An interview on Meet the Renegades with Ross Ashcroft.
Cheering the Inequities
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.
Part Time Productivity
It's time for the Keiser Report!
Rentier Capitalism – Veblen in the 21st century
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 ...
Democracy’s Debt Ladder
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 ...
Review of James Galbraith, Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice (2016)
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 ...
