Sun 2009-09-20 12:17 EDT

Michael Hudson - financial economist and historian

Publications by financial economist and historian Michael Hudson, on finance and accounting, real estate and history of ancient Near East (reform, taxation, monetary, investment, instability, poverty, development, globalisation, real estate, statistics, property, land, value, reform, taxation, rent, Henry George, international, finance, IMF, World Bank, critique, euro, policy, Sumer, economic, history, Babylonia, usury, interest, rates, ancient, U.S., imperialism, privatization, urbanization, national, income, accounts, wealth, distribution, money, credit, monetarism, criticism, creditary, financial)

Financial economist; historians; Michael Hudson.

naked capitalism Mon 2009-09-14 12:13 EDT

Guest Post: We Can't Break Up the Giant Banks, Can We? Yes We Can!

George Washington of Washington's Blog.

Top economists and financial experts believe that the economy cannot recover unless the big, insolvent banks are broken up in an orderly fashion. Arguments by defenders of the too-big-to-fails are shown unpersuasive.

break; giant bank; Guest Post; naked capitalism.

naked capitalism Sun 2009-09-13 16:32 EDT

Guest Post: The Economy Will Not Recover Until Trust is Restored

George Washington of Washington's Blog

...our economy is not fundamentally stabilizing ...because the government and the financial giants are taking actions and releasing data which encourage more distortion and less trust..all of the happy talk in the world won't turn the economy around when the fundamentals of the economy are lousy, or there has been a giant bubble and vast overleveraging, or there has been massive fraud, or the government has gone so far into debt that it has formed a black hole... the chair of the congressional oversight committee of the bailouts (Elizabeth Warren) and the senior regulator during the S & L crisis (William Black) both say that hiding the true state of affairs and trying to put a happy face on an economic crisis just prolongs the length and severity of the crash...trying to instill false confidence will actually backfire on Summers, Geithner, Bernanke and the boys and make the crisis worse.

economy; Guest Post; naked capitalism; recover; restore; trust.

naked capitalism Sun 2009-09-13 12:26 EDT

Guest Post: Top Economists Say We Must Break Up the Insolvent Banks (Government Says Let's Make Them Bigger)

George Washington of Washington's Blog

The following top economists and financial experts believe that the economy cannot recover unless the big, insolvent banks are broken up in an orderly fashion: Joseph Stiglitz, Ed Prescott, R. Glenn Hubbard, Simon Johnson, Thomas Hoenig, Neal S. Wolin, Sheila Bair, Anna Schwartz, William K. Black, et al...And yet, the top economic policy makers (Summer, Geithner and Bernanke)...don't want to break up the insolvent giants or even keep them from growing, don't want to reinstate Glass-Steagall, and want to let the banks keep using their same inaccurate models, overseen by the same spineless regulators.

bigger; break; Government Says Let's Make; Guest Post; insolvent banks; naked capitalism; Top economist says.

Satyajit Das's Blog - Fear & Loathing in Financial Products Sun 2009-08-30 12:20 EDT

El-dollardo Economics

In the 1980s, the Japanese were taking over the world. In the 1990s, it was going to be an ?Asian? century. These days the pundits are betting on the ?Chinese Age?. Like all such glib predictions, despite their superficial appeal, they mask complex undercurrents and issues that require careful study. Business journalist Michael Schuman's The Miracle: The Epic Story of Asia's Quest for Wealth. Paul Midler's Poorly Made in China; quality fade. Underlying both `The Miracle' and `Poorly Made in China' is a view of the emerging world best captured by the term `Orientalism', associated with Edward Said...the West's view of the East was shaped by political power and unequal commercial exchange. Said's work built on George Orwell's criticism of colonialism. Former Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang's secret journal `Prisoner of the State' provides antidote to a Western view of East Asia.

El-dollardo Economics; fears; financial products; loath; Satyajit Das's Blog.

Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST

SSRN-Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit by George Akerlof, Paul Romer

Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit, by George A. Akerlog and Paul M. Rojer (1994)

bankruptcy; Economic Underworld; George Akerlof; Paul Romer; profits; SSRN-Looting.

Fri 2008-11-07 00:00 EST

SSRN-Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit by George Akerlof, Paul Romer

(1994); ``Bankruptcy for profit will occur if poor accounting, lax regulation, or low penalties for abuse give owners an incentive to pay themselves more than their firms are worth and then default on their debt obligations.''

bankruptcy; Economic Underworld; George Akerlof; Paul Romer; profits; SSRN-Looting.

Tue 2008-10-28 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: George Magnus on the Economic Outlook

economic outlook; George Magnus; naked capitalism.

Tue 2008-10-07 00:00 EDT

He Foresaw the End of an Era - The New York Review of Books

He Foresaw the End of an Era, by John Cassidy - The New York Review of Books; review of George Soros' The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means

books; ending; era; foresaw; New York Review.

Tue 2008-09-23 00:00 EDT

The Perilous Price of Oil - The New York Review of Books

The Perilous Price of Oil, by George Soros - The New York Review of Books; ``prices in financial markets do not necessarily tend toward equilibrium...There is a two-way, reflexive interplay between biased market perceptions and the fundamentals, and that interplay can carry markets far from equilibrium. Every sequence of boom and bust, or bubble, begins with some fundamental change, such as the spread of the Internet, and is followed by a misinterpretation of the new trend in prices that results from the change. Initially that misinterpretation reinforces both the trend and the misinterpretation itself; but eventually the gap between reality and the market's interpretation of reality becomes too wide to be sustainable.''

books; New York Review; Oil; Perilous Price.

Fri 2008-07-04 00:00 EDT

Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis | Environment | The Guardian

Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis, by Aditya Chakrabortty | Environment | The Guardian; Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% says confidential World Bank report; report suppressed to avoid embarassing President George Bush; over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.

biofuel caused food crisis; environment; Guardian; Secret Report.

Sun 2008-05-04 00:00 EDT

A Special Report: The Right's America-Hating Preacher

by Robert Parry | The Smirking Chimp; Reverend Sun Myung Moon "has invested billions of dollars in financing the U.S. conservative movement and put fat wads of cash into the pockets of many prominent Republicans, including members of President George W. Bush's own family." Rev. Moon's lurid sex scandals, espionage, media empire, drug trafficking, gun-running

Right's America-Hating Preacher; special report.

Sun 2007-12-23 00:00 EST

Bear In Mind > Was George Stephanopoulos lying about the PPT?

Bear In Mind > Was George Stephanopoulos lying about the PPT? plunge protection team created by Fed in 1989; cf. Sprott "The Visible Hand" pdf

Bear; George Stephanopoulos lying; mind; PPT.

Fri 2007-12-14 00:00 EST

naked capitalism: Mr. Minsky Moment Calls for Rate Cuts

"he best we have is palliatives. We can either take the losses, as the US has repeatedly told third world countries in similar fixes to ours, or we can go the Japan route of socializing the cost of propping up bad businesses and deals, or we can expand the money supply considerably and let inflation eat away at the value of the debt overhang." bearish UBS economist George Magnus calls for rate cuts

Mr. Minsky Moment Calls; naked capitalism; rate CUTS.

Mon 2007-09-10 00:00 EDT

FT.com / Home UK / UK - The party's over when the music stops

by John Authers; George Magnus: market trying to transfer bad assets from "secondary sector" to banks

com; FT; home UK; music stopped; Party s; UK.

Thu 2002-10-03 00:00 EDT

The National Strategy For Homeland Security

-- george bush white house

Homeland Security; National strategy.