Economist Steve Keen talks to Phil Dobbie about the failings of the neoclassical economics and how i
Central banks assume there is a natural rate of interest – a point of equilibrium at which the deman
Keir Starmer will be the UK’s next Prime Minister. Few things in life are more certain. So why did h
In his election pledges President-Elect Javier Milei promised the people of Argentina two things. Fi
Last year net migration in the UK reached 745,000 people. A new record, which amount to more than 1%
George Osbourne was the UK Chancellor wedded to austerity. “More cuts, more difficult decisions” he
Last Wednesday Optus phone, mobile and internet users in Australia went without and sort of service
Everyone is talking about AI right now. Rishi Sunak’s new best friend is Elon Musk, who has been ove
Marc Andreessen is the brains behind the Mosaic web browser, that paved the way for the web interfac
Entrepreneur Nick Hanauer says he is one of the richest 0.1% of people, but he’s a defender of the p
A simple challenge on the podcast this week – how do you fix world poverty? When he was President of
Rishi Sunak is seemingly proud to have cancelled the only real nation building project Britain has h
Economists like to believe human behaviour is predictable. Otherwise, they probably wouldn’t have a
Liz Truss is back. She kept a fairly low profile after very short tenure as the UK Prime Minister, b
The US dollar is creating real problems right now. Speculators are buying it up as US Treasuries (bo
There’s a vain hope in investment circles, and amongst politicians, that we can still enjoy economic
Are we earning too much? Many of us are now spending less than we earn on day-to-day consumption ite
If he managed to stay out of gaol and makes it to the White House, Donald Trump has proposed a flat
Recently Steve was commissioned to write a report for Carbon Tracker, an independent think tank offe
There has been lots of speculation about BRICs countries working to develop a new trading currency,
QE was big news before the pandemic. Then, as governments issued bailouts to keep us at home, centra
