Economics lectures introducing first year undergraduates to the subject:

1. The blurred interface between politics and economics
2. Points of interest in market theory
3. The supply side of the market and the importance of diagrams
4. Market failure and market imperfections
5. National statistics: useful or useless?
6. Simple models to explain why economists support more or less economic intervention
7. Inflation is a real problem and economic growth is a real solution
8. Money, money supply, money creation, monetary demand and monetary policy
9. Fiscal policy is great in theory and a failure in practice
10. International economics, saving the best `til last

Banking and finance lectures introducing first year undergraduates to the subject:

1. The roots of money, banking and finance
2. Common confusions and the need to use terms correctly
3. Inside and outside banking: the money and income multipliers
4. The most misunderstood and misused terms in business and banking: capital adequacy & liquidity
5. Are financial markets efficient?
6. Should retail banking be separated from other forms of banking?
7. Derivatives: the good, the bad and the ugly
8. The Bank of England: villain or saviour
9. Central Banks, deflations and depressions
10. Central Banks, inflation, hyperinflation and depressions

Miscellaneous lectures with some controversy

1. Does the economy need politicians and politics?
2. Creating a more efficient tax and welfare system using Reverse Income Tax
3. What the Chancellor of the Exchequer will do in the forthcoming budget and what won`t, but should be done
4. Not only is Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) wrong, but it is dangerously wrong
5. The wonders of free market capitalism
6. Can economists explain/predict the forex rate of a currency
7. Is crypto` the new gold standard?
8. The Keynesian /monetarist debate
9. Cause and cure of inflation

Chats with influential people around the world

1. Paul Fisher, ex Bank of England and MPC and I discuss:
2. Inflation
3. Quantitative Easing
4. Interest rate setting by Central Banks
5. Fiscal Policy
6. Economic Growth
7. Paul and I answer questions from previous chats
8. Carmelo Ferlito CEO of the Center for Market Education, Malaysia
9. RTDtv Detroit “Live with Mike”
10. Daniel Lacalle Chief Economist at Tressi
11. Crypto currencies with Rian McKay in Australia
12. “Drive time” on the Voice of Islam Radio
13. Chatting to Bitcoiners https://t.co/WVAc7gbPBd?ssr=true
14. https://youtu.be/dFiPWHl_Ujo?si=NUn6XckZJeQz8c3oThe state of the State and will Bitcoin be a saviour? A podcast with Lea Meakin
15. https://youtu.be/SKiGSTsfl9s?si=boZdgJM1pJTnn1hv A chat with Mike on the state of the economy from RTD Detroit.
16. https://www.youtube.com/live/kxxgn0dUZRA?si=y0cEveBpKG6fBcAx A chat with Patrick L Young on “What is wrong with economics, economists and the economy”
17. https://tinyurl.com/5n6nykz6 A chat with Suhk about economics and how macroeconomic policies need to change to achieve economic growth and make us all better off.

Blog articles in descending order back to 2015

1. A collection of 5 LinkedIn Economics Briefs. https://jbhearn.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=896&action=edit
2. The cause of inflation and consideration of the term deflation
3. Stagflation and why government makes things worse
4. Pandemic 2020: Look Back in Anger
5. What a disaster negative rates of interest would be for the economy
6. Deflation: that sinking feeling
7. Why we need economists on expert committees
8. Central Banks and their role in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and the 2020 Global Economic Crisis
9. Imagine that there was a Reverse Income Tax
10. MMT mistake 1: Cause of inflation and hyperinflation
11. MMT mistake 2: The quantity and role of money
12. MMT mistake 3: The rate of interest
13. MMT mistake 4: The Job Guarantee
14. Free market capitalism: it`s their future
15. Debt fuelled crises are always caused by governments never ever by private debt
16. A critique of The Quantity Theory of Credit
17. Quantity theory of money for Keynesians
18. Brexit and beyond
19. Brexit: the hard facts, soft facts and myths
20. Brexit: should we?
21. Fluctuations in economic activity: only one cause
22. The four fallacies of the coming economic apocalypse
23. Current account deficit on the balance of payments: the most damning statistic
24. The vital difference between capital adequacy and liquidity
25. Money, Money Supply, Money Creation and Monetary Demand.
26. Interventionist v less interventionist schools of economic thought
27. Sad day when I have to say I told you so
28. Great news from the FOMC but….
29. The many meanings of liquidity
30. The best way to complete monetary reform with maximum impact and minimum change
31. Professor A W Phillips would turn in his grave if he knew how Keynesians had corrupted his curve
32. Capitalism: is it worth fighting for?
33. A reappraisal of interest rates and market interest rates
34. The mystery of exchange rate determination solved
35. China is only the trigger…
36. Unwinding the euro
37. Decades of mistakes: what the Bank of England got wrong in the 1920s,1970s, 1980`s, 2000`s…..?
38. Government spending does not cause the economy to grow
39. Which is the best measure of inflation and changes in the value of money?
40. Accounting identities cannot be violated: the budget and the balance of payments
41. Equality and inequality: a non-conforming economist`s view
42. A balanced budget: goodbye fiscal policy
43. Understanding monetarism
44. Keynes was a monetarist
45. Deflation: an abject failure of the Bank of England`s policy
46. Understanding and misunderstanding QE
47. An imaginary meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee
48. The bubble will burst (just don`t ask me when?)
49. Understanding monetary policy: a synthesis of the old and the new
50. Are demand management policies the solution or a mass delusion?
51. The cause of the Eurozone/EU/Worldwide continuing crisis
52. Austerity or profligacy in government finances?
53. A fiscal stimulus (written after the 2009 G20 meeting)
54. What really happened in the seventies?
55. Look for the ticking time bomb in the budget
56. A mistaken estimate of what QE can do (letter to the FT 30/3/2015)