Is the UK heading into VERY dark times? Top Economist explains (with proof)

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Top Economist Steve Keen explains why UK “debt doom” stories keep missing how money is actually created. Using double-entry accounting and Ravel demos, Steve shows the flaw at the heart of scary long-run projections: a textbook model where banks are mere intermediaries. Switch to the real-world model, banks create deposits when they lend, and those exponential debt paths flatten, without freezing pensioners or gutting public services.

In this video, you’ll discover:

✅ Loanable Funds vs reality: why “savers fund borrowers” breaks basic accounting

✅ How banks create money: loans up → deposits up (and what that means for GDP)

✅ Why OBR-style projections explode: models that exclude bank money creation

✅ Deficits in the ledger: spending creates deposits and reserves; surpluses destroy them

✅ Interest and debt ratios: why they taper in an accounting-consistent model

✅ Sterling, inflation, and “confidence”: narratives vs mechanics

✅ Policy takeaway: don’t fix fake problems by creating real ones

Key insights:

• If your model treats banks as pass-through vessels, you’ll miss how credit drives income and nominal GDP.

• Government insolvency in its own currency isn’t the risk; bad accounting is.

• Debt ratios that “go to the moon” are artifacts of the wrong production function for money.

• Sound analysis starts from balance sheets, not vibes: assets, liabilities, equity must balance on each row.

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What did you think of the BOMD vs Loanable Funds comparison? Should fiscal policy be set by accounting-consistent models? Comment below.

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Who is Dr. Steve Keen?

Dr. Steve Keen is an economist known for accounting-consistent, dynamic models of money and debt, and the creator of the Minsky and Ravel tools. He replaces classroom parables with operational mechanics — essential for engineers, finance professionals, and anyone who wants clarity over ideology.

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