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 to prevent debt peonage and the rise of an oligarch elite.
Deregulation
Anat Admati: Seeing through “the banker’s new clothes”
Anat R. Admati holds a bachelor’s degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a doctorate from Yale University, and is a professor of finance and economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her recent […]
EU politics
Politics Theory Other: Richard Seymour on the Labour Party’s anti-semitism row
As the political and economic situation in the United Kingdom declines rapidly, corporate media has concentrated on purported anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Politics Theory Other tries to determine how well founded this claim is. […]
Economics
Mark Blyth, Jeff Colgan – The Corona Oil Shock
Something strange happened in late April: the price of oil went negative. This below-zero price tag didn’t last long, but it remains unusually cheap. And thanks to the coronavirus, it will likely stay that way […]
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