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Hudson is in form on KPFK today with Alan Minsky. 17 minutes - worth doing the dishes to.
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Hudson on the odious nature of debts encouraged by the banksters but repaid by the people through austerity.
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Michael discusses how democracy has been subverted.
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President Putin, now Prime Minister Putin, has said that the demographic effect of just privatizing Russian real estate, and industry and following western advice has lost maybe 30 million Russians from what the normal demographic growth would be to 2050. So the effect of neo-liberal financial policy has been more devastating to Russia than...
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Michael Hudson on Bonnie Faulkner’s Guns & Butter. Listen Here Guns and Butter: “Debt Deflation in Europe and America” Edited Interview by Bonnie Faulkner with Michael Hudson, September 2, 2011 (first aired on Pacifica, September 14, 2011). “Without consumption, markets are going to shrink. Companies won’t invest, stores will close, “for rent” signs will...
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During the the Global Policy Forum (Russia), Jeffrey Sommers and Michael Hudson discussed the future of the EU with Bloomberg columnist Matthew Lynn.
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Michael is in Russia on tour. More soon.
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We missed this one from nearly two months ago, an interview with Michael on RT News regarding the next round of banking bailouts. Why does America have a budget deficit?
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Max Keiser probes Michael on the framing of today’s political thinking.
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Real Estate 4 Ransom is a new documentary on the role economic policy plays in influencing property prices. The resultant busts that have followed the speculative frenzy are a scary reminder that systematic reforms are essential. Michael Hudson features. www.realestate4ransom.com
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Michael on the Keiser Report, discussing the role of finance in the EU debt crisis. How does Wall St and the IMF fit into the picture? Michael comes on at the 14 minute mark. Download the Hudson only portion of the interview
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Michael Hudson critiques austerity measures amidst the global preference for crumbling economies over taxing privilege. Ratings Agencies, German banks and user pays come under the microscope.
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Professor Hudson was recently in Norway and interviewed on NRK. Take your pick, the first file has the Norwegian edited out, so excuse a few jumps in topic. The second is the full podcast. Listen (3 mins) Listen to the Norwegian version (34 mins)
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There is an alternative, of course. It is for creditors at the top of the economic pyramid to take a loss. That would restore the intensifying GINI income and wealth coefficients back to their lower levels of a decade or two ago.
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Michael is interviewed on the Real News Network. History teaches…
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The “Latvian option” is the buzzword of the moment among European bankers and financial journalists. In October, the Latvian people voted in a coalition headed by the incumbent prime minister Valdis Dombrovskis, whose government had savaged social benefits, cut pay and inflated unemployment in 2009. Was this proof that austerity measures could not only...
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