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Professor Keen just dropped an absolute BANGER that's going to make every mainstream economist cry. This one's called "Why Economists Deserve a Mark Twain Award for Confident Falsehoods" and it's absolutely mind blowing. Here's what he tears apart: ✅ Ben Bernanke's catastrophic prediction 3 weeks before the 2007 crisis ✅ The accounting errors that violate basic double-entry bookkeeping ✅ Why economists ignored 170 YEARS of debt data ✅ How the loanable funds model crashes and burns when you apply real accounting If you've ever wondered why economists keep getting everything wrong, this is the video that explains it all 👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeL3YlJHi6w&views Drop a comment on YouTube if this blows your mind. 🧠💥 And as always—share this with anyone who still thinks mainstream economics makes sense. Time to wake people up! 🚨 #RebelEconomics #SteveKeen #DebtDeflation #MonetaryTheory

My apologies about the abrupt failure of tonight’s lecture everyone. As I’m sure you guessed, it was because of an abrupt failure of the internet at my friend’s house here in London. I couldn’t get it to reconnect, and even my iPhone’s Vodafone wouldn’t work! This country is saving its future by bankrupting its present. The internet system in my home town of Amsterdam is far superior. But I’m stuck here for 3 more weeks so as to not breach the Schengen visa waiver rules. I’ll see if I can use Carbon Tracker’s office next week, where this sort of thing won’t happen. I hope.

Having finished reading it, I’ll try not to give spoilers because I think it’s such a worthwhile read. But I can’t help making some observations, to give a kind of warning. In my initial comments on the book at - https://www.skool.com/debunking-economics-7964/initial-reaction-to-stuart-kells-alice-book?p=6539c01e I described its author Kells as something of a modern-day Diarist. That likely seemed negative, and I meant it to be so. On encountering the book I doubted the author’s provenance to be able write with precision about intricate details of the distinctly non-obvious world of high finance, since Kells was and is a complete outsider to that world. Yet in the second half of the book, onwards from Section 4 ‘The Invention’ almost to the end, the skills and outlook of a meticulously detail-obsessed diarist are exactly what I think are needed, to tell the complete and full story with all its broad and profound implications. A specialist would likely have too narrow a grasp to properly encompass the whole. And Kells has - as is obvious from his extensive 'Acknowledgments' - something of an army of specialists at his side. Second 4 shows just how many parties and how many different sorts of skills lay behind the Alice project, while Sections 5 and 6 describe the tangles of the complicated and evolving context of the project, financially, politically and socially. My warning is about the concluding part of Section 6, called ‘Don’t look back’, where diarist-Kells doesn’t flinch at making disappointment, pain and tragedy leap off the page. So I’d say the book’s message to activists is that the game really is rigged - even the supposedly neutral and objective law isn’t necessarily unbiassed. Yet the story the book tells doesn’t really end there - and it might well continue to have ‘legs’ into the unforeseeable future. In the last full Chapter, ‘Today and Tomorrow’ Kells turns philosophic, writing more like a pragmatic systems-analyst than any kind of Diarist. He explains why he thinks the decisions that led to the outcome of his story are a mis-step, with broad and serious consequences. I think he implies that hope for the future requires amending those decisions, however impossibly-hard a task that might seem today.

There's a detailed article about that question, at - https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/13/are-heat-pumps-more-expensive-to-run-than-gas-boilers The short answer is 'It depends". But get those dependencies right and the cost benefits can be large, quite apart from saving planetary eco-systems and defending the future of humanity. Sadly (but maybe to stay focussed on one topic) the article doersn't talk of other rather important issues, such as the level of insulation (Passive-Haus style) and the use of heat-recovering forced-air ventilation. The long answer is that a widespread shift to heating by heat pumps will likely require government intervention and subsidy in the short to mediun term, over-riding market forces. It is really true that because the market can't do it, it shouldn't be done ? Such seems to be the legacy of neoliberal ideology. Happy days ?