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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
I won!
I won my debate today with Steve Keen in front of 500 investors at the Park Hyatt in Melbourne. The audience was asked to electronically score the result, and I came up trumps 5.2 to 4.9. Steve and I are locking horns again in Sydney on Friday.
