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Steve Keen says leading economists confused debt levels with annual credit flows

Tom Bilyeu Impact Theory · Everything You Know About Government Debt Is Wrong | Steve Keen · August 6, 2026
Steve Keen says leading economists confused debt levels with annual credit flows
Tom Bilyeu Impact Theory
Tom Bilyeu Impact Theory
Everything You Know About Government Debt Is Wrong | Steve Keen
"They mistake credit for debt. Okay? They have no idea. They don't even look at the banking sector."
Keen claims mainstream economists misunderstand basic banking concepts, arguing that a 2010 paper he cites treated debt-to-GDP levels as though they were annual credit flows. He says the error helped economists dismiss credit dynamics during analysis of the 2008 crisis.
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