Sharmini Peries – Michael Hudson

Michael Hudson is a former Wall Street economist. A Distinguished Research Professor at University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC), he is the author of many books, including Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (new ed., Pluto Press, 2002). His new book is: Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy (a CounterPunch digital edition). Sharmini Peries is executive producer of The Real News Network. This is a transcript of Michael Hudson’s interview with Sharmini Peries on the Real News Network.

Why Trump’s Tariff Travesty Will Not Re-Industrialize the US

Trump Privatizes America

The New Feudalism

The Myth of Tax Rates: How the Rich Get Richer

The Fictitious Economy: Hiding How the Economy Really Works

Finance as Warfare: the IMF Lent to Greece Knowing It Could Never Pay Back Debt

Developer Welfare: Trump’s Infrastructure Plan

As the Election Turns: Trump the Anti-Neocon, Hillary the New Darling of the Neocons

The Wages of Neoliberalism: Poverty, Exile and Early Death

The Financial Invasion of Greece

Panama and the Criminalization of the Global Finance System

Behind the Market Crash: the Smoke and Mirrors of Corporate Buybacks

Quantitative Easing for Whom?

Euro Banks vs. Greek Labor

Why Obama Got Nothing at APEC