INDEX - ECONOMY
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SUBJECT: AMERICAN ECONOMICS

SOURCE: DAVID WARD sayjaz3@hotmail.com

POSTED: 5 DECEMBER 2008 - 11:30am HST

The New Kleptocracy

image above: Plundering America. Painting by Mark Bryan at artofmarkbryan.com

by David Ward on 4 December 2008

Dr. Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), 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 (1972 and 2003) and of The Myth of Aid (1971).

ISLET engages in research regarding domestic and international finance, national income and balance-sheet accounting with regard to real estate, and the economic history of the ancient Near East.


The New Kleptocracy (audio- mp3: 55 mb)- on Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's "Plan" passed by Congress on October 3, 2008. Interview on KPFA radio, October 8 and 15 2008 Guns and Butter

Transcripts:
Part One: The New Kleptocracy
Part Two: The Bailout’s New Financial Oligarchy


SUBJECT: AMERICAN ECONOMICS

SOURCE: DAVID WARD sayjaz3@hotmail.com

POSTED: 4 DECEMBER 2008 - 1:30pm HST

America: Host or Parasite

image above: Michael Hudson of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET)

by RevolutionCalling  on 3 September 2008 www.vodpod.com

Interview with economist, Dr. Michael Hudson. Dr. Hudson 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". 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. Visit his website at www.michael-hudson.com.

Interview with Dr. Michael Hudson:
America: Host or Parasite Interviews on KPFA radio (audio MP3)



see also:
Island Breath: Economic Tsunami 10/25/08
Island Breath: Kunstler - "What Now?" 10/20/08
Island Breath: Flight to Abstraction 10/18/08
Island Breath: On Borrowed Time 9/28/08
Island Breath: The US Debt Rattle 9/18/08
Island Breath: Desintegration of System 9/17/08
Island Breath: It's not all bad news 10/28/07


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