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Post #4181317
2026-07-29 02:45 UTC
https://keenlens.substack.com/p/the-bank-of-england-admitted-in-2014
'I see everyday #politicians repeat like parrots #economic propositions they don't even start to understand, defending a model that a central #bank admitted was wrong over twelve years ago. ... The #Greens propose actual structural change and get labelled "communist" by people who have never read a balance sheet or a #Lenin text. The heterodox approach #predicted #2008, predicted the #housing #crisis, and predicted the current private #debt trap. The orthodox models predicted none of it ...'
'The orthodox model was declared wrong by the Bank of #England in 2014. Their paper “#Money Creation in the Modern Economy” stated plainly: #banks do not lend out deposited #reserves in a multiplier chain. Banks create #deposits when they make #loans ...'
(NZ's Social Credit Party got a Court to agree five decades earlier.)
'The consequences are not theoretical or academic. When you worship the wrong model, you can’t do anything else than design the wrong #policy. You pretend not to see the #monopoly extracting over 6 billions from a #mortgage market they control 87% of. You don’t see that raising rates shift #income from #borrowers to banks and does not touch the supply of housing stock. You end up believing the #household metaphor is literal — that the Crown pockets are empty — when #NZ’s #Crown debt is 44% of #GDP...'
(The OECD average is about twice that.)
'... #Galileo was almost burned at stake for simply asking the #Inquisition #judges to look in the telescope. Same old, same old.'
'.....
'Gentlemen, it is clear cut #class #warfare, and the #vested interests are so encrusted in #society that they are winning. Remember that their main weakness is in numbers, they are damaging and literally #robbing the majority of us, of the New Zealand society and brainwashing many trees to think that voting for the axe is the #prudent, #family sensible thing to do. The only chance you have is when numbers talk. The #election is coming...'
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@RFPatterson@mastodon.nz I replied to Zack Polanski about this the other day, with further resources for an equity-based model. Glad to see I'm not totally alone on this!
Just as an aside, the BoE initially released this in 2012, the only difference being they said initially that they adjusted private bank reserves mechanically based on the amount of credit they had sold at a given time (not a biggie, it's a central bank change in policy). But that's been wiped from the internet and I've long since lost my copy.
https://infosec.exchange/@davep/116988976316954113
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@RFPatterson@mastodon.nz If neoliberalism were a valid premise, the market would have sorted everything out by now. All that has trickled down to the 99% has been sewage.
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