Michael Hudson

The U.S. aim is to keep them from trading with China and Russia The Iron Curtain of the 1940s and ‘50s was ostensibly designed to isolate Russia from Western Europe – to keep out Communist ideology and military penetration. Today’s sanctions regime is aimed inward, to prevent America’s NATO and other Western allies from opening up more trade and investment with Russia and China. The aim is not so much to isolate Russia and China as to hold these allies firmly within...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A talk to the Centre for Global Justice. Photo by Sanaan Mazhar from Pexels The post The Blueprint to the US Empire first appeared on Michael Hudson.

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Cross-posted from The Saker, who writes: Intro: I need to begin with a MAJOR caveat and tell you how/why this “interview” happened. I did not plan to interview Michael Hudson. I was listening to a well known Russian economist, Mikhail Khazin, and I was fascinated by what he was saying. I also understood only some of the points he was making. To put it mildly, I am not an economist, and while listening to Khazin did did not take any notes. What I did do is email Michael and...

Watch to a high level discussion with the IMF’s FAD group on our paper Post-Corona Balanced-Budget Super-Stimulus: The Case for Shifting Taxes onto Land with Michal Kumhof, Nicolaus Tideman, Charles Goodall and myself. Enjoy this rich policy detail. Photo by Yunus Tuğ from Pexels

[unable to retrieve full-text content]On Super Imperialism and acts of (financial) warfare. Photo by Umanoide on Unsplash The post Wrestling with Jesse Ventura first appeared on Michael Hudson.

Economist Michael Hudson explains inflation crisis and Fed’s secretive $4.5 trillion bank bailout. Economist Michael Hudson discusses the global inflation crisis and how the US Federal Reserve quietly (and apparently illegally) bailed out big banks in 2019 with $4.5 trillion of emergency repo loans. TRANSCRIPTBENJAMIN NORTON: Hey, everyone. This is Ben Norton, and I’m joined by a friend of the show, one of our favorite guests, Michael Hudson, the economist. His reputation...

We’re told that debt forgiveness is impossible, because all debts must be paid, and to do the opposite is to invite anarchy and chaos. But what if none of it was true? Renowned economist Michael Hudson tells Branko Marcetic on New Zealand’s 1/200 podcast about the debt jubilees of the ancient world, how Jesus preached debt forgiveness, and how the finance sector has become a parasite feeding off the productive parts of the economy. Transcript Okay, welcome everyone to...

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Part 2 to our Max Keiser interview. Photo by Gije Cho from Pexels The post The Danger of Foreign Denominated Debt first appeared on Michael Hudson.