Economics
Frances Coppola – Inflation, interest rates and the fall of Lehman
It’s fashionable to argue that the Federal Reserve could have prevented the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession. But is this true? Read Article HERE
Financial Institutions
Austerity
Steve Keen – “The real problem isn’t deficits, It’s Neoliberalism“
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Economics
Michael Hudson – Today’s Civilisational Conflict
Abstract: United States’ evangelistic rhetoric describes the imminent political and economic fracture of the world economy as a “conflict of civilisation” between democracies (countries that support US policy) and autocracies (nations acting independently). It would […]
Finance
Michael Roberts – Debt and the cockroaches
The US stock market is bullish, but there are signs that the financial system has found new ways to re-produce risky lending crisis eerily familiar to the notorious sub-prime loans in 2008. Michael Roberts is […]
Economics
Michael Hudson, Glenn Diesen – GDP Without Goods: The Rentier Mirage
17 October 2025 GLENN DIESEN: Welcome back to the program. We are joined again by our good friend Professor Michael Hudson to discuss neoliberal economics, its unavoidable end and what comes thereafter. So welcome back […]
Economics
Richard D. Wolff, Michael Hudson, Nima Alkhorshid – Managed Democracy?
16 Ocotber 2025 NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, October 16, 2025, and our friends, Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson, join us today. Welcome, Richard and Michael. MICHAEL HUDSON: Good to be here. RICHARD […]
Economics
Thomas Palley – How the IMF and US helped loot and entrap Argentina with debt
Neoliberal looting and debt entrapment of Argentina. IMF and US election interference may yet secure victory for Milei. Thomas Palley is an American economist who has served as the chief economist for the United States-China […]
Finance
Michael Roberts – The AI bubble and the US economy
The US economy would be in recession-territory if it were not for the enormous bet that has been placed that AI really will deliver productivity growth in short order, a bet that looks perilous. Michael […]
Economics
Richard D. Wolff, Michael Hudson, Nima Alkhorshid – Libertarian Fantasy, Police State Reality
2 October 2025 NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi everybody. Today is Thursday, October 2nd, 2025, and our friends, Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson, join us today. Welcome, Richard and Michael. MICHAEL HUDSON: It’s good to be back. […]
Finance
Mark Episkopos – Europe’s latest seized Russian asset scheme is as dumb as ever
European leaders have a penchant for self-harm when it comes to the Ukraine war: everything they do comes back at them like a boomerang. Mark Episkopos is a Eurasia Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute […]