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Michael Hudson — Life & Thought: An Autobiography

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This interview was conducted at Peking University for the Second World Conference on Marxism, May 7, 2018. It was conducted by Lau Kin Chi of the Global University for Sustainability.... Michael Hudson inherited impeccable Marxist credentials. When I was 3 years old my father was put in jail under the Smith Act as a political prisoner for having the works of Lenin and Marx on his shelves and for being one of the leaders of the Minneapolis general strikes from 1934 to 1936. So I grew up knowing many members of the Russian Revolution, members of the Central Committee when Lenin was in power.... In 1960 when Leon Trotsky’s widow Natalia died, the executor of his estate Max Schachtman assigned me the copyrights, saying that since I was Trotsky’s godson, I should do a publishing company....

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This interview was conducted at Peking University for the Second World Conference on Marxism, May 7, 2018. It was conducted by Lau Kin Chi of the Global University for Sustainability....
Michael Hudson inherited impeccable Marxist credentials.
When I was 3 years old my father was put in jail under the Smith Act as a political prisoner for having the works of Lenin and Marx on his shelves and for being one of the leaders of the Minneapolis general strikes from 1934 to 1936. So I grew up knowing many members of the Russian Revolution, members of the Central Committee when Lenin was in power....
In 1960 when Leon Trotsky’s widow Natalia died, the executor of his estate Max Schachtman assigned me the copyrights, saying that since I was Trotsky’s godson, I should do a publishing company....
Good read, even if you are not a fan. It's pretty funny to hear him tell the tales of what shaped him as an economist and historian of economics. Quite remarkable, actually.

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Life & Thought: An Autobiography
Michael Hudson | President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and Guest Professor at Peking University
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Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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