An interview by Karl Fitzgerald, Renegade Economists podcasts. Bailout for McCain
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Interviews
Bailout for McCain
The Worsening U.S. Debt Crisis
An interview with Economist Michael Hudson, by Mike Whitney Global Research. Mike Whitney: On Friday afternoon the government announced plans to place the two mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, under “conservatorship.” Shareholders will be virtually wiped out (their stock already had plunged by over 90 per cent) but the US Treasury will...
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A Black Agenda Report: The Fictitious Economy, Part 2
Transcript of a A Guns And Butter Interview by Bonnie Faulkner originally broadcast on KPFA radio. In the second half of an hour long interview with economist Dr. Michael Hudson broadcast on Guns And Butter June 25, 2008, Dr. Hudson explains some of the factors in the price of oil that are seldom discussed...
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Getting to the Heart of America’s Economic Crisis
A Counterpunch interview by Mike Whitney Mike Whitney: Before John Kennedy took office, anyone making an income of over $200,000 was taxed at a rate of 93 per cent. Corporations also paid a much higher percentage of the total tax burden than they do today. The higher tax rates on the wealthy never hurt...
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A Black Agenda Report, The Fictitious Economy, Part 1
A Black Agenda Report Transcript of a Guns And Butter Radio Interview by Bonnie Faulkner originally broadcast on KPFA radio. There is a rising sense of alarm in the United States, as tangible effects of the economic crisis of empire are unmistakably apparent at every hand. Ordinary people are burdened by debt as never...
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The Game is over: There Won’t be a Rebound
An Interview by Mike Whitney with Michael Hudson on the Economy – Counterpunch 1–Fed chairman Bernanke has been on a spree lately, delivering three speeches in the last two weeks. Every chance he gets, he talks tough about the strong dollar and “holding the line” against inflation. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson even said that...
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FIRE Economy in Crisis
This is an iTulip A link to the iTulip forum can be found here. PDF Part I PDF Part II
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Debtor Nation: The Hijacking of Americas Economy
Debtor Nation: The Hijacking of Americas Economy (pdf), in Acres , January 2008, Vol. 38, No.1
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Credit, Debt, Cancellation of Debt – Since Antiquity
Radio interview, Lapham’s The World in Time on Bloomberg. Listen here.
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History of Debt and Credit
Debt cancellation. History of Debt and Credit, Bloomberg radio with Lewis Lapham, Laphams Quarterly.
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History of Debt and Credit
Bloomberg radio with Lewis Lapham, Laphams Quarterly. Listen here
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Scamming Social Security
Susan Weissman interviews Michael Hudson Susan Weissman, an editor of Against the Current, interviewed author Michael Hudson this past April on her program “Beneath the Surface” on radio station KPFK, Pacifica in Los Angeles. Many thanks to Walter Tanner for transcribing. The following is an abridged and edited text of the interview. SUSAN WEISSMAN:...
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The Plot to Shift Taxes Off Wealth onto Wage Earners
Guns and Butter, KPFA. “AAA rating of subprime junk; inflation; change in world order; privatization of banking system through the Federal Reserve; Alan Greenspan and the 1982 Social Security Committee; junk economics; windfall profits; the law of fraudulent conveyance.” Listen here
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FIRE economy, the dollar, asset inflation and deflation, and the economic growth ratchet
iTulip Interview Eric Janszen interviews Dr. Michael Hudson on the FIRE economy, the dollar, asset inflation and deflation, and the economic growth ratchet. Part I (Flash format) Part II (Flash format)
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America: Host or Parasite?
America: Host or Parasite? in Guns and Butter, KPFA “We discuss the US balance of payments trade deficit which creates US credit to finance the US national debt and war abroad; Russian economic shock therapy as the final stage of the cold war; the real estate bubble; permanent war and the inevitable collapse of...
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Russia: Reforming the Reformers
an Interview with Michael Hudson for Counterpunch By STANDARD SCHAEFER On Sunday, March 14, Russians will re-elect Vladimir Putin for a second term as president. In the Duma elections three months earlier, on December 7, his United Russia party won such overwhelming support that he will have the power to rewrite the constitution dictated...
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An Insider Spills the Beans on Offshore Banking Centers
an Interview with Michael Hudson for Counterpunch. By STANDARD SCHAEFER The oil industry created the practice of countries (SHIPS?) flying “flags of convenience” as a means of avoiding income taxes nearly a century ago. Since the 1960s the U.S. Government itself has encouraged American banks to set up branches in Caribbean hot-money centers and...
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How Privatization Sterilizes Culture
an Interview with Michael Hudson for Counterpunch. By STANDARD SCHAEFER Since the 1980s computer technology has been promoted as democratizing leisure by lowering the production costs of knowledge and culture. Consumers were promised more free time, yet a quarter or even a third of family income for the low- and middle-income brackets now goes...
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Chile’s Failed Economic Laboratory
an Interview with Michael Hudson for Counterpunch By STANDARD SCHAEFER In acknowledging the recent thirtieth anniversary of the US-sponsored coup that brought to General Augosto Pinochet to power in Chile, a number of articles and opinion pieces have appeared. The Nation recently cast the incident in somewhat sentimental terms. Such efforts to turn Salvador...
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Tech Bubble: Who Benefited?
An Interview with Michael Hudson for Counterpunch By STANDARD SCHAEFER During the boom of the 1990s, neoliberal economists and the financial press promoted the the high tech revolution for its ability to reduce production costs. As long as government did not interfere with markets, technology would lead to an improvement in the quality of...
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Books by Michael Hudson
