Michael Hudson: Argentina’s New $50 Billion IMF Loan Is Designed to Replay its 2001 Crisis
Michael Hudson explains why the new IMF bailout of Argentina will not end well.
Read more...Michael Hudson explains why the new IMF bailout of Argentina will not end well.
Read more...The IMF is back in Argentina. The fund pretends that it’s moved away from borrower-punitive programs, but the evidence says otherwise.
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Read more...Economic migrants seek prosperity and are justified in doing so, yet they can also be seen as pawns in an international strategy that destroys the negotiating leverage of workers. The resulting contradictions potentially render conventional political classifications obsolete.
Read more...Tourism in Spain accounted for a quarter of the jobs created since 2013 — but mass-tourism of this type brings its own problems.
Read more...Leftout podcast of The Hudson Report, with Michael Hudson, discussing the award to Argentina of the biggest loan in the IMF’s history (includes transcript).
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Read more...More lying with statistics on the inequality front.
Read more...A case study in teaching modern money to a progressive who unknowingly has swallowed neoliberal economic ideas.
Read more...The EU is neither happy with nor cowed by Trump’s latest trade threat.
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