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

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

Michael Hudson — "The View From Europe" on Guns and Butter

"The View From Europe" with Michael Hudson on Guns and Butter, for March 16, 2011 - 1:00pm

Financial and fiscal austerity policies; the appeal of economic austerity to bankers; economic depression and war; post-WWII vs. post-cold war economic policy; government to government grants vs. commercial lending; the euro and dollar; privatization in New Zealand and elsewhere; social unrest; speculation and prices; criminalization of the economy; impoverishment of the US.

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Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 3/16/11 12:00 AM

Michel Chossudovsky — America's Fiscal Collapse: Obama's Budget Will Impoverish America on Guns and Butter

"America's Fiscal Collapse - Obama's Budget Will Impoverish America" with economist and author, Michel Chossudovsky. The administration's 2010 budget will entail the most drastic curtailment in public spending in American history, leading to social havoc and the potential impoverishment of millions of people. Defense spending and bank bailouts will consume all government revenue resulting in fiscal collapse that will lead to the privatization of the state.

America's Fiscal Collapse: by Michel Chossudovsky

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Michel Chossudovsky's website is: http://globalresearch.ca

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Aired: 3/11/09 12:00 AM

Michael Hudson — Europe's Financial Class War Against Labor, Industry and Government on Guns and Butter

"Europe's Financial Class War Against Labor, Industry and Government" with Dr. Michael Hudson. Economic crisis in Europe created by predatory lending; European Central Bank stranglehold on the Eurozone; the Euro; foreign banks decimate Greece's social structure; Marx's industrial capital versus fictitious capital; Latvia as a model for the rest of Europe; Hudson's financial and fiscal plan for Latvia; the Cold War and its ruinous effect on progressive economic thought.

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Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 6/16/10 12:00 AM

Ellen Brown — "The Financial Hijacking of America" on Guns and Butter (June 9, 2010)

"The Financial Hijacking of America" with author, Ellen Brown. Brief history of banking; two ways to create money, either publicly or privately; credit creates money and debt; the Federal Reserve; bubbles and crashes; market manipulation; recent changes in banking and accounting rules; securitization; Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland; the need for state owned banks.

Guns and Butter, for June 9, 2010 - 1:00pm

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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com

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Aired: 6/09/10 12:00 AM

Franck Biancheri — From the Greek Tragedy to the Battle of the Bank of England and the U.S. Fed on Guns and Butter

Guns and Butter, for May 5, 2010 - 1:00pm

"From the Greek Tragedy to the Battle of the Bank of England and the U.S. Fed" with French economist, Franck Biancheri. Signs of the coming break-up of Anglo-Saxon financial domination; trends for the second half of 2010; coverage of the Greek problem; the Euro and the Eurozone; bank bailouts; interest rates; money to fund the huge western public debt becoming increasingly difficult to find.

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Franck Biancheri's website is: http://www.franck-biancheri.info

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Aired: 5/5/10 12:00 AM

Michael Hudson — The New Junk Economics: From Democracy to Neoliberal Oligarchy on Guns and Butter

Guns and Butter - The New Junk Economics: From Democracy to Neoliberal Oligarchy

"The New Junk Economics: From Democracy to Neoliberal Oligarchy" with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. We discuss the Federal Reserve; money as debt; Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's misconception of the causes of the great depression of the 1930's; classical political economy versus anti-classical, so-called "neoclassical", economics; the labor theory of value; the dollar carry trade; government deficit spending; Greece.


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Aired: 2/10/10 12:00 AM

Michael Hudson — Obama's Republican Class War Presidency

Guns and Butter - Obama's Republican Class War Presidency

"Obama's Republican Class War Presidency" with financial economist, Michael Hudson, on Obama's State of the Union Speech and its economic consequences. The reappointment Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke.


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Aired: 2/3/10 12:00 AM

Michael Hudson — Dress Rehearsal For Debt Peonage

"Dress Rehearsal For Debt Peonage" with economist Dr. Michael Hudson on why the banks are returning the bailout money; bank fees and penalties; banks prefer default to foreclosure; debt as wealth; Obama's Financial Regulatory Reform Proposal and its six major flaws; the deregulation-by centralization ploy; failure to reform the economy will lead to debt peonage.


