible to, any specific commodity and whose only value is that determined by government.