From Cold War to Class War

Interview with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson (CV). 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.

Dr. Hudson has been appointed Chief Economic Advisor for the Kucinich for President campaign, and is writing a new tax policy for the United States. He is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends, 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 (PDF). Visit his website.

Recent :

Radio

• iTulip Interview Thursday - 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)

in Guns and Butter, KPFA - Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
"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

Beneath The Surface with Suzi Weissman - April 24th 2006

Speeches

• Real Estate: Growth, Crash, or Soft Landing? (audio-mp3 file)

Dr. Michael Hudson speaks on the current real estate market - 2006 December

Articles

• Saving, Asset-Price Inflation, and Debt-Induced Deflation , Post-Keynesian Conference, June 2004

• The Lost Tradition of Biblical Debt Cancellations (1992)

• Road to Serfdom - An illustrated guide to the coming real estate collapse - April 2006

• 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

• Will Europe suffer the Swiss Syndrome - August 2003

Interviews

• 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

Books

• Super Imperialism - The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance - 2003

• Coming in 2007: 2nd ed. of Trade, Development and Foreign Debt - (1992)