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...
Real Estate: Growth, Crash, or Soft Landing?
Speech at Wariton Valley Community College. Listen here
The New Road to Serfdom – An illustrated guide to the coming real estate collapse
Can be downloaded from here or from Harpers.
The $4.7 Trillion Pyramid: Why Social Security won't be enough to save Wall Street
Harpers Magazine, April 2005 They wanted something for nothing. I gave them nothing for something. – J.R. “Yellow Kid” Weil Social Security, formerly the “third rail” of American politics, has now been trod upon, in rather dramatic fashion, by George W. Bush. Given that the maneuver is both stupid and unnecessary, one must ask...
Poland, the Euro, and the Dollar's Double Standard
Published in Fakt (Warsaw) Poland’s vote to join the European Community has put an end to the centuries of military rivalries that have long devastated the nation and its neighbors. Entry into the EC makes future internecine wars unthinkable. That was the easy decision to make. Poland now must confront the financial issue dividing...
Saving, Asset-Price Inflation, and Debt-Induced Deflation
Post-Keynesian Conference Kansas City Summary The exponential growth of savings and debt takes the form mainly of loans to finance the purchase of real estate, stocks and bonds. These loans extract interest and amortization charges that divert revenue away from being spent on goods and services. The payment of debt service by the economy’s...
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...
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...
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...
Review in the German Journal Intervention
Rezensionen Michael Hudson (2003), Super Imperialism. The origin and Fundamentals of U. S. World Dominance, London (416 Seiten, broschiert, Pluto Press) »Der Dollar ist unser Geld, aber Euer Problem«, so wird die Einstellung der US-Regierung zur globalen Rolle der eigenen Währung gerne zitiert. Und tatsächlich scheint es so, als hätten vor allem die anderen...
The Mathematical Economics of Compound Rates of Interest: A Four-Thousand Year Overview Part I
“Whoever enters here must know mathematics.” That was the motto of Plato’s Academy. Emphasizing such abstract ratios as the Pythagorean proportions of musical temperament and the calendrical regularities of the sun, moon and planets, its philosophy used the mathematics of nature to reveal an underlying harmony and order in the universe and hence, in...
Will Europe suffer the Swiss Syndrome? What impact on the European and U.S. economies may diversification of central bank reserves into euros have?
International Economy Diversification of central bank reserves into larger holdings of euros is much in the news these days. Quite apart from the widening U.S. trade and payments deficit, the Iraq war has created a backlash that has led some Arab and Islamic politicians to urge OPEC countries to price and sell their oil...
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...
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...
The Coming Financial Reality
An Interview with Economist Michael Hudson for Counterpunch By STANDARD SCHAEFER The war in Iraq is allegedly over, interest rates are going lower and there are rumors of recovery although the economy is still in the doldrums. A Bush is president, but an election is around the corner. It sounds a bit like the...
Duck, Duck, Goose: Financing the War, Financing the World
By STANDARD SHAEFER (Interview with Michael Hudson, author of Super Imperialism, Pluto Press, 2003) Now that even the LA Times has begun to show a modicum of willingness to discuss US foreign policy in terms of a potential imperialism, it has become clear that those on the right have avoided this debate so far...
Review of Super Imperialism
in FTD – Financial Times Deutschland (German edition of FT) Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of US World Dominance Michael Hudson. Pluto Press 2003, 425 Seiten, 32 €, ISBN 074531989 Unser Dollar, euer Problem Wie ein Volkswirt die finanzielle Grundlage der amerikanischen Vorherrschaft erklärt Von Sebastian Dullien Wieder einmal starren Wirtschaftsprognostiker Gebannt auf...
Press release: Super Imperialism
How America will get Europe to finance its 2002-03 Oil War with Iraq In the 1991 Gulf War, America got its allies to bear most of the costs voluntarily. After all, U.S. diplomats asked, wasn’t the war fought to protect Kuwait and the next petro-domino, Saudi Arabia, from Iraqi attack – and in the...
Railway Financing and the Shape of China’s Future: Some Lessons from American Economic History
Report for the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation “Is it British wealth we want when we desire to develop our resources or build railroads? No, we do not need the wealth, for at this moment we are the richest nation on the face of the globe. We need the money.” – John Brown, Parasitic Wealth, or...
Books by Michael Hudson
