Michael Hudson

Michael Hudson’s Killing the Host, The Collapse of Antiquity and The Destiny of Civilization are published by CounterPunch Books.

From the Bubble Economy to Debt Deflation and Privatization

Obama’s “Cat Food” Social Security Reform

The Delicious Irony of Morris Greenberg’s AIG Suit Against the US Treasury

The Ideological Crisis Underlying Today’s Tax and Financial Policy

Why the Fiscal Squeeze Imposes Needless Austerity

The Financial War Against the Economy at Large

America’s Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff

Reality Economics

By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them

Wall Street’s War on the Cities

Paul Krugman’s Economic Blinders

Our Very Own Oscar Night in Rimini

Banks Weren’t Meant to Be Like This

Europe’s Deadly Transition From Social Democracy to Oligarchy

Europe’s Deadly Transition From Social Democracy to Oligarchy

The Baltic Tigers’ False Prophets of Austerity

Debt Slavery – Why It Destroyed Rome, Why It Will Destroy Us Unless It’s Stopped

First Steps in Reforming the U.S. Financial and Tax System

Vulture Funds Gorge on Stricken Economies

Obama’s New Populist Fakery

The State and Local Budget Crisis

The Case Against Rating Agencies

War and Debt

Super Imp

Hudson Monster

Obama’s Ambush on Entitlements

Bankers Gear Up for the Rape of Greece, as Social Democrats Vote for National Suicide

When Only "Crazies" See the Bank Giveaway for What It Was

A World at Financial War

Europe’s New Road to Serfdom

Breakup of the Eurozone?

Showdown in Iceland

Now Greenspan Wants to Take It All Back

The Death of "Social Europe"

Obama’s Sellout on Taxes

Deficit Commission Follies

The Borrower and the Billionaire

Next Up: a "Flat Tax" for the Rich

Why Paul Krugman Waves the Flag for Uncle Sam

The Coming Sell-Out to the Super Rich and What It Means for the Rest of Us

Why the U.S. has Launched a New Financial World War — And How the the Rest of the World Will Fight Back

"A Financial Coup d’Etat"

America’s China Bashing

Where is the World Economy Headed?

Obama’s Thatcherite Gift to the Banks

Does Our Economy Really Have to Run on Fraud?

Latvia’s Third Option

Europe’s Fiscal Dystopia: the "New Austerity" Road

The Chicago Boys’ Free Market Theology

The People v. the Bankers