
Phil Dobbie


Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Is there a ceiling to economic supremacy?
Donald Trump is doing everything he can think off to improve the US economy. Tariffs, cutting government spending, bringing manufacturing back home, accessing more resources and lowering the cost of energy. Will it work? And, […]

Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Immigration. Good or bad?
There is nothing more contentious than immigration, it seems. In the UK there’s a swathe of the population that don’t like foreigners very much, unless they are serving them fish and chips in Torremolinos. Others […]

Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – What will all this inflation do to us?
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 levels of private debt. Now central banks are trying their […]

Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie: QE and the bond bubble
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 were trading insolvent, in other words, even though they […]

Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Who will win the money war between BRICS and the West?
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 international trade? What does it mean for international investment […]

Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – SVB collapse shows there’s no safety in government bonds
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 assets they held, and second the fact […]

Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie: Are Central Banks heading for a fall?
They are pushing up interest rates the world over because monetary theory dictates that this is the way to bring down inflation. But not so long ago those same banks were arguing that inflation was […]

Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie: What’s the right wage?
The UK is gripped by strikes right now, but they are not the only ones. All over the world public and private sector workers are taking action as their salaries fail to keep up with […]

Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie: Return of the Cluster Truss
Keen and Phil Dobbie’s latest ‘Debunking Economics’ podcast: “Over the weekend Liz Truss was singing her own praises, with a front-page article in the UK’s Sunday Telegraph. She is known, of course, for being the […]