They found nothing because it’s been there the whole time.

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If you enjoyed this video, you might also like my most popular video, "Don't Study Economics, Study THIS Instead." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO7iCv_NsPE -- Who is Dr. Steve Keen? Dr. Steve Keen is an influential economist who has dedicated over 50 years to challenging mainstream economic theories. Since his days as a university student, he has been engaged in a David vs. Goliath battle against conventional economic models. Holding a Ph.D. in economics, Dr. Keen is...

What the hell are government savings?

My latest from The Guardian =With the resumption of parliament this week, and an election only months away, we have seen even more of the usual point-scoring about the cost of living, tax breaks for long lunches and budget deficits. But since the return of Donald Trump to the White House, the assumptions on which Australian economic policy have always been based are obsolete. We must ditch the illusion that the US will return to normal and instead become more self-reliant With...

This video lecture focuses on the current crisis of Economics and the relevance of Political Economy as a realistic and credible alternative. The last global capitalist crisis of 2008 reopened discussions on the issue of economic crisis; an issue long forgotten by the dominant tradition within economic theory, Economics. Economics (that is the study of the economy in abstraction from social and political relations, as a ‘play’ between individuals and not between social classes) has...

The Financialisation Hypothesis (FH) is very popular nowadays as a purportently radical explanation of contemporary capitalism. My lecture argues to the contrary. First, FH is not an exclusively radical perspective; on the contrary, there is a very vibrant mainstream economics’ financialisation current. Second, FH miscomprehends capitalism’s modus operandi because it fails to grasp properly its class structure and its mechanisms of exploitation. Third, FH erroneously rejects the Marxist...

Marxist critique of the Financialisation Hypothesis

And all the sheep sell.

You’re getting nothing out of DOGE, yet you are cheering.