Michael Hudson: Iceland Recovering From Neoliberal Disaster

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Interview with Michael Hudson
Bonnie Faulkner
Guns and Butter
August 19, 2009

“Iceland Recovering From Neoliberal Disaster” with Dr. Michael Hudson on Iceland’s banking crisis and foreign debt; it’s decision to push back against IMF and World Bank austerity; Gordon Brown’s role in the Icesave scandal; the capacity to pay principle; similarities with Germany’s foreign debt reparations from the 1920s; European Union disarray; media omissions.

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see also:

CorpWatch : What is Neoliberalism?

see

Recovering from Neoliberal Disaster: Why Iceland and Latvia Won’t (and Can’t) Pay the EU for the Kleptocrats’ Ripoffs by Prof. Michael Hudson

Renegade Economist US Special with Dr. Michael Hudson