The Hard Fist of American Imperialism

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Moderate Rebels Part 2 Super Imperialism, April 2020 TRANSCRIPT - HOW THE US MAKES COUNTRIES PAY FOR ITS WARS: ECONOMICS OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISM WITH MICHAEL HUDSON | MODERATE REBELS, 24 APRIL 2020 Economist Michael Hudson explains how American imperialism has created a global free lunch, where the US makes foreign countries pay for its wars, and even their ...

Another Giveaway

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TRANSCRIPT: US CORONAVIRUS 'BAILOUT' SCAM IS $6 TRILLION GIVEAWAY TO WALL ST - ECONOMIST MICHAEL HUDSON EXPLAINS 21 APRIL 2020 BY MODERATE REBELS Facing the Covid-19 pandemic, the US Congress rammed through the CARES Act — which economist Michael Hudson explains is not a “bailout” but a massive, $6 trillion giveaway to Wall Street, banks, large corporations, and stockholders.  Max ...

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An interview on Renegade Inc with Ross Ashcroft. Ross: Michael, really good to have you back on Renegade Inc. Michael Hudson: It's good to be here. Ross: Can you just give us a snapshot into what you're seeing in New York? I know that you're in quarantine at the moment. You're holed up in your ...

The Use and Abuse of MMT

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By Michael Hudson, with Dirk Bezemer, Steve Keen and T.Sabri Öncü Michael Hudson is a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City, and a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. His latest book is “and forgive them their debts”: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee ...

NPR, cov-19 and “America is strapped”.

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Radio interview, NPR, April 2, 2020 What is the next step to prop up the virus-battered United States economy, even as the $2 trillion stimulus package only begins to percolate out? Well, Republicans and Democrats have returned to talking about a massive infrastructure building program that would employ lots of people. That would be a post-COVID-19 ...