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U.S. cold warriors have failed to prevent Russia, China, Iran, and other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) from obtaining their economic independence.…
Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson is an American economist, a professor of economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, and a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College. He is a former Wall Street analyst, political consultant, commentator, and journalist. You can read more of Hudson’s economic history on the Observatory.
Private equity funds and other Wall Street investors are buying up homes across the US and the West, driving up rent and…
Economist Michael Hudson describes how the Western powers designed the international financial, legal, and political system in a way that benefits North…
Opponents of the war with Iran say that the war is not in American interests, seeing that Iran does not pose any…
Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a…
The 1940s saw a series of movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, starting with the Road to Singapore in 1940. The…
Why does the United States so strongly support Israel? Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton interviewed economist Michael Hudson to explore the…
This year’s annual IMF/World Bank meetings in Morocco are the most explicitly confrontational yet by US/NATO diplomacy toward China and its fellow…
Transcript (What follows is a lightly edited transcript.) BEN NORTON: Hi, everyone. I’m Ben Norton, and this is Geopolitical Economy Report. Today,…
Economist Michael Hudson analyzes the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate, and Signature Bank, explaining the similarities to the 2008 financial crash…