Tag Archives: Michael Hudson
Debt as a Weapon
Michael Hudson has a new post up discussing the future of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Here’s taste: “Since Roman times, creditors have forced debtors who could not repay to forfeit their assets through foreclosure or forced sale. … Continue reading
Hudsonism
I’m pretty sure that a lot of leftist’s have not realized that Marxism, as a way in which to critique industrial capitalism, has been made largely irrelevant by neoliberalism. Moreover, by insisting that the “market” is the most advanced information … Continue reading
Oh, So Super
Have you wondered why US foreign policy never seems to change irrespective of which candidate or party resides in the White House? Or why it seems that the route to riches in America is through looting? Or why it seems … Continue reading
Hedge Fund Nation
It has become apparent that we are ruled by economic sociopaths, more commonly known as hedge funds. This dynamic has not gone unnoticed. A new survey suggests the GameStop saga has become a very real lightning rod for anti–Wall Street sentiment. In … Continue reading
Financial Feudalism
The Wall Street Crash of 2008, the bailout, and the Fed’s Quantitative Easing (QE) intensified inequality in America. And now they’re getting the band back together. Behind all the focus on the human toll of the pandemic there are quiet … Continue reading
Enemy Of Empire
General Soleimani was assassinated because he was successful at opposing the US empire and defeating their terrorist proxies. Soleimani was not a mastermind of terrorism, as the corporate media alleges. He was a mastermind of legitimate resistance against American … Continue reading
All about the Benjamins
I’ve talked about the deep state at length but the whole Epstein affair casts this dynamic in a much darker hue. For instance, there’s no way that a serial pedophile blackmailer like Epstein went unnoticed by the vaunted intelligence … Continue reading
Makers and Takers
My state elected a looter as its senator. Only now, a senator from a different state has introduced an anti-looting bill. What’s a looter to do? Elizabeth Warren’s Stop Wall Street Looting Act, which is co-sponsored by Tammy Baldwin, … Continue reading
Perpetual Motion Machine
Most American assume that the US is involved in multiple Middle-East wars because of oil but it’s actually about the dollar as the worlds reserve currency. Allow me to explain. In 1971 President Nixon took the US off the … Continue reading
