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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 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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“We have, after World War II, systematically destroyed the Left: Communists, Socialists, Marxists, Anarchists, Labor Union activists, all of it. It is logical and not a surprise that an angry American working class goes to the right, it looks to the right to give them the explanation.” — Richard Wolff
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
September 29, 2022
Ralph Nader Radio Hour on Sep 17, 2022
Ralph does a deep dive into the real purpose of the Federal Reserve and other aspects of the American economy with progressive economist, Michael Hudson.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
September 14, 2022
Multipolarista on Sep 8, 2022
Economist Michael Hudson discusses partial student debt relief in the US, inflation and the Fed, disaster capitalism in Ukraine, and China’s challenge to the petrodollar.
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by Liberation Staff
LiberationNews.org, Aug. 16, 2022
August 17, 2022
Joe Biden signed into law today the “Inflation Reduction Act” — a package of environmental, health care and tax measures that the administration is trumpeting as one of its crowning legislative achievements. But in reality, it represents a drop in the bucket compared to the scale of social crises workers are facing on multiple fronts.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
August 1, 2022
As in a Greek tragedy whose protagonist brings about precisely the fate that he has sought to avoid, the US/NATO confrontation with Russia in Ukraine is achieving just the opposite of America’s aim of preventing China, Russia and their allies from acting independently of U.S. control over their trade and investment policy. Naming China as America’s main long-term adversary, the Biden Administration’s plan was to split Russia away from China and then cripple China’s own military and economic viability. But the effect of American diplomacy has been to drive Russia and China together, joining with Iran, India and other allies. For the first time since the Bandung Conference of Non-Aligned Nations in 1955, a critical mass is able to be mutually self-sufficient to start the process of achieving independence from Dollar Diplomacy.
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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page, April 8, 2022
April 9, 2022
It is exceedingly rare for a major congressional committee to hold hearings on “corporate greed” leading to corporate profiteering and surging prices on consumer goods. On April 5, 2022, Senate Budget Chairman, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) chartered uncensored territory on corporate avarice with a lead witness, former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, now a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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with Chris Hedges
Originally on RT America on Feb 13, 2022
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel on Jun 29, 2022
On the show, Chris Hedges interviews economist Richard Wolff on the precarious state of the US economy and its consequences.
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with Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
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.
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by Ellen Brown
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Web of Debt Blog, Apr. 19, 2020
April 20, 2020
A central bank-financed UBI can fill the debt gap, providing a vital safety net while preventing cyclical recessions.
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