Interviews, articles and publications by
 

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Dr. Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1972 and 2003) and of The Myth of Aid (1971).

ISLET engages in research regarding domestic and international finance, national income and balance-sheet accounting with regard to real estate, and the economic history of the ancient Near East.


In 2007, Dr. Hudson was Chief Economic Policy Adviser
for the Kucinich for President campaign.
He is now writing a new tax policy for the United States.

Site content:
Interviews, articles and publications
by the financial economist and -historian Dr. Michael Hudson.

 

Recent documents:

Interviews

The Game is over : An Interview by Mike Whitney with Michael Hudson on the Economy." June 20th, 2008
FIRE Economy in Crisis,
April 7th , iTulip : Part I  - iTulip forum
     PDFs: Part I: Part II, - Part III and Part III are coming.
Debtor Nation: The Hijacking of America’s Economy - January 2008
Scamming Social Security ( local copy ) - September 2007
An Insider Spills the Beans on Offshore Banking Centers - February 2004
Russia: Reforming the Reformers - February 2004
How Privatization Sterilizes Culture - February 2004
Chile's Failed Economic Laboratory - October 2003
Tech Bubble: Who Benefited? -
August 2003
The Coming Financial Reality
July 2003
Duck, Duck, Goose: Financing the War, Financing the World - April 2003

Articles

How Should the Middle East invest its Rising Trade Surplus? The Gulf June 2008 issue, and in Counterpunch, June 23, 2008
The Fed Sinks the Dollar. The Price-Wage Squeeze. Counterpunch May 1st, 2008 
Resurrecting Greenspan - Hillary Joins the Vast, Rightwing Financial Conspiracy , Counterpunch April 17th 2008
A Trillion-Dollar Rescue for Wall Street Gamblers. But No Money for Families and Retirees,  Counterpunch April 11, 2008
A Grand Global Bargain? Save the Economy, Dismantle the Empire -
Counterpunch - March 15th, 2008
Henry George's Political Critics, in American Journal of Economics and Sociology 67 - January 2008
Road to Serfdom - An illustrated guide to the coming real estate collapse - April 2006 (pdf)
THE $4.7 TRILLION PYRAMID. Why Social Security won't be enough to save Wall Street - April 2005
Poland, the Euro and the Dollar's Double Standard  - September 2004
Saving, Asset-Price Inflation, and Debt-Induced Deflation , Post-Keynesian Conference - June 2004
Will Europe suffer the Swiss Syndrome
August 2003
Finance Capitalism v. Industrial Capitalism - August 1998
The Lost Tradition of Biblical Debt Cancellations - 1992 (pdf)

Books
Super Imperialism - The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance -
2003
Coming in 2008:
2nd ed. of 
Global Fracture - The New International Economic Order (1977) 2nd ed. of Trade, Development and Foreign Debt - a history of theories of polarisation and convergence in the international economy
(1992)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Recent audio

Radio
 

Debt cancellation. History of Debt and Credit, Bloomberg radio with Lewis Lapham, Laphams Quarterly, radio).


BBC World Service
- Sept. 17th 2007:


 

The Plot to Shift Taxes Off Wealth onto Wage Earners (audio-mp3)
- Aug 22nd, 2007 in Guns and Butter, KPFA
"AAA rating of subprime junk; inflation; change in world order; privatization of banking system through the Federal Reserve; Alan Greenspan and the 1982 Social Security Committee; junk economics; windfall profits; the law of fraudulent conveyance."

Fighting Against the Class War (audio-mp3)
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Aug 15, 2007 in Guns and Butter, KPFA
Finance against Industry and Labor: "Liquidity crisis in the banking system; wiping out of credit; demise of the dollar; stock volatility; hedge funds; sub-prime lending, real estate tax versus labor tax, etc."

iTulip Interview - March 15th, 2007
Eric Janszen interviews Dr. Michael Hudson on the FIRE economy, the dollar, asset inflation and deflation, and the economic growth ratchet. Part I  Part II (Flash format)

"America: Host or Parasite?" (audio-mp3)
in Guns and Butter, KPFA
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
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We discuss the US balance of payments trade deficit which creates US credit to finance the US national debt and war abroad; Russian economic shock therapy as the final stage of the cold war; the real estate bubble; permanent war and the inevitable collapse of the current US dominated global economic system."

Michael Hudson on the cost of housing
On Beneath The Surface with Suzi Weissman
- April 24th 2006


Speeches

Real Estate: Growth, Crash, or Soft Landing?  (audio-mp3) - December 2006
On the current real estate market
 

 

 

 

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