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Steve Keen beats the debt drum, again

June 11, 2009 – 8:58 am

Keen, an academic from UWS, became a media darling last year by predicting the economic equivalent of the end of the world as we know it in the midst of the worst days of the GFC. The media lapped up his “its much worse than you think” message. Just how responsible it is to pour [...]

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Steve Keen cries wolf again

March 22, 2009 – 10:57 am

AUSTRALIA is facing its own version of the US sub-prime housing crisis, with thousands of young homeowners risking bankruptcy as a result of Kevin Rudd’s economic stimulus package.
That is the grim warning from the economic expert who first called the debt crisis that is driving the global financial meltdown.
Dubbing the looming crisis “Sub-Prime Lite,” Professor [...]

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Steve Keen (UWS) vs. Gerard Henderson (SMH)

October 21, 2008 – 1:32 pm

Gerard Henderson attacked Keen in the SMH this morning and Keen has promptly responded on his blog this morning (and carried in Crikey).
I worked with Steve Keen in the Commonwealth Public Service many years ago, in a unit that produced Australia Reconstructed. Keen has always been serious, iconoclastic and a devotee of Maynard Keynes.
I have [...]

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