Debunking Economics - the podcast

Part of the problem with the global economy is that nobody has a plan, except perhaps the Chinese Communist Party. Elsewhere politicians lurch from one crisis to another, and any lon...

Central banks seem to be in a rush to offer digital currencies, but why? Conspiracy theories point to China, and visions of private bank accounts monitored by the state to counter the hid...

New Keynesian economists have accepted that their HANK model, which models the behaviour of one representative agent, doesn’t explain the outcomes on different income groups. As we know, ...

Reaching net zero – is it doable, or is it just a pipe dream? In podcasts recently Steve Keen has expressed thoughts that we are already too late to avoid catastrophic climate change. But...

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 inflation. But the wealthy lose out be...

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 they are serving than fish and chips ...

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 b...

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...