On finance, real estate and the powers of neoliberalism
Michael Hudson on the Orwellian Turn in Contemporary Economics, TRNN, November 17, 2016. Economist Michael Hudson sits down with Sharmini Peries to talk about the elections and his new book J is for Junk Economics [Out January 20, 2017). SHARMINI PERIES, TRNN: It’s the Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore. Come January 20th ...
This is a transcript from Meet the Renegades with economist Michael Hudson and interviewer Ross Ashcroft. You can watch the full interview with Michael here. Michael Hudson: I’m Michael Hudson. I’m a professor of economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and Peking University. My focus is on the distinction between the financial economy and the ...
REAL VISION INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT: Featuring: Michael Hudson, Steve Keen Published date: 22nd of November 2016 Synopsis: With two renegade economists in one room in London for 90 minutes you can expect some pretty controversial opinions about the current economic establishment. This film has all the makings of a Real Vision classic, as Steve Keen interviews professor ...
Michael Hudson: Donald Trump Wants to Make the 1% Even Richer,” The Real News Network, November 18, 2016. Economist Michael Hudson explains how economic terms like capital gains are deployed to mislead the public about who is benefiting from economic policy and where wealth is going. SHARMINI PERIES, TRNN: Welcome back to the Real News Network. ...
Nov 21 2016 How Taxes Were Shifted off the Donald Trumps of the World and onto Homeowners, The Real News Network, November 21, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rhBdWojLe0 SHARMINI PERIES, TRNN: It’s the Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore. And we’re unpacking some economic mythologies here with Michael Hudson who joins us in our Baltimore studio. ...
It’s Time for the Clintons, Rubin to Go – and Soros too. In the week leading up to last Tuesday’s election the press was busy writing obituaries for the Republican Party. This continued even after Donald Trump’s “surprising” victory – which, like the 2008 bank-fraud crash, “nobody could have expected.” The pretense is that Trump saw ...
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Max Keiser probes for reason on the Trump win.
Part two of the wide-ranging interview on Meet the Renegades with Ross Ashcroft. How debt compounds growth and the system in place to ensure this continues, despite the historical teachings.
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An interview on Meet the Renegades with Ross Ashcroft.
Michael Hudson on the Renegade Economists radio show, discussing the power of the financial elite to sculpt tax laws right through to our very economic vocabulary. They do this so subtly that we cheer on the resultant inequities.
It's time for the Keiser Report!
In 2012 a conference was held on Thorstein Veblen in Istanbul. It was sponsored by a socialist labor union, the Chamber of Electrical Engineers. We were asked why not focus on Marx. My answer was that Marx had died a generation earlier, and the major critique of finance capitalism had passed to Veblen. This book ...
Economic 'Recovery' Feels Weak Because the Great Recession Hasn't Really Ended, The Real News Network, October 7, 2016. The IMF foretells of vulnerable banks in US and EU while enabling unsustainable debt-leveraging, says economist Michael Hudson. KIM BROWN, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Kim Brown, in Baltimore. With the worst of the great ...
Tim Evans Galbraith’s articles and interviews collected in this book (ending in October 2015) traces his growing exasperation at the “troika” – the European Central Bank (ECB), IMF and EU bureaucracy – which refused to loosen their demand that Greece impoverish its economy to a degree worse than the Great Depression. The fight against ...
by Paul Craig Roberts and Michael Hudson September 28, 2016 William Engdahl recently explained how Washington used the corrupt Brazilian elite, which answers to Washington, to remove the duly elected President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, for representing the Brazilian people rather than the interests of Washington. Unable to see through the propaganda of unproven charges, Brazilians ...
To paraphrase Mark Twain, everyone complains about inequality, but nobody does anything about it. What they do is to use “inequality” as a takeoff point to project their own views on how to make society more prosperous and at the same time more equal. These views largely depend on whether they view the One Percent as ...
