Interviews, articles and publications by
 
Dr. Michael Hudson

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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 (1968 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.

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

Recent documents (Interviews ; Articles ; Books )

Interviews

A Tax Program for U.S. Economic Recovery, ITulip , February 2009, Eric Janszen interviews Dr. Michael Hudson before his lecture at Harvard University, December 2008

Guns and Butter interviews on KPFA radio, October 8^th and 15^th 2008
Transcripts: Part One: The New Kleptocracy; Part Two: The Bailout’s New Financial Oligarchy

US Seizes Control of AIG with $85 Billion Bailout, A Democracy Now interview with Nomi Prins and Michael Hudson,  September 17^th 2008 (rush transcript) audio , video

The Worsening U.S. Debt Crisis, An interview with Economist Michael Hudson, by Mike Whitney Global Research, September 9^th, 2008

The Fictitious Economy, Part 2. A Black Agenda Report July 30^th 2008
The Fictitious Economy, Part 1. A Black Agenda Report July 15^th 2008
(both are transcripts of a Guns and Butter Interview on KPFA radio , June 25^th 2008)

Getting to the Heart of America's Economic Crisis. An Interview by Mike Whitney with Michael Hudson ." Counterpunch July 1^st 2008

The Game is over : There Won't be a Rebound. An Interview by Mike Whitney with Michael Hudson on the Economy." Counterpunch,  June 20^th 2008

FIRE Economy in Crisis, April 7^th , 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

 

Articles

How the Financial Reform Plan Protects the Status Quo , Obama's (Latest) Surrender to Wall Street , Counterpunch, June, 22nd

De-Dollarization: Dismantling America’s Financial-Military Empire,
The Yekaterinburg Turning Point, Global Research, June 13^th

Washington cannot call all the shots , op-ed Financial Times , June 14^th

Gordon Brown spills the beans on the IMF: Make Iceland pay for Incompetent British Bank Deregulation, Counterpunch, May 11^th

U.S. Military Spending and the up-coming G-20 Meeting, Political Economy Research , March 29^th

The Financial Sector: "A House Burning Down" - Ben Bernanke’s False Analogy, Global Research, March 16^th, 2009

Finance Capitalism Hits a Wall. The Oligarchs’ Escape Plan – at the Treasury’s Expense,  Global Research , February 17^th, 2009

Bubble Economy 2.0: The Financial Recovery Plan from Hell, GlobalResearch , February 11^th, 2009

Obama’s new bank giveaway. It Won't Save the Economy; It May Make the Crisis Worse. Counterpunch January 30 / February 1, 2009

Wealth Creation, or a Ponzi Scheme? GlobalResearch , Dec. 23^rd 2008

Scenes From the Global Class War - Scrawny Geese; No More Golden Egg, Counterpunch , Oct. 27^th 2008

Financial Warfare against Labor and Industry - Global Markets in Turmoil, Global Research , Oct. 26^th 2008

Parsing Mr. Paulson’s Bailout Speech . The Unprecedented Giveaway of Financial Wealth Story, Global Research , Oct. 18^th 2008

The Big Bank Job. The Insanity of the $700 Billion Giveaway , Counterpunch , Sept. 25^th 2008

Mr. Paulson and the New Yazoo Land Scandal. A Cautionary Tale About Politicos and Financiers, Counterpunch , Sept. 23^rd 2008

The Paulson-Bernanke Bank Bailout:
Will the Cure be Worse than the Disease? Counterpunch, Sept. 22^nd 2008

Financial Bailout: America's Own Kleptocracy. The largest transformation of America's Financial System since the Great Depression, Global Research, September 20^th 2008

The Chicago School's long descent, Asia Times , Sep 12^th 2008

The Next Big Bail Outs : State, Local and Private Pensions. Counterpunch, July 31^st 2008 (2^nd version)

Rewarding the Bubble's Enablers. Why the Bail Out of Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae is Bad Economic Policy. Counterpunch, July 15^th 2008

How Should the Middle East invest its Rising Trade Surplus? The Gulf June 2008 issue, and in Counterpunch, June 23^rd 2008

The Fed Sinks the Dollar. The Price-Wage Squeeze. Counterpunch May 1^st 2008 

Resurrecting Greenspan - Hillary Joins the Vast, Rightwing Financial Conspiracy , Counterpunch April 17^th 2008

A Trillion-Dollar Rescue for Wall Street Gamblers. But No Money for Families and Retirees,  Counterpunch April 11^th 2008

A Grand Global Bargain? Save the Economy, Dismantle the Empire -
Counterpunch - March 15^th 2008

Henry George's Political Critics, in American Journal of Economics and Sociology 67 - January 2008

 

Notable articles

Why the “Miracle of Compound Interest” leads to Financial Crises , August 2007

Mathematics of Compound Interest Part 1 Part 2 , April 2001

Finance Capitalism v. Industrial Capitalism , August 1998

 

Books

Global Fracture - The New International Economic Order , 2nd ed. 2005  (1977) University of Michigan Press,  Amazon 

Super Imperialism - The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance - 2^nd ed. 2003 (1968) Pluto Press ,  Amazon
 

Coming in 2009:

2nd ed. of Trade, Development and Foreign Debt - a history of theories of polarisation and convergence in the international economy (1992)

2nd ed. of Economics and Technology in 19th Century American Thought
- The Neglected American Economists 2nd ed. (1975)