Michael Hudson: Inflation and Illegal Repo Loans

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with Michael Hudson
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January 13, 2022

Moderate Rebels on Jan 8, 2022

Economist Michael Hudson explains the inflation crisis and the Fed’s secretive $4.5 trillion bank bailout.

Economist Michael Hudson discusses the global inflation crisis and how the US Federal Reserve quietly (and apparently illegally) bailed out big banks in 2019 with $4.5 trillion of emergency repo loans.

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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 …and forgive them their debts (2018), 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 & 3rd Edition 2021), 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 Michael Hudson, mh@michael-hudson.com.

See also:

There’s a News Blackout on the Fed’s Naming of the Banks that Got Its Emergency Repo Loans; Some Journalists Appear to Be Under Gag Orders, by Pam Martens and Russ Martens

Biden over-delivered on military spending and under-delivered on social spending, by Stephen Semler

From the archives:

As Long as Capitalism Exists, The Threat of Fascism Exists, by Pete Dolack

Eugene Puryear: US in 2021: Crisis at Home, Chaos Warriors Abroad

Michael Hudson: Biden Between BlackRock and a Hard Place

Collapsing Federal Corporate Crime Enforcement, by Ralph Nader

How Banks Launder Money Through the Repo Market by Ellen Brown