Michael Hudson: The U.S. Empire’s Plan for Global Domination
Michael Hudson: War on Iran is part of the US empire’s effort to re-impose its dominance on the global political and financial system
Read more...Michael Hudson: War on Iran is part of the US empire’s effort to re-impose its dominance on the global political and financial system
Read more...A detailed, yet still softball, take on how climate change damage will wreck property values and much of what passes for an economy
Read more...An orthodox economist describes inconsistencies in rating agencies’ approach to downgrading US debt and their view of reserve currency status
Read more...It can’t be said too often: what most economists call growth is too often what we here call groaf.
Read more...Trump does have a plan to shore up America”s flagging power, even if, when you put the pieces together, it does not make much sense.
Read more...While there are things the debt-addled West can learn from Japan, the dirty secret is they were in some key ways in better shape than we are.
Read more...In Treasury markets, there are no libertarians, only grateful recipients of single-payer insurance for ailing financiers.
Read more...On the long-standing religious and ethical proscriptions against usury, and how and why the Catholic Church rebranded it as interest.
Read more...A wide ranging talk that corrects the record about banking, such as the the Catholic Church, as opposed to Jews, being the prime mover
Read more...A look at two factoids in a new Martin Wolf article illustrate why our economic mess seems intractable….and not just for the feckless US.
Read more...Why the downside to Trump economic policies are far greater than the press and pundit class are willing to acknowledge.
Read more...Mapping the contagion fever chart of how a Trump financial meltdown might unfold.
Read more...Why BRICS has gotten barely anywhere on launching its own finanicial institutions and why that is unlikely to change soon if ever.
Read more...Why the Trump-induced economic and financial train wrecks will be more severe than most pundits seem to anticipate.
Read more...The era before modern banking took off featured flexible, highly personal credit arrangements, in some ways better than what we have now.
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