Economics
Michael Hudson, Glenn Diesen – Europe’s Stockholm Syndrome
20 September 2025
Financial Institutions
Economics
Richard D. Wolff, Michael Hudson, Nima Alkhorshid – Late-Stage Barbarism Meets a Mixed-Economy Bloc
11 September 2025 NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi everybody, today is Thursday, September 11, 2025, and our friends Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff are back with us. Welcome back. RICHARD WOLFF: Glad to be here. NIMA ALKHORSHID: […]
Austerity
William Thomson, Dirk Ehnts – Should an independent Scotland adopt the EU fiscal rules?
An independent Scotland would likely start life with a substantial public deficit so adopting the EU’s fiscal rules would mean austerity. William Thomson is a political economist and has worked for almost a decade in […]
Economics
Kyiv Independent: IMF identifies $10-20 billion gap in Ukraine’s external financing, Bloomberg reports
The International Monetary Fund has determined that Ukraine’s financing needs over the next two years may exceed the government’s estimates by $10–20 billion, Bloomberg reported on Sept. 11, citing undisclosed sources. But don’t worry, Europe […]
Economics
Richard D. Wolff, Michael Hudson, Nima Alkhorshid – From Free Lunch to Forced Tribute
28 August 2025 NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi everybody, today is Thursday, August 28, 2025, and our friends Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson are back with us. Welcome back, Richard and Michael. RICHARD WOLFF: Glad to be […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Gopinath, the IMF and ‘good policies’
The IMF and its academic acolytes want more austerity and privatisation, ignoring the fact that these ‘good policies’ are what got us here. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific […]
Economics
Branko Milanović – Trump: Neoliberal agenda pursued by direct means
The main difference between Trump and the “traditional” neoliberals turns out to be their optimism or pessimism regarding durable control of government Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book, […]
Economics
Ann Pettifor: Technocrats as handmaidens to authoritarianism
Central bank technocrats are not ‘independent’ Read Article HERE This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
Economics
Michael Roberts – Jackson Hole 2025: monetary policy, demography and productivity
Central banks don’t really control inflation. Their real purpose is to protect financial assets at the expense of workers’ wages. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from […]
Economics
Michael Hudson, Ben Norton – America’s Free Lunch Economy
Economist Michael Hudson warns that the U.S. has morphed into a “free lunch economy,” where wealth flows not from production but from unearned rents and financial gains. Wall Street landlords like Blackstone buy up homes, […]