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.
Economics
BBC – Shaking the Magic Money Trees
There is a magic money tree! Governments need neither tax nor borrow to spend. They can create money – and lots of it. £435 billion was created for quantitative easing in Britain. Listen here
Economics
Tax Justice Network – Oligopoly Capitalism: the threats to economies and democracies
In this month’s Taxcast: Oligopoly Capitalism: the threats to economies and democracies. Naomi Fowler talks to investor and author Jonathan Tepper who’s co-written a book called ‘The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the death of […]
EU politics
Renegade Inc – The great British train robbery
The former British Prime Minister and devout neoliberal, Margaret Thatcher was in favour of mass privatisation but even she claimed that privatising the British Rail system was ‘a privatisation too far’, but this didn’t stop […]
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