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Role of private debt in the economy

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Steve Keen
Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian-born, British-based economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. The major influences on Keen's thinking about economics include John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Hyman Minsky, Piero Sraffa, Augusto Graziani, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Thorstein Veblen, and François Quesnay.

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  1. GhostOnTheHalfShell

    Banks don’t actually create money in lending. They create a claim on it, while they credit the lent sum to the borrower. The loan asset is not cash, but a contract for stream of payments over a set period of time. That asset is not something they can lend against, they have to sell the contract or some other asset (even to the CB) to do so.
    Like economics, finance is filled with definitions mathematicians would call.. what’s term of art? Ah yes, crap.

    • Read more about Richard Werner! You sound unknowledgeable

    • GhostOnTheHalfShell

      @Felix Ayenor the more closely i read the boe or other CB materials, the more i have arrived at this. the issue, and i have my snarky mathematician hat on here, is “money” is sloppily and absurdly loosely defined. in other readings, say of the definition of the money supply (richmond fed), m0 is a tautology. i now understand why Creutz was at pains to define money in the money syndrome in the first chapter.

  2. Lozart and the Stinky

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  3. An excellent summary of how money works by the world's foremost economist. Unfortunately, all too many still hold the view that debt comes from other people's deposits. If that were the case, ATMs would sometimes deny our withdrawal requests with a message saying, "Sorry – your money is currently being loaned out." 😅

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