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Rate rises and inequality
Season 1 Episode 348
Nobody wins when rates rise. Central banks might argue that everybody wins, because they are using these rises as the blunt instrument to knock down …
3 years, 4 months ago
Immigration. Good or bad?
Season 1 Episode 347
There is nothing or contentious that immigration, it seems. In the UK there’s a swathe of the population that don’t like foreigners very much, unless…
3 years, 4 months ago
What will all this inflation do to us?
Season 1 Episode 346
Not so long ago the world was worried about deflation, supposedly driven by low-cost imports from China, but also a stagnating economy driven by high…
3 years, 4 months ago
QE and the bond bubble
Season 1 Episode 345
Silicon Valley Bank collapsed last month because there was a run on the bank and they didn’t have the assets to cover their customers deposits. They …
3 years, 4 months ago
Chicago Plan – why it never went anywhere
Season 1 Episode 344
After the Great Depression a bunch of economists got together to hatch a plan to stop future runs on banks. The plan called for banks to only accept …
3 years, 4 months ago
Who will win the money war between BRICS and the West?
Season 1 Episode 343
If the west decouples itself from China and other autocratic regimes, just as we have done, to an extent with Russia, what does that mean for interna…
3 years, 5 months ago
SVB collapse shows there’s no safety in government bonds
Season 1 Episode 342
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last week can be put down to two things – first a management team that clearly ignored the falling value of the a…
3 years, 5 months ago
Australian House Prices. That old Chestnut.
Season 1 Episode 341
At the end of this week’s mega-long episode of the Debunking Economics Podcast Steve Keen admits he longer sees Australian house prices as the most i…
3 years, 5 months ago
Future Cities, Unequal Cities
Season 1 Episode 340
This week on Debunking Economics Phil and Steve are joined by Richard McGahey, author of a new book “Unequal Cities: Overcoming anti-urban bias to re…
3 years, 5 months ago
Are central banks heading for a fall?
Season 1 Episode 339
They are pushing up interest rates thew world over because monetary theory dictates that this is the way to bring down inflation. But not so long ago…
3 years, 6 months ago