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Donald Trump’s tariff policy has thrown markets into turmoil among his allies and enemies alike. This anarchy reflects the fact that his major aim was not really tariff policy, but simply to cut income taxes on the wealthy, by replacing them with tariffs as the main source of government revenue. Extracting economic concessions from other... Read More
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, April 3rd, 2025, and our friends, Michael Hudson and Richard Wolfer back with us. Welcome back. Let's talk about the Liberation Day and the new tariffs on each and every country on this planet. And here is what the press secretary, the White House press secretary said about... Read More
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, March 13, 2025, and our friends, Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff, are back with us. Welcome back. RICHARD WOLFF: Thank you. Glad to be here. NIMA ALKHORSHID: Let's get started with the negotiations between, the first round of negotiations, between the Trump team, the Trump administration, and the... Read More
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, March 6, 2025, and our friends Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson are back with us. Welcome back. RICHARD WOLFF: Glad to be here. MICHAEL HUDSON: Good to be here. NIMA ALKHORSHID: Let's get started, Michael, with the article in the Financial Times in which it says that three... Read More
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, February 27, 2025 and our friends Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson are back with us. Welcome back. RICHARD WOLFF: Thank you. Glad to be here. NIMA ALKHORSHID: Let's get started with what's going on in Germany. People wanted some sort of change in terms of domestic and foreign... Read More
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi everybody, today is Thursday, February 20, 2025, and our friends Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson are back with us. Welcome back. RICHARD WOLFF: Glad to be here. NIMA ALKHORSHID: Let's get started, Michael, with your recent article about the price of gold and how the United States is trying to manage that.... Read More
Why has the price of gold been increasing so fast, breaking records? Economist Michael Hudson explains the politics of the precious metal, and the dynamics of the US dollar system. Transcript (Introduction) BEN NORTON: The price of gold has been skyrocketing. Since 2018, the price of gold has nearly tripled. This has caused a big... Read More
Donald Trump’s tariffs could destabilize the global economy, warns economist Michael Hudson. US protectionist policies could cause financial crises, as many currencies depreciate and countries can’t earn the dollars needed to pay their foreign debts. Transcript (Introduction) BEN NORTON: Donald Trump is threatening to impose tariffs on countries all around the world, including the top... Read More
The Road to Chaos The 1940s saw a series of movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, starting with the Road to Singapore in 1940. The plot was always similar. Bing and Bob, two fast-talking con men or song-and-dance partners, would find themselves in a scrape in some country, and Bing would get out of... Read More
Trump has promoted a number of plans to make America strong – at other countries’ expense. Given his “we win; you lose” motto, some of his plans would produce the opposite effect of what he imagines. That would not be much of a change in U.S. policy. But I suggest that Hudson’s Law may be... Read More
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today's Thursday, January 2nd, 2025, and our friend Michael Hudson is back with us. Welcome back, Michael. MICHAEL HUDSON: Good to be back. NIMA ALKHORSHID: Michael, let's get started with the economic key to 2025. What would that be, in your opinion? MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, I've been thinking what a good... Read More
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody, today is Wednesday, November 27th, and Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff are here with us. Welcome back, Michael and Richard. MICHAEL HUDSON: Glad to be back. RICHARD WOLFF: Glad to be here. NIMA ALKHORSHID: Let's get started with what's going on between Russia and the United States in Ukraine. We had... Read More
DANNY HAIFONG: Welcome, everyone. It's your host, Danny Haiphong, and I am here for another live stream this afternoon. I wanted to begin by saying that we are going to center the theme of today's discussion on the decline and the fall of the U.S. empire and the economic roots of this as we see... Read More
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, November 21st, and we have Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff with us here. Welcome back. RICHARD WOLFF: Thank you, Nima. Glad to be here. MICHAEL HUDSON: Yep! NIMA ALKHORSHID: And let's get started with the breaking news about Netanyahu and Gallant. We've learned that ICC, we've learned about... Read More
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Today is Thursday, October 31st, and we're having Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff with us to talk about the legacy of the Biden administration for the next president of the United States. And let's start with Richard. How do you find right now [the] two important conflicts, one in Ukraine and the other... Read More
Hi, everybody, today is Thursday October 24, 2024, and we’re having Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson with us to talk about the BRICS Summit in Kazan. Let’s start with Michael. Michael, what was important about this summit? MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, it was important not for coming up with solutions, but just to lay out what... Read More
