Michael Hudson speaks with Justin Ritchie on his favorite topics, such as debt deflation, austerity, classical economists on rentiers, and the coming financial cold war.
Read more...Banks have gotten a painful reminder that originating risky assets like junk bonds and loans can leave them holding the bag.
Read more...How should we view Zero Dark Thirty versus other technically esteemed films with unsavory content like Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will?
Read more...A proposal for how to overcome the lack of consensus in Europe over the refugee crisis.
Read more...The big obstacle to reducing carbon emissions isn’t economic costs, but inertia and the impact on powerfully placed special interests.
Read more...Hamptons real estate is soft at the high end. A portent for the financial health of the super rich?
Read more...Moodys give an update on the sorry state of public pension funds’ coffers.
Read more...The presidential debates carefully tip-toe around basic foreign policy and domestic security issues. Time to lift the cone of silence.
Read more...What can we learn from the Vietnamese, Cuban, Rwandan, and Syrian refugees crises?
Read more...Why are central banks and governments opting for their unusual negative interest rate stance?
Read more...Russia has already secured important aims in Syria.
Read more...Yves here. Beverly Mann is angry about Obama’s Supreme Court nominee so you don’t have to be (as much).
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