Wed 2008-12-10 00:00 EST
Michael Hudson: The Obama Letdown
Michael Hudson: The Obama Letdown; public infrastructure investment brings vast windfall gains for well-located real estate
Michael Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Sun 2008-11-23 00:00 EST
Jesse's Café Américain: The Dollar Trap: Michael Hudson's Incisive Characterization of Our Global Economic Dilemma
Jesse's Café Américain: The Dollar Trap: Michael Hudson's Incisive Characterization of Our Global Economic Dilemma
Dollar Trap; Global Economic Dilemma; Jesse's Café Américain; Michael Hudson's Incisive Characterization.
Sun 2008-11-23 00:00 EST
Michael Hudson: Bankers Shake Down Congress and the G-20
(CounterPunch); ``all markets are planned, and have been ever since calendars were developed...Most market structures throughout history have been organized in a way that provides the vested interests with a free lunch. This remains the essence of post-feudal capitalism or as some have expressed it, corporativism.''
Wed 2008-11-12 00:00 EST
The End of Wall Street's Boom - National Business News - Portfolio.com
The End of Wall Street's Boom, by Michael Lewis, Portfolio.com; Meredith Whitney; Steve Eisman; ``...you must assume they are lying to you. They will always lie to you''
com; ending; National Business News; portfolio; Wall Street s boom.
Fri 2008-11-07 00:00 EST
Fed Hires Bear Stearns Risk Boss
by John Carney; ormer Bear Stearns chief risk officer Michael Alix; ``he was the guy on the mast charged with yelling "iceberg" just before the titantic introduced its bow to a floating hunk of ice''
Wed 2008-09-03 00:00 EDT
How the Chicago Boyz Wrecked the Economy: An Interview with Michael Hudson
by Mike Whitney; "what they're trying to do is to roll back the Enlightenment, roll back the moral philosophy and social values of classical political economy and its culmination in Progressive Era legislation, as well as the New Deal institutions...So what you find to be a violation of traditional values is a re-assertion of pre-industrial, feudal values. The economy is being set back on the road to debt peonage."
Tue 2008-09-02 00:00 EDT
The Newer Deal: The Path to a Democratic Supermajority | The New America Foundation
The Newer Deal: The Path to a Democratic Supermajority, by Michael Lind (Salon, 2008-08-15) | The New America Foundation; ``Social conservatives, having lost the culture war, should be offered not only a truce but also an opportunity to join a broad economic campaign for a middle-class America, as many of them did between 1932 and 1968. When pro-choicers and pro-lifers unite in cheering the public investment and living wage planks at the convention of the neo-Roosevelt party, we will know that the political era that began in 1968 is truly and finally over.''
Democratic supermajority; New America Foundation; Newer Deal; path.
Sun 2008-07-06 00:00 EDT
``The System is Broken. We're Entering a Two Economy Society'': An Interview with Michael Hudson
"The System is Broken. We're Entering a Two Economy Society": An Interview with Michael Hudson, by Mike Whitney; democracy precedes oligarchy; reframing tax policy; fraudulent conveyance applied to minimize foreclosure; "Credit is a product that's almost free to create. Its main cost of production is the lobbying expense to buy Congressional support."
broken; Economy Society; enters; interview; Michael Hudson; Systems.
Thu 2008-05-29 00:00 EDT
Interfluidity :: If you think it's the "index speculators"...
debunking Michael Master's testimony regarding commodity speculation; tacit cartel on the producer side, accommodating speculative futures prices, while managing spot supply? Steve Randy Waldman
Wed 2008-05-21 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Berserker Funds in Commodities
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Berserker Funds in Commodities; Michael Masters testifies on commodity speculation; "f investors (or whatever) held a stable currency with accurately rated (rather than bogus) investment grade financial instruments, with a positive real rate of return, against a truthful inflation number, would they be loaded to the gills with everything from grains to oil to cattle?"
Berserkers Funds; Commodities; economic; Market; watch; winter.
Wed 2008-04-16 00:00 EDT
Asia Times Online :: Asian news and current affairs
The rise of the new energy world order, by Michael T. Klare; "the price of oil will dominate our lives and power will reside in the hands of those who control its global distribution"
Mon 2007-07-30 00:00 EDT
Conservatives can't compete in the marketplace of ideas... | Campaign for America's Future
Conservatives can't compete in the marketplace of ideas..., by Rick Perlstein 2007-05-29; Michael Baroody; National Association of Manufacturers (NAM); John Birch Society | Campaign for America's Future
America s future; campaign; compete; conservative; idea; marketplace.