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National debt and private debt – how one can help the other?
Season 1 Episode 10
The media, governments and mainstream economists are obsessed with concerns over government debt. Yet in the UK and most other developed nations priv…
9 years, 8 months ago
How Much is Free Trade Costing Us?
Season 1 Episode 9
Back in 1817, in his catchy titled book ‘On the principle of political economy and taxation’, David Ricardo gave the mathematical argument for free t…
9 years, 8 months ago
Influencing the Speed of Money
Season 1 Episode 8
Milton Friedman had a theory that the wealth of a nation was determined by the amount of money and the velocity of that money. In other words, if we …
9 years, 9 months ago
Austerity is Chipmunk Thinking
Season 1 Episode 7
In this podcast Phil Dobbie talks with Steve Keen about the rationale behind government austerity measures, the thinking being that government debt i…
9 years, 9 months ago
Monopolies – a Necessary Evil?
Season 1 Episode 6
In this episode Steve Keen argues that monopolies commissions have got it wrong, believing the consumer wins when all firms in an industry are of sim…
9 years, 9 months ago
Trump won because trickle-down economics doesn’t work
Season 1 Episode 5
Trump’s unexpected win reflects the dissatisfaction of huge swathes of disenfranchised voters across America. They are upset because they are not see…
9 years, 9 months ago
Brexit is Needed to Bring Down the EU
Season 1 Episode 4
In this edition of the Debunking Economics podcast Steve Keen explains why he is an ardent supporter of Brexit. Phil Dobbie, who believes Britain sho…
9 years, 9 months ago
Interest rates - do they really control inflation?
Season 1 Episode 3
Reserve banks spend a lot of time discussing the interplay between inflation and interest rates. In this third episode of the Debunking Economics pod…
9 years, 9 months ago
The crazy (and not so crazy) ideas of Donald Trump
Season 1 Episode 2
Donald Trump has some weird ideas. Building a wall along the southern US border and getting Mexico to pay for it, for example. But, as Steve Keen exp…
9 years, 9 months ago
Inflation. Is it a good or bad thing?
Season 1 Episode 1
This week the inflation rate in the UK hit one percent. It’s a long way from the high teens of the late seventies and early eighties. In this inaugur…
9 years, 9 months ago