The Narrative Battlefield| michael-hudson.com
Trump tells Fox “make people love Israel again.” Michael Hudson argues Gaza is NATO’s war and the real fight is the “ninth front”: control of the narrative—platforms, algorithms, donors, and universities. Richard Wolff reads a broader political turn: Israel losing hearts and minds, Europe recognizing Palestine, and U.S. empire overreach. Together they trace money, media, and power—AIPAC, Silicon Valley, campus repression, and what comes next. The post The Narrative Battlefield f...| Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson on the balance-of-payments illusion: how military outlays, foreign aid, and transfer pricing let the U.S. earn without paying—under dollar hegemony. The post How A Nation Makes Money in Their Sleep first appeared on Michael Hudson.| Michael Hudson
.. pits Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff’s analyses against U.S. overreach: tariffs that stall reshoring, austerity for social services, and militarized domestic control - asking whether Washington escalates toward wider war or negotiates a retreat from a fading unipolar order. The post Libertarian Fantasy, Police State Reality first appeared on Michael Hudson.| Michael Hudson
Two London-based Master’s students in Development Economics speak with Professor Michael Hudson about rentier capitalism, financialisation, and why Britain’s “stability” privileges creditors over productive growth. From Ricardo and the Corn Laws to Thames Water and the City of London, Hudson argues GDP mislabels transfer payments as output, central banks serve commercial banks, and the EU functions as NATO’s economic arm. The post Stability for Whom? first appeared on Michael Hudson.| Michael Hudson
Who plans the economy—the public through elected institutions, or private finance through the Fed, markets, and lobbying? We trace how “central bank independence” became regulatory capture, why asset inflation replaced industrial policy, and what genuine democratic planning would prioritize: wages, production, and public investment over bubbles. The post Who Plans the Economy? first appeared on Michael Hudson.| Michael Hudson
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi everybody. Today is Thursday, September 18, 2025, and our friends Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff are back with us. Welcome back. RICHARD WOLFF: Glad to be here. NIMA ALKHORSHID: Michael, you told me that you watched my talk with Scott Ritter about the defense budget, and all of that. What's your| Michael Hudson
The Fascist Protection Racket: Tribute States| michael-hudson.com
Europe has traded self-sufficiency for dependence, submitting to what Michael Hudson calls a fascist protection racket. Allies are transformed into tribute states, forced to pay tariffs or surrender industry. While BRICS nations insulate themselves through self-reliance, Europe accepts deindustrialisation and insecurity under NATO—sacrificing its long-term prosperity for short-term obedience to Washington’s demands. The post The Fascist Protection Racket: Tribute States first appeared on ...| Michael Hudson
Trump’s policies are destroying key elements of U.S. economic prosperity| Michael Hudson
Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson trace a U.S. turn to scapegoating and tariffs as stopgaps for a weakening, polarized economy. From ICE raids and drone strikes to secret investment “deals” pressuring Japan and tariff threats on Europe and India, they argue Washington is converting allies into tributaries while BRICS builds a mixed-economy alternative. The result: a collapsing left/right map, rising class politics, and a world split between finance capitalism and productive development. Th...| Michael Hudson
China’s SCO summit marked a decisive turn: BRICS countries are consolidating trade, payments, and energy ties to insulate themselves from Western financialization and militarization. With Power of Siberia 2 redirecting Russian gas to Asia and India jolted toward BRICS by U.S. tariffs, a dual-system world is hardening. Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff unpack dedollarization, gold’s surge, and why the fight isn’t “capitalism vs socialism” so much as socialism vs finance capitalism. Th...| Michael Hudson
Trump’s latest economic offensive targets U.S. allies in Europe, Korea, and Japan with tariff hikes, investment shakedowns, and protection-money demands. Germany’s machinery exports face an “existential crisis,” Hyundai’s U.S. plant saw mass deportations, and Japan was forced into a $550 billion payout under threat of commercial chaos. As SCO and BRICS expand alternatives, America’s coercion of its own allies risks sparking nationalist backlash, de-dollarization, and a realignment...| Michael Hudson
Hudson & Wolff: NATO’s Defeat in Ukraine| michael-hudson.com
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, August 14, 2025, and our friends, Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson, are back with us. Welcome back. | Michael Hudson
The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance| Michael Hudson
Economist Michael Hudson warns that the U.S. has morphed into a “free lunch economy,” where wealth flows not from production but from unearned rents and financial gains. Wall Street landlords like Blackstone buy up homes, driving rents higher while families face stagnant wages and rising debt. What was once industrial capitalism has become finance capitalism, hollowing out the economy and enriching a rentier elite. The result is growing inequality at home and financial colonialism abroad....| Michael Hudson
In a sweeping discussion on the decline of U.S. global dominance, economists Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff dissect the dollar’s downward slide, the BRICS challenge, and the blowback from Trump’s tariff-driven policies. From de-dollarization and foreign divestment in U.S. Treasuries to the hollowing out of American industry, they expose how geopolitical overreach, financial speculation, and ineffective military exports are accelerating the empire’s unraveling. With allies bearing the ...| Michael Hudson
While European voters were left in the dark, the EU Commission handed Trump everything he wanted — in exchange for a war Europe can't win. The post Von der Leyen’s Surrender first appeared on Michael Hudson.| Michael Hudson
Financial analysis of a world dominated by the FIRE sector - Finance, Insurance and Real Estate. Beware the monopolist.| Michael Hudson | On finance, real estate and the powers of neoliberalism
Super Imperialism. The Economic Strategy of Americ ….| Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson’s new book Temples of Enterprise is now available.| Michael Hudson
