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Creation of Money - Dr. Steve Keen, Economist

The DemystifySci Podcast

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Government Debt and Hyperinflation

Many people are worried that the government creating more money is what causes hyperinflation as well. Not if America's had 120 years of running a deficit with a few exceptions, he says. The two exceptions are the 1920s and the late 1990s - both after which there was a financial crisis. So by obsessing about government debt, we ignore private debt, he adds.

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