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Aired: 8/26/09 12:00 AM

Michael Hudson — Iceland Recovering From Neoliberal Disaster

"Iceland Recovering From Neoliberal Disaster" with Dr. Michael Hudson on Iceland's banking crisis and foreign debt; it's decision to push back against IMF and World Bank austerity; Gordon Brown's role in the Icesave scandal; the capacity to pay principle; similarities with Germany's foreign debt reparations from the 1920s; European Union disarray; media omissions.


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Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 8/19/09 12:00 AM

Michael Hudson — The Plot to Shift Taxes Off Wealth Onto Wage Earners

Interview with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. AAA rating of subprime junk; inflation; mishandling of crookedness; change in world order; privatization of banking system through the Federal Reserve; Alan Greenspan, Social Security and junk economics; windfall profits; the law of fraudulent conveyance.

Dr. Hudson has been appointed Chief Economic Policy Advisor for the Kucinich for President campaign, and is writing a new tax policy for the United States. He is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trend, a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of "Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire".


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Aired: 070822 (no longer available)

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Aired: 5/18/09 12:00 AM

Michael Hudson — The Financial Barbarians at the Gate

Interview with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. We discuss the US balance of payments trade deficit which creates US credit to finance the US national debt and war abroad; Russian economic shock therapy as the final stage of the cold war; the real estate bubble; permanent war and the inevitable collapse of the current US dominated global economic system.


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Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 4/15/09 12:00 AM

Michael Hudson — The Way We Were and What We Are Becoming

"The Way We Were and What We Are Becoming" with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson.  We begin with an analysis of the continuing bailout of insurance giant AIG and Monday's stock market selloff; price and debt deflation; the two sectors of the economy; two definitions of 'free markets'; the classical economists; revolution from the right and the former Soviet states; the threat of war; IMF/World Bank resurgence; the dollar versus the euro; analogies to Rome, neo-feudalism.


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Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 3/4/09 12:00 AM

Michael Hudson — The New Kleptocracy

"The New Kleptocracy" with economist Dr. Michael Hudson on Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's "Plan" passed by Congress on October 3, 2008.  We discuss what is being purchased, the congressional vote, what this means for the oligarchs, and what this means for the rest of us.


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Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 10/8/08 12:00 AM

Michael Hudson — The New Road To Serfdom

Interview with economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson, on his book in progress, “The Fictitious Economy: How Finance Is Destroying Industrial Capitalism and Paving a New Road to Serfdom”. We examine what is meant by the term “fictitious” as the concept is applied to aspects of today’s economy. We take a look at the role of war and the demise of the dollar, the bubble economy, and what could unfold in the future.


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Aired: 08 (no longer available)

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Aired: 1/1/08 12:00 AM

Michael Hudson — How Alan Greenspan’s Junk Economic Doctrine Helped Popularize Junk Mortgages

Interview with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. On today’s program we discuss former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s legacy. Alan Greenspan has published an autobiography, “The Age of Turbulence”. We look at Alan Greenspan’s role in 1982 as the head of the Commission on Social Security; his eighteen-year role as Chairman of the Federal Reserve; as architect of dollar devaluation; and his role in the 1999 repeal of New Deal Legislation - The Glass-Steagall Act.


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Source: noliesradio.org Guns & Butter
Aired: 9/26/07 12:00 AM

Michael Hudson — From Cold War To Class War

Interview with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. Liquidity crisis in the banking system; wiping out of credit; demise of the dollar; stock volatility; hedge funds; sub- prime lending, real estate tax versus labor tax, etc.

Dr. Hudson has been appointed Chief Economic Advisor for the Kucinich for President campaign, and is writing a new tax policy for the United States. He is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trend, a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of "Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire"


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

Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 070815 (no longer available)

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Aired: 8/15/07 12:00 AM