Michael Hudson Asks Our Readers: If Democracy Winds Up Creating Financial Dominance, What Do We Call China?
Michael Hudson seeks reader input on what to call modern governments not run by traditional nobles or financial interests.
Read more...Michael Hudson seeks reader input on what to call modern governments not run by traditional nobles or financial interests.
Read more...A short discussion of government bonds and what happens when a central bank holds them.
Read more...Trying to make sense of what the Fed is up to.
Read more...Are the Roaring Twenties an analogue for what a post Covid economy would look like?
Read more...China and the US are doing an awful lot of chest-poking, and if anything, it’s getting worse under Biden. Could this sparring lead to war?
Read more...On a aggregate basis, EU banks appear to have enough capital to weather even a bad Covid storm. A country-by-country look tells another story.
Read more...History shows robust antitrust enforcement helps promote a prosperous, fair, and balanced economy.
Read more...Biden”s Central America plan includes US funding of domestic security forces to keep citizens put and support foreign economic exploitation.
Read more...Financial legerdemain is still very much with us, despite the Big One in 2008 and continuing distortions confirming its high cost.
Read more...Hundreds of millions of dollars for anti-trafficking/slavery sidesteps how rich countries exploit labour in poor nations.
Read more...Why Covid will be with us for a very long time.
Read more...Mortality and economic data show that stingy government spending and resistance to redistrbution have increased Covid health costs.
Read more...Unicorn startups are even more unprofitable than those that did not achieve unicorn status.
Read more...Taking a stab at how global warming will affect bond ratings in the intermediate and long term.
Read more...A pox on hypocritical environmentalists who are nowhere to be found in demanding a stop to pointless, energy profligate Bitcoin.
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