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Steve Keen talking sense #occupy

Steve Keen talking about debt ponzi and its eventual collapse through deleverage.  It seems the #occupy movement hits the right targets: banks (the banking system including Central Banks, hedge funds, investment banks and FRB); corporations and an inept political class desperate for the status quo to remain.

As usual pokes fun at neo-classical economics, and the omission of debt from economic thinking....

Don't think he's well read on Austrian school - Mises said similar pre World War I in The Theory of Money and Credit.

"The only circumstance that is of importance here is that the loans are granted out of a fund that did not exist before the loans were granted. In all other circumstances, whenever loans are granted they are granted out of existing and available funds of wealth."

http://mises.org/books/Theory_Money_Credit/Part3_Ch15.aspx#_ednref1

 

Watch Steve in action:  Occupy Sydney Click to watch

 

 

 


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