States and cities have been convinced to lower the property tax burden and to take an income tax and a sales tax and the worst, most anti-labour, tax of all—your value added tax. Your value added tax is intruding onto the market and shrinking it and preventing you from buying the goods that you produce.
Federal Reserve System
An interview with Michael Hudson published on the Russian website Terra America (TA). What is the place of the Federal Reserve System in the American financial and economic structure? Prior to the Federal Reserve’s founding in 1913, U.S. monetary policy was conducted by the Treasury. Like the Fed, it had district sub-treasuries that performed nearly all the financial functions that the Fed later took over: providing credit to move the crops in autumn, managing government debt, and so forth. But after the severe 1907 financial crisis, a National Monetary Commission was reformed. Under the then-Republican administration, it recognized a need for more active government intervention to prevent future financial crises. It also recognized the desirability of moving away from the ...
Film: Real Estate 4 Ransom
Michael Hudson features in this 40 min documentary on the role property speculation and public finance had on this Great Recession. What role does economics itself have to blame for policy failure? More details Real Estate 4 Ransom from Real Estate 4 Ransom on Vimeo.
MMT as the Austerity Alternative
Michael appeared on Guns and Butter alongside Assoc Professor Stephanie Kelton in Rimini. Listen to the interview aired March 7th. Make sure you read Michael's piece on Our Very Oscar Night in Rimini for more background. "There IS An Alternative To European Austerity: Modern Money Theory (MMT)" with Stephanie Kelton and Michael Hudson in Rimini, Italy. Difference between sovereign and non-sovereign money; what is money; fiat money; gold standard; fixed exchange rates; the Euro; difference between central banks and commercial banks; deflation and inflation; financial war against the economy; credit supply and asset prices; bank lending and capital investment; debt deflation stage and austerity stage of finance capitalism. Show details Subscribe to Bonnie Faulkner's Guns & Butter podcast: Itunes > Advanced > Subscribe to this podcast > paste > http://kpfa.org/podcast/pod.php?show_id=34 Transcript via Media Roots GUNS AND BUTTER ...
Jobs Commentary
Michael appeared on RT news to discuss the latest unemployment figures amongst other current affairs issues.
Keiser Hudson
Michael appears about half way through.
