Economics
Steve Keen: Are Icebergs Fluffy?
Steve Keen discusses the nature of debt, why home prices will fall, and why the regulators and authorities are unable to disassemble the debt bomb.
Steve Keen
Austerity
Steve Keen – “Greece exits bailout program but economic hardships persist”
After eight grueling years of austerity, Greece today emerged from its bailout program. The $330 billion in loans from the European Union, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund saved the country from […]
Economics
Steve Keen – A Crash in Two Years
Few people saw the Global Financial Crisis coming. Steve Keen was one of them. He is a ferocious critic of the neoclassical school of economics, which continues to dictate thinking within governments, universities and the […]
Economics
Steve Keen – Can we avoid another financial crisis?
This covers a very wide range of topics.
Economics
Steve Keen and Steven Payson – How economics professors can stop failing us
It was the enlightened economist, Joan Robinson who said the purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived […]
Economics
Steve Keen: Some Preliminary Questions for MMT
Steve Keen responds to questions with regards to Modern Monetary Theory reaised by Bill Mitchell. Read here
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen – Hiding in Plain View: Why economists can’t see the obvious coming
Ten years after the crisis, the Australian economist Steve Keen, who has recently joined Finance Watch as an individual member, calls his mainstream counterparts to account for (still) ignoring the very obvious causes of financial […]
Economics
Steve Keen: The housing crisis – there’s nothing we can do… or is there?
The demand side of the housing market has one main factor: new mortgages created by the banks… this means house prices – and the resulting housing crises – are driven by mortgage lending. So how […]
Economics
Steve Keen – Talk with Positive Money
This was a fairly “a la carte” presentation of why bank creation of money matters as part of a Positive Money talk at the Hackney Downs Studios on March 14 2018. Steve started with how […]
Austerity
Steve Keen – Has Europe really recovered?
I cover “the usual” in my talk itself: the empirical data that screams that credit plays an essential role in macroeconomics, the a priori reasons that mainstream economists ignore it, why this is logically wrong […]