Economist Steve Keen talks to Phil Dobbie about the failings of the neoclassical economics and how i
Phil and Steve return to the well-worn path of talking about house prices. Why? Because, despite the
The UK is recovering slower than just about anyone from the pandemic. The UK’s GDP is flat compared
One of the biggest problems Britain faces is that so much of the wealth is concentrated in the south
The UK Chancellor and the Bank of England Governor have called for increases in productivity as a wa
We last had a financial crisis in 2008 (ignoring the pandemic years), and if we’re not in another cr
The UK economy is ready for a major downturn. In part it’s down to supply chain difficulties, thanks
If we ignore the flagrant human rights abuses, there’s a lot to admire about China. There economy ha
Older Brits will be familiar with Bruce Forsythe’s Generation. Today everyone is playing the Generat
We know we don’t pay a fair price for energy. Energy companies are making a mint because they extrac
There is about £2.5 - 3 trillion of assets in UK private pension schemes. Through the tax system we
Part of the problem with the global economy is that nobody has a plan, except perhaps the Chinese Co
Central banks seem to be in a rush to offer digital currencies, but why? Conspiracy theories point t
New Keynesian economists have accepted that their HANK model, which models the behaviour of one repr
Reaching net zero – is it doable, or is it just a pipe dream? In podcasts recently Steve Keen has ex
Nobody wins when rates rise. Central banks might argue that everybody wins, because they are using t
There is nothing or contentious that immigration, it seems. In the UK there’s a swathe of the popula
Not so long ago the world was worried about deflation, supposedly driven by low-cost imports from Ch
Silicon Valley Bank collapsed last month because there was a run on the bank and they didn’t have th
After the Great Depression a bunch of economists got together to hatch a plan to stop future runs on
If the west decouples itself from China and other autocratic regimes, just as we have done, to an ex
