On finance, real estate and the powers of neoliberalism
With Ukraine in collapse, Trump redirects NATO toward fresh proxy wars. Michael Hudson outlines U.S. plans to pressure Russia through the Baltics, Syria, and Venezuela, while Richard Wolff highlights Europe’s subordination and economic decline. Together they warn that Washington’s empire is lashing out globally as China, India, and the BRICS build rising alternatives.
Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff argue the U.S. is sabotaging its own economy through reckless tax cuts, rising inequality, and dollar devaluation. As foreign investors flee and domestic wealth concentrates, the era of dollar hegemony may be ending — with global implications.
Donald Trump’s tariffs could destabilize the global economy, warns economist Michael Hudson. US protectionist policies could cause financial crises, as many currencies depreciate and countries can’t earn the dollars needed to pay their foreign debts. Hudson was interviewed by Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton. Video Podcast Transcript (Introduction) BEN NORTON: Donald Trump is threatening to impose tariffs on countries all ...
In a recent economic roundtable, economists Richard Wolff and Prof Michael Hudson analyzed the surprising factors behind Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory. Wolff attributed Trump’s win to a deep, growing resentment among the American working class, disillusioned by four decades of neoliberal globalization. This shift hollowed out U.S. manufacturing, devastated cities like Detroit, and stripped jobs from communities, creating a longing for a past economic stability that Trump’s rhetoric promises but fails to deliver. Wolff emphasized that Trump’s appeal lies in his symbolic stance as the “protector” of working people, contrasting sharply with the Democrats’ limited policy proposals.
Hudson added a political lens, arguing that Democrats knowingly chose policies they knew might fail with working-class voters, prioritizing loyalty to their Wall Street-aligned, neoliberal agenda over progressive, labor-focused alternatives. Both economists suggested that voters’ desire for substantial economic change led them to Trump—not as a true savior but as a rejection of the political status quo. Hudson further noted the systemic challenges third-party candidates like Jill Stein face, reflecting a political system that marginalizes alternative voices and limits meaningful change. Together, Wolff and Hudson reveal an American political landscape where economic frustration fuels a polarizing and performative political arena.
The Democrats’ Quandary To hear the candidates debate, you would think that their fight was over who could best beat Trump. But when Trump’s billionaire twin Mike Bloomberg throws a quarter-billion dollars into an ad campaign to bypass the candidates actually running for votes in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, it’s obvious that what really is ...
Does President Trump know anything about trade? Left Out, a podcast produced by Paul Sliker, Michael Palmieri, and Dante Dallavalle, creates in-depth conversations with the most interesting political thinkers, heterodox economists, and organizers on the Left. The Hudson Report is a new weekly series produced by Left Out with the legendary economist Michael Hudson. Every episode we cover an economic ...
Monopoly capitalism and models of resistance. This week, author Michael Hudson on Donald Trump's fake economics. It's all coming up on the Laura Flanders Show, the place where the people who say it can't be done take a back seat to the people who are doing it. Welcome. Infrastructure, we're going to start spending on infrastructure ...
Trump's Tariff Travesty Will Not Re-Industrialize the US, TRNN, March 15, 2018 SHARMINI PERIES: It's The Real News Network. I'm Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or known as the OECD, predicted on Tuesday that Trump's tariffs on aluminum and steel imports could initiate a wave of protectionism ...
Trump’s series of threats this week was a one-two punch. First, he threatened to impose national security tariffs on steel and aluminum, primarily against Canada and Mexico (along with Korea and Japan). Then, he suggested an alternative: He would exempt these countries IF they agree to certain U.S. demands. But these demands make so little economic ...
The Real News Network, February 13, 2018. SHARMINI PERIES: It's The Real News Network. I'm Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore. President Trump presented his infrastructure plan on Monday. The long-awaited plan proposes to spend $200 billion in federal funds over the next 10 years. This is to be complemented with another 1.3 trillion ...
Transcript “Trump's Tax Plan Helps Wall Street, Not Main Street,” TRNN, October 3, 2017. It should be called the Leona Helmsley tax plan,' says economist Michael Hudson. 'Only the little people will pay taxes'. S. Peries: It's the Real News Network. I'm Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore. A general consensus is emerging that Trump's tax plan, ...
August 4 2017, The Real News Network “Trump is Turning Against the White Working Class that Elected Him,” The Real News Network, August 4, 2017. Rising stock prices is not an indicator of financial health like Trump would have you believe, specially when you examine who is buying that stock, says economist Michael Hudson, the author of ...
As published in Harper's Magazine. Two years before the 2008 Wall Street crash that toppled the global economy into deep recession, Harper’s Magazine published a dark prophecy of what was to come. In “The New Road to Serfdom,” economist Michael Hudson laid out how millions of Americans had taken on huge debts to buy houses on ...
Trump and Kushner say that the government should be run like a business, but that would mean eliminating regulations and expenses that benefit the people says Michael Hudson. KIM BROWN: Welcome to The Real News Network in Baltimore. I'm Kim Brown. Donald Trump promised repeatedly to, "Drain the swamp," during his presidential campaign, his vow to end ...
Michael Hudson explains that the Senate hearings on Russia are an effort by Democrats to torpedo improvements in Russia-US relations and lack any real evidence of Russian meddling. KIM BROWN: Welcome to The Real News Network in Baltimore. I'm Kim Brown. On Thursday, the Senate ...
Trump is Obama’s Legacy. Will this Break up the Democratic Party? Nobody yet can tell whether Donald Trump is an agent of change with a specific policy in mind, or merely a catalyst heralding an as yet undetermined turning point. His first month in the White House saw him melting into the Republican mélange of corporate ...
SHARMINI PERIES: It's The Real News Network. I'm Sharmini Peries, coming to you from Baltimore. While protestors and police are clashing on the inaugural parade route in Washington, D.C., the newly sworn-in President of the United States is lunching with the establishment in Washington ...
