Michael Hudson and Ellen Brown: Avoiding The Road To Serfdom

Swimming With the Debt Sharks

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by Michael Hudson, with Ellen Brown
Writers, Dandelion Salad
Michael Hudson, Jan. 28, 2018
The Web of Debt Blog
February 10, 2018

I appeared alongside Ellen Brown on Princetown Community Television in two parts. Enjoy!

Princeton Community Television on January 16, 2018

Part 1 of a conversation with economist Michael Hudson, author of J is for Junk Economics and Ellen Brown, founder of the Public Banking Institute and author of Web of Debt.

Part 2

Princeton Community Television on January 25, 2018


Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of J is for Junk Economics (2017), Killing the Host (2015), The Bubble and Beyond (2012), Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1968 & 2003), Trade, Development and Foreign Debt: A History of Theories of Polarization v. Convergence in the World Economy (1992 & 2009) and of The Myth of Aid (1971), amongst many others.  He can be reached via his website, mh@michael-hudson.com.


Ellen Brown is an attorney, founder of the Public Banking Institute, and author of twelve books including the best-selling Web of Debt. Her latest book, The Public Bank Solution, explores successful public banking models historically and globally. Her 300+ blog articles are at EllenBrown.com. Listen to “It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown” on PRN.FM.

From the archives:

David Harvey: What is Neoliberalism? + Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason

Michael Hudson: Corporations Are Taking The Money and Running + Transcript

If China Can Fund Infrastructure With Its Own Credit, So Can We by Ellen Brown

A Basic Income Is Less Than Meets The Eye by Pete Dolack

Which Is Safer, a Public Bank or a Private Bank? by Ellen Brown + The Savings and Stability of Public Banking by Ralph Nader

How Bankers Became the Top Exploiters of the Economy by Michael Hudson

Richard D. Wolff: What is Capitalism and Socialism? What is Money? What is Debt Jubilee?

Ellen Brown: Banks Can Take Your Money In A Crisis