Steve Keen’s Debt Watch

Speculative Lending Fueled Economic Crises.

Quantitative easing is often seen as a necessary tool for economic recovery. Many believe it stimulates growth and helps everyone. But this belief is fundamentally flawed. It primarily inflates asset prices, benefiting the wealthy. The rich own most shares. So, when asset prices rise, they reap the rewards. Meanwhile, the majority, who own minimal shares, see no benefit. This creates a widening economic divide. Imagine a balloon. When you blow air into it, the balloon...

Economics Textbooks Are Stuck in Time!

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The common belief is that economic growth is a straightforward path to prosperity. This notion is wrong because it ignores the complex dynamics of debt and credit. When we chase growth without understanding the underlying financial structures, we end up in a cycle of increasing debt. Think of it like a balloon. You can keep inflating it, but if you don’t pay attention to the pressure, it will pop. In the 1920s, the U.S. experienced a roaring economy fueled by excessive...

Economics: The Dangerous Cult.

The belief that climate change will have minimal economic impact is dangerous. It’s like thinking a small crack in a dam won’t lead to a flood. At 10°C warming, regions like Florida will be underwater. Imagine your home being swallowed by the ocean. That’s not just a distant possibility; it’s a looming reality. We must take drastic action now to mitigate these effects. Ignoring this is like watching a forest fire spread while holding a garden hose....

Workers Bear Capitalism's Costs.

Ravel is a whole new way to analyse multidimensional data--which is anything that won't fit into the rows and columns of an Excel spreadsheet. This gives it much more power than Excel, but it also presents challenges when you import a CSV file into Ravel. The cause here is what is known as "the curse of dimensionality". A CSV file in Excel is just a 2-dimensional array of unrelated numbers, and its memory needs are the number of rows, times the number of columns, times how many...

Herds Don't Survive Economic Cliffs.