Michael Hudson discusses geopolitics including currency power plays, global institutions like the IMF, the new Cold War, and Bill Gates
Read more...Michael Hudson gives a long historical account of the role of debt and money as a tool for promoting prosperity and political dominance.
Read more...China has been setting up currency swap lines with many countries. But is this an idea that is ahead of its time?
Read more...Most of us would not want to live in a society where bitcoin succeeds.
Read more...Reading the tea leaves of the economy after Covid…..assuming an “after Covid”.
Read more...Michael Hudson recaps his classic Super Imperalism and extends it to the 21st century struggle for dominance among the US, China, and Russia.
Read more...Trump’s approach to trade largely failed because the problem can’t be solved by tariffs. Here’s the answer.
Read more...A recent book focuse on the role of the carry trade in increasing financialization and instabilty.
Read more...The costs of imperial rent-seeking.
Read more...The IRS is officially in “No more Mr. Nice Guy” mode with respect to cryptocurrency enforcement.
Read more...Why the dollar is not losing its privileged status any time soon.
Read more...Heiner Flassbeck shows it defies macroeconomic logic to promote surpluses for Germany, prohibit government deficits everywhere else and forbid the central bank from acting as the central bank of each Euro member.
Read more...Without an agreed set of rules, the eurozone cannot be sustained. Ironically, as the EU’s biggest creditor, Germany stands to lose the most from its court’s ruling.
Read more...The Eurozone, despite years of band-aids over gunshot wounds, has managed to soldier on. It may have finally met its match in the coronacrisis
Read more...Keeping tabs on Fed munificence.
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