Michael Hudson: Firing Alan Greenspan

by Michael Hudson
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://michael-hudson.com
May 10, 2012

During the interview for the documentary Real Estate 4 Ransom, Prof Michael Hudson discusses Greenspan’s reputation in his formative days on Wall St, discussing a controversial 1966 incident.

by Real Estate 4 Ransom

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Michael Hudson: What Americans can Learn from Eurocrisis + Transcript

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by Michael Hudson
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://michael-hudson.com
May 10, 2012

May 10, 2012 by TheRealNews

Michael Hudson: From the Democratic Party to European “Socialists”, they manage crisis in the interests of finance

Michael Hudson: Economic collapse in the Western nations + Crime has been Decriminalized

with Michael Hudson
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://michael-hudson.com
January 28, 2012

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See Dr. Hudson with Max Keiser in On the Edge as they sift through the latest issues including the EU, Ron Paul, Austrian economics, Iran and the role of the US dollar.

PressTVGlobalNews on Jan 28, 2012

In this edition of the show Max interviews the author Michael Hudson from Michael-Hudson.com

In this episode Max talks to Michael about the economic collapse in the Western nations and how this collapse gap thesis applies to the European economies currently experiencing a huge crisis.

Trade Theory Financialized by Michael Hudson

by Michael Hudson
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://michael-hudson.com
October 26, 2011

Trade and Payments Theory in a Financialized Economy

by Michael Hudson (UMKC)
Paper delivered at the Boeckler Foundation meetings, Berlin, October 29, 2011, #D3.

Summary

Ricardian trade theory was based on the cost of labor at a time when grain and other consumer goods accounted for most subsistence spending. But today’s budgets are dominated by payments to the finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sector, and to newly privatized monopolies. This has made FIRE the determining factor in trade competitiveness.

Michael Hudson: Banks are crime-gangs! + Obama’s Good Cop/Bad Cop deal with the Republicans

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with Michael Hudson
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
October 10, 2011

TheRealNews on Oct 6, 2011

Michael Hudson: A public option in banking will be a structural answer to the power of finance

Michael Hudson: Debt Deflation in Europe and America + Euro SOS

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with Prof. Michael Hudson
Bonnie Faulkner
Guns and Butter
September 14, 2011

European banking crisis causing a constitutional crisis of the European Central Bank; Germany; the myth of Social Security in the US.; bank balance sheet crisis; food, fuel and climate crisis; the super congress; debt deflation; FHA lawsuit against the banks; criminalization the financial sector; Modern Monetary Theory; the coming lost decade; debt cancellation.

Financial Meltdown: The Case Against the Ratings Agencies by Michael Hudson

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by Prof. Michael Hudson
Global Research
http://michael-hudson.com/
August 20, 2011

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In today’s looming confrontation the ratings agencies are playing the political role of “enforcer” as the gatekeepers to credit, to put pressure on Iceland, Greece and even the United States to pursue creditor-oriented policies that lead inevitably to financial crises. These crises in turn force debtor governments to sell off their assets under distress conditions. In pursuing this guard-dog service to the world’s bankers, the ratings agencies are escalating a political strategy they have long been refined over a generation in the corrupt arena of local U.S. politics.

Michael Hudson: Obama is a Republican

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PressTVGlobalNews on Aug 20, 2011

In this edition of On the Edge, Max Keiser interviews Michael Hudson from Michael-Hudson.com

He talks about the US economy and debt crisis as we approach the 2012 presidential elections.

The Debt Ceiling Set For Progressive Repealing by Michael Hudson

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by Prof. Michael Hudson
Global Research
July 29, 2011

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Mr. Obama’s scare tactics to get Democrats to vote for his Republican Wall Street plan

The Wall Street bailout melodrama should be viewed as a dress rehearsal for today’s debt-ceiling non-crisis.

You know that the debt kerfuffle is as melodramatically staged as a World Wrestling Federation exhibition when Mr. Obama makes the blatantly empty threat that if Congress does not “tackle the tough challenges of entitlement and tax reform,” there won’t be money to pay Social Security checks next month.

Michael Hudson: GOP Cries Wolf on Debt Ceiling In Order To Impose Radical Pro-Rich Agenda

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democracynow on Jul 22, 2011

President Obama and Republican House speaker John Boehner are allegedly close to a $3 trillion deficit-reduction package as part of a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling before an Aug. 2 deadline. But the deal is coming under fire from both Congressional Democrats and Republicans — part of it calls for lowering personal and corporate income tax rates, while eliminating or reducing an array of popular tax breaks, such as the deduction for home mortgage interest.

Michael Hudson: Guns, Finance and Butter – Finance Is the New Mode of Warfare

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Updated: July 16, 2011; added transcript

with Michael Hudson
Bonnie Faulkner
Guns and Butter
July 13, 2011

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The jobless recovery; the debt ceiling and default; China; Greece; banks, not countries, receive the bailouts; financial warfare; IMF and EU; European Central Bank; US credit default swaps; US agricultural exports create food dependency; currency devaluation devalues the price of labor; class war of banks against the rest of society

Michael Hudson: Greece a Dress Rehearsal for United States

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TheRealNews on Jul 10, 2011

Michael Hudson: Cuts to Social Security and Medicare and privatization at the state level mirror strategy imposed on Greece

Michael Hudson: Debt Ceiling Charade a Move to the Right + Sanders: Hands Off Social Security

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Jul 8, 2011 by TheRealNews

Michael Hudson: Panic about debt ceiling used to attack social programs; no real need for more borrowing

Keiser Report: Michael Hudson: IMF Assassins to destroy Greek economy

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RussiaToday on Jul 7, 2011

This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on selling Greece’s sovereignty and Spain’s El Gordo. In the second half of the show, Max talks to economist Michael Hudson about the IMF assassins sent in to destroy the Greek economy.

How a $13 Trillion Cover Story was Written by Michael Hudson

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by Prof. Michael Hudson
www.informationclearinghouse.info
http://michael-hudson.com
June 17, 2011

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Free money creation to bail out America’s elite financial speculators, but not for Social Security or Medicare

Only the “Crazies” Get the Bank Giveaway Right

Financial crashes were well understood for a hundred years after they became a normal financial phenomenon in the mid-19th century. Much like the buildup of plaque deposits in human veins and arteries, an accumulation of debt gained momentum exponentially until the economy crashed, wiping out bad debts – along with savings on the other side of the balance sheet.