A topic that most do not understand although so fundamental to our economy (Richard uses the term “Gilts”, which is what government bonds are called in the UK)
Economics
Michael Hudson – The history of debt forgiveness
Economist and author Michael Hudson, author of ‘…and Forgive Them Their Debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year’, shares with journalist Chris Hedges how ancient cultures forgave debt cyclically […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Discussing Seattle’s Amazon Head Tax
Yanis Varoufakis’s take on why Amazon and other companies in Seattle are refusing to pay a “head tax” on their employees to finance housing for the poor and the consequences of such policies. Listen here
Economics
Renegade Inc: Michael Hudson, Richard D. Wolff – America, Money or Your Life
During quarantine, what better to do than check in with two of America’s great economists? We wanted to know where next for capitalist America as this deadly virus grips an already frail economy. Has the […]
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