On finance, real estate and the powers of neoliberalism
Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff dissect the United States’ new National Security Strategy, arguing that America’s pursuit of security through global control is accelerating de dollarisation, fragmenting Europe, and exposing the contradictions of finance capitalism in a multipolar world.
Zohran Mamdani’s New York victory lands as a national warning shot: young voters abandoning establishment Democrats, donor politics exposed, and a new fault line opening around oligarchy, war, and party control. Hudson and Wolff argue the backlash is less about policy details than power, with municipal socialism becoming a staging ground for wider battles over money in politics, empire decline, and what a credible alternative must deliver.
Europe’s economic crisis is increasingly driven by political decisions rather than market forces. This analysis examines EU energy policy, frozen Russian assets, deindustrialisation, and growing dependence on the United States, with insights from economists Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff on why Europe’s current trajectory is economically unsustainable.
An analysis of why the so-called US–NATO ceasefire proposal functions as a political narrative rather than a genuine peace initiative. Michael Hudson argues the plan is designed to shape public opinion, manage blame, and secure postwar leverage over assets, accountability, and history, rather than to end the war in Ukraine.
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Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff unpack Trump’s 35b dollar Central Asia push, Chevron’s ecocide, BRICS vs G7 and AI fake videos stealing their work.
Neoliberal shock therapy in Central Asia replaced public credit and social rights with a creditor-centred order that financialised land and resources, entrenched kleptocracy, and exported value abroad.
Wolff and Hudson argue Mamdani’s New York win exposes a donor-driven party system, heightens US Zionism fault lines, and collides with Trump’s debt squeeze, risking fiscal crises and political backlash.
Michael Hudson argues that EU leaders are driving deindustrialisation via asset seizures, a tech war with China and manufactured threat inflation, shifting Europe from social democracy to finance-led militarism.
China offers optics, not concessions, as Asia builds trade independence while U.S. policy serves rentiers over real industry.
If Washington and Brussels can seize sovereign reserves, what wealth is safe in Western custody? Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff unpack the gold surge, why BRICS needs a clearing union more than a new currency, and how tariffs, sanctions, and asset inflation push the world toward rupture. Clean-slate scenarios and bank risk included.
Neoliberalism blurred the line between output and overhead. In this conversation, Michael Hudson shows how land, monopoly, and financial incomes were reclassified as “growth,” why that distorts GDP, and how it fed deindustrialization. We also examine China’s engineer-led industrial policy and outline a credible post-neoliberal strategy: tax rent, treat essentials as utilities, and lower systemic costs for real producers.
The economists link election meddling, social media control and BRICS resilience—arguing U.S. hegemony now runs on narrative and coercion.
Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff debate whether U.S. overreach ends in negotiation or catastrophe, from nuclear risk, multipolar realignment, class war at home, oil and dollar strategy, China’s price edge, and what comes next.
Trump tells Fox “make people love Israel again.” Michael Hudson argues Gaza is NATO’s war and the real fight is the “ninth front”: control of the narrative—platforms, algorithms, donors, and universities. Richard Wolff reads a broader political turn: Israel losing hearts and minds, Europe recognizing Palestine, and U.S. empire overreach. Together they trace money, media, and power—AIPAC, Silicon Valley, campus repression, and what comes next.
Michael Hudson on the balance-of-payments illusion: how military outlays, foreign aid, and transfer pricing let the U.S. earn without paying—under dollar hegemony.
