The Everything Bubble -How a Debt Driven Economy Creates More Frequent Crisis
The Everything Bubble How A Debt Driven Economy Creates More Frequent Crises
The Survival Economist: Premiered Apr 16, 2021
The Everything Bubble: How A Debt-Driven Economy Creates More Frequent Crises The pace of global recoveries since 1975 has been slower and weaker, consistently every time, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Recoveries take longer and happen slower. At the same time, periods of crisis are less aggressive albeit more frequent than prior to 1975.
Another interesting evidence of the crises and recoveries since 1975 is that almost all economies end the recession period with more debt than before. Global debt has ballooned to all-time highs, more than three times the world gross domestic product (GDP).
For the economy to really recover, we must stop the race of perverse incentives created by the wrong analysis of the origin of crises and the solutions that are often proposed in mainstream economics and politics.
The two main factors that have driven the phenomenal progress we have seen are free markets and openness. The freedom to innovate, experiment, create and share must come with the right incentives.