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The New Feudalism
The New Feudalism SHARMINI PERIES & MICHAEL HUDSON SHARMINI PERIES: Michael, on page 260 of your book, J is for Junk Economics, you deal with the issue of Social Security and it’s a myth that […]
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Venezuela Cash Reserves Reach New Low Amid U.S.- Led Sabotage
Venezuela Cash Reserves Reach New Low Amid U.S.- Led Sabotage Years of efforts to destabilize and weaken Venezuela’s leftist government have taken their toll, with the South American nation now down to its last 10 […]
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Ukraine Has Lost Billions On EU Trade Agreement In Year One
Ukraine Has Lost Billions On The Trade Agreement With The EU In Year One TYLER DURDEN via GEFIRA The Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) between Ukraine and the European Union, which came into […]
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The Myth of Tax Rates: How the Rich Get Richer
The Myth of Tax Rates: How the Rich Get Richer SHARMINI PERIES – MICHAEL HUDSON SHARMINI PERIES: Michael, in your new book, J is for Junk Economics, we are going to talk about Trump’s plan […]
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The Fictitious Economy – Hiding How the Economy Really Works
The Fictitious Economy: Hiding How the Economy Really Works Michael Hudson, author of the newly released J is for Junk Economics, says the media and academia use well-crafted euphemisms to conceal how the economy really […]
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Germany’s Days in the EU Sun – Will Trump End or Extend Them?
Germany’s Days in the EU Sun – Will Trump End or Extend Them? PHIL BUTLER Germany has more-or-less run EU policy for the last decade and a half. Today, with a political wasteland of failed […]
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The Rothschilds Own John McCain
The Rothschilds Own John McCain By the middle of the nineteenth century, the Bank of England was predominantly controlled by the Rothschild family. JONAS E. ALEXIS We have argued over the past few months that […]
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The Problem with Gold-Backed Currencies
The Problem with Gold-Backed Currencies CHARLES HUGH SMITH Any currency is only truly “backed by gold” if it is convertible to gold. There is something intuitively appealing about the idea of a gold-backed currency — […]
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AFRICA: The Role of Oxfam, Unicef, Live Aid in the Deliberate Destabilization of African Nations
AFRICA: The Role of Oxfam, Unicef, Live Aid in the Systematic Destabilization of African Nations VANESSA BEELEY “One thing that keeps me puzzled, despite having studied finance and economics at the world’s best universities, the […]
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Finance as Warfare – the IMF Lent to Greece Knowing It Could Never Pay Back Debt
Finance as Warfare: the IMF Lent to Greece Knowing It Could Never Pay Back Debt SHARMINI PERIES & MICHAEL HUDSON SHARMINI PERIES: The latest economic indicator showed that the Greek economy shrank by 0.4% in […]