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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Prof Michael Hudson on the balance of payments chaos unleashed by Trump. How will Mexico and Canada react? What can Europe do to position itself against the tide of rising prices? The post The Road to Chaos – A Global Balance of Payments War first appeared on Michael Hudson.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]  RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 36th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our world. I’m your host, Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: And working behind the scenes to bring you our show every fortnight are our host Ben Norton, Continue Reading The post The Secret of the Long March first appeared on Michael Hudson.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Trump has promoted a number of plans to make America strong – at other countries’ expense. Given his “we win; you lose” motto, some of his plans would produce the opposite effect of what he imagines. That would not be much of a change in U.S. policy. But I suggest that Hudson’s Law may be Continue Reading The post Weaponizing the US Dollar first appeared on Michael Hudson.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Prof Michael Hudson discusses with his Patreon supporters the issues of the day. We traverse through rentier commissions, Ponzi schemes, the isolation of Israel and America, The post Contesting the Corontation of the Rentier first appeared on Michael Hudson.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]This discussion highlights the structural challenges facing America’s economic and political system, emphasizing how vested interests manipulate markets, language, and policy to sustain inequality. The U.S. operates in a "stacked marketplace," favoring creditors and employers over wage earners, with little public debate or university-level economic critique. While populist narratives resonate, substantive solutions remain elusive. Richard Wolff...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]In a recent economic roundtable, economists Richard Wolff and Prof Michael Hudson analyzed the surprising factors behind Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory. Wolff attributed Trump’s win to a deep, growing resentment among the American working class, disillusioned by four decades of neoliberal globalization. This shift hollowed out U.S. manufacturing, devastated cities like Detroit, and stripped jobs from communities, creating a longing for a...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Nima, Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff, “Financial Colonialism,” Dialogue Works, August 1, 2024. “The Shocking Truth Behind the End of Financial Colonialism!” NIMA: Let’s start with the conflict right now in the Middle East. How do you find it right now? What’s going on, Michael, in your opinion, in the Middle East? MICHAEL HUDSON: I Continue Reading The post The End of Financial Colonialism first appeared on...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Recorded June 8, 2023 Karl Fitzgerald: Welcome everyone to another Patreon Q&A session. Great to have you here. And as always, we’re with Professor Michael Hudson, author of so many books, so many podcast interviews, you name it, he’s out there telling us what’s going on in the world and it’s great that we get Continue Reading The post Gold as the Peace Currency first appeared on Michael Hudson.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The July 4 landslide defeat of the neoliberal pro-war British Conservatives by the neoliberal pro-war Labour Party poses the question of just what the media mean when they describe the elections and political alignments throughout Europe in terms of center-right and center-left traditional parties challenged by nationalist neo-fascists. Political differences between Europe’s centrist parties are Continue Reading The post The Need for a New...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]US Cryptocurrency as an Offshore Banking Center 
The Wall Street Journal ran a revealing op-ed today (June 14, 2024) by Paul D. Ryan, “Crypto Could Stave off a U.S. Debt Crisis.”

Mr. Ryan, libertarian Republican House Speaker 2015-2019 and now at the right-wing American Enterprise Institute, writes that: “Stablecoins backed by dollars provide demand for U.S. Continue Reading The post Kleptocracy is Us first...