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5/15 Steve Keen: Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?

May 15, 2017
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ND’s Kevin Cramer gets humiliated by constituent stuffing cash in his lapel.

Today, author Steve Keen joins us to talk about his book, “Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?” Why economist Hyman Minsky was asking the right questions about the Great Depression. Classical economics finance blind spot. Capitalism’s boom-bust cycle. Modern monetary theory. Why Germany is seemingly immune from these private debt level issues.

On the fun half – Gregg Popovich blasts “Game Show” Donald Trump, Joe and Mika throw KellyAnne Conway under the bus, Nikki Haley calls Trump the CEO of America, North Carolina Republicans are still racist, right-wing nutjobs, and Rep Rodney Frelinghuysen of NJ gets a bank employee fired for being anti-Trump.

 

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