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 own military occupation. Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the economics of Washington’s empire, the role of the IMF and World Bank, attempts to create alternative financial systems like BRICS, and the new cold war on China and Russia. PART 2 OF 2 (Interview recorded on April 13, 2020) Part 1: “US coronavirus ‘bailout’ scam is $6 trillion giveaway to Wall St – Economist Michael Hudson explains” MICHAEL HUDSON: The World Bank has one primary aim, and that’s to ...

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 Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the enormous financial scam with Hudson, who reveals how the economy actually works, with the Federal Reserve printing money so rich elites don’t lose their investments.  Michael Hudson, “A debt jubilee is the only way to avoid a depression,” The Washington Post, March 21, 2020 Transcript MICHAEL HUDSON: Just think of when, in the debates with Bernie Sanders during the spring, Biden and Klobuchar kept saying, ‘What we’re paying for Medicare-for-All will be ...

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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 bunker. Just give us an idea of what it's like over there. Michael Hudson: Well, I'm in the epicentre of the epicentre, according to the governor of New York, I'm in Queens, in Forest Hills, right next to Elmhurst, where on television they're showing lines eight hours long in the rain of people trying to get tested for Corona virus in the Elmhurst public hospital. It's a disaster area there. They show the refrigerator truck ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnHJBUczgE0 Radical Imagination | Imagining How the World of Finance Really Works Host Jim Vrettos interviews Professor Michael Hudson, Economist, Wall St. Analyst, Political Consultant, Commentator and Journalist; who offers his views in the way finance works and Welcome, welcome once again to the Radical imagination. I'm your host, Jim Vrettos. I'm a sociologist who's talked at John Jay College of Criminal justice and Yeshiva university here in New York. Our guest today, on the Radical Imagination, is one of only eight economists named by the financial times who foresaw the credit crisis and ensuing great recession erupting in 2008. It was conventional wisdom at the time to say that no one saw the gravity of the crisis coming, including almost every leading economist and financier in the world. In fact, many had ...