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Today is Thursday, October 17th, and we're having Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson with us to talk about U.S. foreign policy. The title of this video today, Richard and Michael, is over the world, the end of international law. We know whenever they're talking about the foreign policy of the United States, they're... Read More
NIMA: So nice to have you back, Richard and Michael. And let me just manage this. And let's get started with the main question here that would be: Why is the United States not interested in putting an end to the conflict in the Middle East and in Ukraine? Which we know in both of... Read More
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 34th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our time. I'm Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I'm Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: And working behind the scenes to bring you our show every fortnight are our host, Ben Norton, our videographer, Paul... Read More
NIMA: So nice to have you, Michael. And let's get started with an article in Bloomberg, it says that the United States is concerned about the strengthening ties between Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. And Richard, should they be concerned about this? RICHARD WOLFF: I think so, yes, they should be concerned. Whatever in... Read More
So nice to have you back on this podcast, Dr. Stein and Michael Hudson. Really great to be here. It's an honor to be with both of you. And let's get started with the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Dr. Stein. I want to know what is your reaction to that. Just briefly,... Read More
Richard D. Wolff and Michael Hudson, Dialogue Works "This transcript has been edited and formatted for clarity, readability, and flow. Minor typographical and grammatical changes have been made to improve coherence." NIMA: So nice to have you back, Michael, on this podcast. We're waiting for Richard to join us. Let's get started with the debate... Read More
NIMA: So nice to have you, Michael, and Richard on again on this podcast. And let's get started with the current situation of the economy of the United States. And the question is, Michael, to you, is the United States rapidly approaching bankruptcy? MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, when Republicans and now the Democrats, ever since Obama,... Read More
Robinson: Michael, you've been studying the history of debt and the collapse of civilizations for many decades now, at least going back to your time at Harvard’s Peabody Museum. I'm wondering if you were initially interested in this topic because of its historical interest or more because of its implications for the present.[1] Michael: I... Read More
DANNY HAIPHONG: Welcome, everyone. Good afternoon. This is your host, Danny Haiphong. As you can see, I am joined by two very special guests, both returning guests on the program, although it’s been too long for both. We have renowned economist Michael Hudson, prolific author. You can find his website in the video description. And... Read More
Luca Placidi: Welcome, everybody. It is a great pleasure and honor to have with us today Professor Michael Hudson. For those who still do not know him, Michael is a professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and he is a researcher at the Levi Economics Institute at Bard College. Just to mention... Read More
NIMA ROSTAMI ALKHORSHID: Michael, let’s get started with the SCO summit. And right after that, we’re having the NATO summit. It seems that NATO is fighting on behalf of the United States to try to preserve the U.S. unipolar hegemony over Eurasia and the Global South, isn’t it? MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, for the last few... Read More
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 30th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our time. I'm Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I'm Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: And working behind the scenes to bring you our show every fortnight are our host, Ben Norton, our videographer, Paul... Read More
The July 4 landslide defeat of the neoliberal pro-war British Conservatives by the neoliberal pro-war Labour Party poses the question of just what the media mean when they describe the elections and political alignments throughout Europe in terms of center-right and center-left traditional parties challenged by nationalist neo-fascists. Political differences between Europe’s centrist parties are... Read More
The Wall Street Journal ran a revealing op-ed today (June 14, 2024) by Paul D. Ryan, “Crypto Could Stave off a U.S. Debt Crisis.” Mr. Ryan, libertarian Republican House Speaker 2015-2019 and now at the right-wing American Enterprise Institute, writes that: “Stablecoins backed by dollars provide demand for U.S. public debt and a way to... Read More
NIMA ROSTAMI ALKHORSHID: Today we’re going to talk with Dr. Stein, 2024 presidential candidate in the United States and her policy advisor, Professor Michael Hudson. And we’re going to talk about Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel, and domestic policy in the United States. And so let’s get started with the conflict in Ukraine. Michael, how do you... Read More
The recent Congressional hearings leading to a bloodbath of university presidents brings back memories from my teen-age years in the 1950s when everyone’s eyes were glued to the TV broadcast of the McCarthy hearings. And the student revolts incited by vicious college presidents trying to stifle academic freedom when it opposes foreign unjust wars awakens... Read More
ANIA: Hello, everyone. Welcome back to my channel. Today I have with me for the fourth time, I’m still counting, a very, very special guest, one of the best professors in economics and financial analysts in the world. And I’m very glad we are reconnecting with Professor Hudson again. I want to start this live... Read More
ADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 26th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our times. I'm Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I'm Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: And working behind the scenes to bring you our show every fortnight are our host, Ben Norton, our videographer, Paul... Read More
GLENN DIESEN: Welcome, my name is Glenn Diesen and I’m joined by Alexander Mercouris and Professor Michael Hudson. Welcome to the both of you. Today, I really wanted to discuss the decoupling or fragmentation of the international economy and also now the alternative economic architecture emerging, I would say primarily in the east, but also... Read More
The dismantling of German industry since 2022 is collateral damage in America’s geopolitical war to isolate China, Russia and allied countries whose rising prosperity and self-sufficiency is viewed as an unacceptable challenge to U.S. hegemony. To prepare for what promises to be a long and costly fight, U.S. strategists made a pre-emptive move in 2022... Read More
Robinson: Michael, I read in your book, Killing the Host, that you decided to become an economist after meeting one named Terrence McCarthy, who explained to you why financial crises tend to occur in the autumn after crops are harvested. And this was an interesting question. What’s the story and why was it so compelling... Read More
Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss the rhetoric and reality of Bidenomics, and how good US President Joe Biden really was for the economy. Transcript RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 23rd Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our time. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL... Read More
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 22nd Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our times. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: And working behind the scenes to bring you this show every fortnight are our host, Ben Norton, our videographer, Paul Graham,... Read More
HAIPHONG: Welcome, everyone. Welcome to the stream. It’s Danny Haiphong, your host. As you can see, I’m joined by the renowned economist and author, Professor Michael Hudson. You can find his website in the video description. Please do hit the like button as we begin. That helps boost this stream. And, of course, you can... Read More
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 21st geopolitical economy hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our time. Welcome also to a new year that promises to be nothing but rocky, so let’s help rock it in the right direction. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson.... Read More
JM: Hello, and welcome to another episode of India and Global Left. Today, we have with us the economist Michael Hudson. Michael, welcome back to India and Global Left. MH: Good to be here. JM: Last time you came here, the show went very well. We have got almost 100,000 views and a lot of... Read More
Robinson: I’m from Chicago, and when I saw that you went to the University of Chicago Lab School, which I know quite well, and then the University of Chicago, which I also know quite well—and when the Chicago School of Economics was promoting the free market and probably in its heyday….I immediately found myself wondering:... Read More
ANIA: Hello everyone, welcome back to my channel. It looks like we are live and we are a few seconds before time, so a little bit better than Swiss precision. Today I have for the second time a very, very special guest. Many of you have been anticipating this conversation with Professor Michael Hudson, who... Read More
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 20th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our time. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: Well, it’s happening again. Reports of the death of neoliberalism are once again proliferating. Just take a look at the... Read More
Michael Hudson & Richard D. Wolff with Nima Rostami Alkhorshid Dialogue works (Nima): What's your opinion on the China's economy right now? it getting better? It's getting worse. Is it collapsing? Michael? Michael Hudson: Well, what they say is getting worse is the financial situation. China has sort of let a hundred flowers bloom 30... Read More
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 19th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the program where we discuss the evolving political and geopolitical economy of our time. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: And we bring you this program with the help of our host, Ben Norton, our videographer Paul Graham, and... Read More
Dr. Michael Hudson is an American economist, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, former Wall Street analyst, political consultant, commentator and journalist. Dr. Steve Keen is an Australian economist and author. A post-Keynesian, he criticizes neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and... Read More
GLENN DIESEN: Welcome to today’s program. My name is Glenn Diesen. I’m a professor at the University of Southeastern Norway. With me is my colleague Alexander Mercouris from the very informative and popular Duran. The guest today is none other than the excellent Michael Hudson, a very renowned economist. He’s written brilliant books, which I... Read More
Michael 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 The Bubble and Beyond (2012), Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1968 & 2003), Trade, Development and Foreign Debt (1992 & 2009) 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.
Michael acts as an economic advisor to governments worldwide including Iceland, Latvia and China on finance and tax law.
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