Michael Hudson

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Nov 13 2023 with Steve Keen Pod version Published Nov 24 How Finance Capitalism Ruined the World – Dr. Michael Hudson & Dr. Steve Keen Dr. Michael Hudson is an American economist, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, former Wall Street Continue Reading The post Economists as Hired Guns first appeared on Michael Hudson.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]  GLENN DIESEN: Welcome to today’s program. My name is Glenn Diesen. I’m a professor at the University of Southeastern Norway. With me is my colleague Alexander Mercouris from the very informative and popular Duran. The guest today is none other than the excellent Michael Hudson, a very renowned economist. He’s written brilliant books, which Continue Reading The post Understanding America’s Post-Industrial Economy first...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]WAR Against NATO Not Russia | China vs. USA | BRICS | Michael Hudson Dialogue works (Nima): We look at this war in Ukraine, it’s been 18 months in this war in Ukraine and Ukraine got devastated by this war. What was the endgame for the U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine? Michael Hudson: Well, it Continue Reading The post The EU’s Desperate Need for a New Economic Framework first appeared on Michael Hudson.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]If the prophets of ancient Israel such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Malachi and Amos were alive today, Benjamin Netanyahu would accuse them of anti-Semitism for daring to describe his government as a travesty of what the Mosaic covenant was all about. A common thread running throughout the Jewish Bible – Christianity’s Old Testament – was Continue Reading The post Were the Biblical Prophets Anti-Semitic? first appeared on Michael...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Transcript BEN NORTON: Why does the United States so strongly support Israel? In this video today, I’m going to be explaining the geopolitical and economic reasons why Israel is such an important part of U.S. foreign policy and Washington’s attempt to dominate not only the region of the Middle East, but really the entire world. Continue Reading The post Israel as a Landed Aircraft Carrier first appeared on Michael Hudson.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]“Multipolarity: China, Russia, Israel, India, and the difficult birth of a new world,” Geopolitical Hour, October 19, 2021.   RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 17th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our time. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: And Continue Reading The post Multipolarity: China, Russia,...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]IMF showdown with China in Morocco, October 12, 2023 This year’s annual IMF/World Bank meetings in Morocco are the most explicitly confrontational yet by US/NATO diplomacy toward China and its fellow BRICS+ allies. It is not really rivalry, because US neoliberal financial policy is so different from the aims that the BRICS+ countries have been Continue Reading The post Twice as Important first appeared on Michael Hudson.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]This first week of October has seen U.S. interest rates soar to the 5% level on long-term Treasury bonds. That has made long-term Treasuries one of most attractive investment vehicles in the world, or even the most attractive. One obvious result is that countries aiming to dedollarize their central-bank reserves would make an untimely decision Continue Reading The post A BRICS+ Bank: How would it really function? first appeared on Michael Hudson.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Geopolitical Economy Hour, September 23, 2023.  BRICS or NATO? G20 or G77? Summits debate changing world order RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 17th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our times. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: And today we Continue Reading The post Reciprocal Ignorance: East-West first appeared on...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]On this episode of RT’s Going Underground, we speak to former Wall Street Financial Analyst Michael Hudson, author of ‘The Collapse of Antiquity’. He discusses the origins of debt stemming from the oligarchy-dominated Ancient Greek and Roman ‘democracies’, the tradition of debt cancellation, and how the Roman and Greek oligarchies marked a turning point in Continue Reading The post Financial Conquest So Insidious first...