Dr. Steve Keen
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Learn 50+ Years of Economics in 10 mins a day. Go watch my most popular economic lesson here: 👉 go.stevekeen.com 👈 --- Join Dr. Steve Keen as he shows you how he predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis YEARS before it happened. Welcome to Rebel Economics with Dr. Steve Keen, hosted by the distinguished economist, author, and professor known for his critical perspectives on mainstream economics. In this podcast, Dr. Keen dives deep into the world of economics, debunking traditional theories and offering insights into how economies actually work. You'll explore topics ranging from debt dynamics to environmental sustainability and the pitfalls of economic orthod...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Steve Keen connects economic policy to private credit, bank accounting and the models shaping public decisions.
Steve Keen turns economic argument into a running challenge to conventional models. Some episodes take the form of direct lessons, while others use interviews to test his ideas against current events.
A government deficit enters Steve Keen's model; your balanced-budget reflex leaves by a different door.
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A debt-crisis argument that treats private leverage as the real danger, not just government borrowing.
The episode makes a clear late-cycle debt argument, and it does not stop at government borrowing. It puts private debt at the center of the risk, notes that private debt relative to GDP had reached a new high by 2005, and explains bond sales to non-bank buyers as a transfer that…
A blunt attack on debt, collapse, and economics' blind spots.
Steve Keen makes a forceful case that the U.S. economy is being hollowed out by debt, and he links personal debt, national debt, and the economics profession into a single critique.
A sharp rebuttal to deficit panic, grounded in money, debt, and policy mechanics.
Steve Keen argues, with unusual force, that deficit panic gets the logic backward. Public borrowing is treated as the villain, yet the deeper problem sits in the policy creed built on that belief.
A pointed critique of deficit orthodoxy that keeps circling back to the accounting underneath.
Rebel Economics takes aim at deficit panic by arguing that the usual assumptions are backward: a responsible government is said to run deficits, money creation is presented as different from textbook framing, and austerity is traced back to those errors.
A sharp rebuke of textbook economics that turns rebellion into method.
This episode makes Steve Keen's case against the way economics is usually taught, arguing that textbook models depend on assumptions that do not hold up in practice.
A near-daily politics rundown from Dana Goldberg and Alison Gill on Trump-era legal fights.
Three Slate journalists debate the week's politics, plus live shows and author interviews.
Mike Pesca opens with a monologue, then digs into Supreme Court ethics and Iran policy.
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Professor Steve Keen joins host Kai to analyze the economic fallout from the U.S.
He opens with a warning.
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Steve Keen argues that deficits are not the enemy.
Steve Keen argues that the real problem is not deficits but the economics used to condemn them.
Steve Keen opens by arguing that economics textbooks are teaching a lie.