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Dandelion Salad
April 2, 2023
with Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader Radio Hour on Apr 1, 2023
We are joined for the full hour by geopolitical financial expert and financial historian, Nomi Prins, to discuss her new book, Permanent Distortion: How Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever, which highlights the huge gap between the high-flying stock market, versus back down here on earth, where average people struggle to make ends meet.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 1, 2023
Geopolitical Economy Report on Mar 25, 2023
Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss the US banking crisis in this episode of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour.
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Dandelion Salad
March 26, 2023
with Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader Radio Hour on Mar 25, 2023
Ralph welcomes economist, attorney, and investigative journalist, James Henry for his expert take on what is going on in the banking system and what we can do to keep it from blowing up. And Professor and former Nader’s Raider, Alison Dundes Renteln, takes on the commercialization of our universities in her book The Ethical University: Transforming Higher Education.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
March 23, 2023
Overview: This was an impromptu conversation precipitated by former Congressman Dennis Kucinich to have a deep dive discussion with a former economic advisor, Michael Hudson, on the shockingly large recent bank collapses. As the former chair of the powerful Government Oversight Subcommittee, Kucinich had a ringside seat in unraveling the bank collapses after the housing bubble burst. He confronted the players in the field with withering questions in Congressional hearings. Now Kucinich wanted important feedback from a banking insider on how this crisis was different than the one in 2008.
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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page, Mar. 20, 2023
March 22, 2023
Once again, government socialism – ultimately backed by taxpayers – is saving reckless midsized banks and their depositors. Silicon Valley Bank (S.V.B) and Signature Bank in New York greedily mismanaged their risk levels and had to be closed down. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), in return, to avoid a bank panic and a run on other midsized banks went over its $250,000 insurance cap per account and guaranteed all deposits – no matter how large, which are owned by the rich and corporations – in those banks.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
March 16, 2023
Geopolitical Economy Report on Mar 14, 2023
Economist Michael Hudson analyzes the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate, and Signature Bank, explaining the similarities to the 2008 financial crash.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
February 28, 2023
Geopolitical Economy Report on Feb 24, 2023
Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain the end of the British empire’s sterling area with the rise of the US dollar system, its central role in imperialism, and why it ultimately failed to accomplish Washington’s hegemonic goals.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
February 20, 2023
Geopolitical Economy Report on Feb 10, 2023
Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain the relations between money and debt, their role in imperialism, and the rise of the US dollar system.
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by Scott Scheffer
Struggle ★ La Lucha
February 11, 2023
In January, tech companies laid off 97,020 workers, more than double the layoffs in the first month of last year.
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google were responsible for most of the January cuts – 18,000, 10,000, and 12,000, respectively.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
February 6, 2023
Geopolitical Economy Report on Jan 27, 2023
In this episode of Geopolitical Economy Hour, economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss inflation: what it is, what causes it, and what are the problems in how the Federal Reserve and other central banks respond to it.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
January 25, 2023
Geopolitical Economy Report on Jan 13, 2023
Introducing Geopolitical Economy Hour: This is the first episode of a show being hosted every two weeks by economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson. They present the program and discuss the rise of the multipolar world and decline of US hegemony.
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by Pete Dolack
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Systemic Disorder, Jan. 5, 2023
January 7, 2023
Wishing for central banks to act in the interest of working people rather than the financial industry is about as fruitful as hoping a starving wolf won’t eat the chicken that was just placed next to it. Pigs will fly, the Amazon will freeze over and Wall Street will give all its money away before a central bank in the capitalist core goes against its raison d’être.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
December 6, 2022
Questions from Almayadeen TV, Lebanon by Mohammad Itmaizeh
1: In light of the conditions that Europe is experiencing, in terms of high energy prices and the repercussions on the industrial sector, like the closure of factories and the high cost of production. In your opinion do European countries have the capacity and resources to prevent industrial investments from “escaping”? Especially since the US plans in general to restore industry to its lands, thus, it may represent an opportunity to lure European industries to move to there and take advantage of cheap energy prices. This shift will have wide repercussions on Europe’s productive capacities and competitiveness, as well as on its trade balance. So, what happens to the position of Europe in the global economic system? Will it remain part of the capitalist center or deviate from it?
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Dec 2, 2022
Chris Hedges speaks with the economist Richard Wolff about inflation, growing income inequality and the looming disasters built into the U.S. economic system.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
October 17, 2022
Some follow up comments to my appearance on the Ralph Nader show.
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