Friday, September 16, 2011

L. Randall Wray — L. Randall Wray interviewed by Ian Masters on KPFK FM-90.7 - Los Angeles

L. Randall Wray — L. Randall Wray interviewed by Ian Masters on KPFK FM-90.7 - Los Angeles

Economist Randall Wray joins us for a macro-economic analysis of adverse economic trends at home and abroad amid dire predictions of a double-dip recession in the U.S. and defaults in Europe. We will try to connect the dots to see if we are indeed at a Smoot-Hawley moment where the Congress, instead of reversing economic decline, has accelerated it.

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L. Randall Wray's website is: New Economic Perspectives
Source: New Economic Perspectives

Aired: 8/04/11 12:00 AM

Michael Hudson — "Guns, Finance and Butter - Finance Is the New Mode of Warfare" on Guns and Butter

"Guns, Finance and Butter - Finance Is the New Mode of Warfare" with Michael Hudson on Guns and Butter, for July 13, 2011 - 1:00pm

The jobless recovery; the debt ceiling and default; China; Greece; banks, not countries, receive the bailouts; financial warfare; IMF and EU; European Central Bank; US credit default swaps; US agricultural exports create food dependency; currency devaluation devalues the price of labor; class war of banks against the rest of society.

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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com

Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 7/13/11 12:00 AM

Michael Hudson — "Debt Deflation in Europe and America" on Guns and Butter

"Debt Deflation in Europe and America" with Michael Hudson on Guns and Butter, for September 14, 2011 - 1:00pm

European banking crisis causing a constitutional crisis of the European Central Bank; Germany; the myth of Social Security in the US.; bank balance sheet crisis; food, fuel and climate crisis; the super congress; debt deflation; FHA lawsuit against the banks; criminalization of the financial sector; Modern Monetary Theory; the coming lost decade; debt cancellation.

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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com

Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 9/14/11 12:00 AM