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IL09: The Money Revolution...Rethinking Economic Growth ft. Richard Duncan

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Credit Growth - The Main Driver of Economic Growth

Total credit to GDP went from something like 130% in 1950 to 180% in 1980. That first went through $1 trillion in 1964 when I was three years old. By 2008, it had expanded 53 times to $53 trillion and now it's $91 trillion. The problem is in 2008 then the private sector couldn't repay all of the debt that it had taken on in the housing boom years. And they started defaulting on the debt. At that point, credit started to contract and the US started to go into a great depression.

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