How Effective Is International Aid and Assistance? The Rise of Debt Traps
Special interests and the lack of a unified vision facilitate corruption. Rising debt levels in the developing world suggest a tipping point.
Read more...Special interests and the lack of a unified vision facilitate corruption. Rising debt levels in the developing world suggest a tipping point.
Read more...Much higher interest rates – due to Western central banks – damage developing nations via prolonged debt distress and stagnation.
Read more...High interest rates for Israeli bond offerings, plus mumble-shuffle by manager Goldman and the SEC, confirm investor doubts about its prospects
Read more...Michael Hudson in a bracing talk, including history of crises, the role of debt, and how ancient Greek and Roman law promoted inequality
Read more...UK and US policy are mean to the poor, even though that stinginess costs all of us.
Read more...A revealing, and not at all in a good way, discussion of private equity by departing CalSTRS Chief Investment Officer Chris Ailman.
Read more...The risk of rolling financial/economic crises across much of the Global South is high and the pressures seem only to be rising.
Read more...The solar panel business illustrate how corporations will always find the least acceptable solution to any problem, as they have with AI
Read more...Radhika Desai and Michael Husdon provide a data-driven discussion of the inflating and detonation of debt bombs during the neoliberal era.
Read more...US bank pain: Loans for urban office buildings come a cropper as they were already suffering other interest rate losses.
Read more...An attempt to correct the “blame the poors” approach to the reality and systemic risk posed by debt among lower-income borrowers.
Read more...Michael Hudson pulls out his crystal ball to forecast what might be in store for 2024.
Read more...Michael Hudson reprises favorite themes, particularly the role of rentiers and debt dynamics, with some new tidbits.
Read more...The World Bank insists on private finance or economic recovery but does little to ensure profit-hungry commercial finance serves the public
Read more...A wide-ranging talk, using Western bashing of China’s economy as a point of departure.
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