Tag: michael hudson

• What We’ve Been Up To

  I recently got to write a post for Dusted Magazine‘s Listed series about ten records & books I’m fond of.  It’s not a Top 10 of All Time, for reasons stated in the opener, more like what I wanted to write about on that occasion: Art Melody, Kari Ka Kian Fô Baaba Maal & Mansour…

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  August 19, 2018

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Education, John Davis and The Cicadas, Music, New Releases, Work In Progress

  #InThisTogether, Art Melody, Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck, Dusted Magazine, Else Marie Pade, Faust, Fela Kuti, Franco & l”Orchestre OK Jazz, Gary Stewart, Global Fracture, Hossein Alizadeh, I.T.T., Jacob Kirkegaard, Jacobin magazine, Kayhan Kalhor, Kristin Beller, May 16th, Michael Denning, michael hudson, NCAE, Noise Uprising, North Carolina, Organize2020, Rumba on the River, Secret Museum of Mankind, Susumu Yakota, Todd Warren, Tony Allen, Unions, Valerie Warren, Yazoo Records, Zombie

• Pretty Bubbles Turning Into Grime

  Michael Hudson has a new book out so I thought it was high time I posted some thoughts I’ve been meaning to write up about his last one, The Bubble and Beyond. I’ve posted before about Hudson’s 1973 classic Superimperialism, whose analysis of the economic strategy of American Empire was followed by a terrific 1977…

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  September 13, 2015

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book Reviews, Corporate Welfare, Current Events, Debt, Economics, History, Politics

  american empire, Bill Black, Black Agenda Report, Bob Pollin, Book Reviews, Brown University, Cambridge, Capitalism, Cold War, corporate welfare, Counterpunch, Economics, Global Fracture, Harvard University, History, Imperialism, Jedediah Purdy, Joseph Stiglitz, Karl Marx, michael hudson, Mission of Burma, MIT, Nick Drake, Paul Krugman, Paul Volcker, Superimperialism, Syriza, Television Personalities, The Bubble & Beyond, The Fall, The Last Poets, The New York Times, The Real News Network, UMKC, Vijay Prashad, Washington Consensus, Yanis Varoufakis

• Corporate Welfare.2: Subsidizing Sallie Mae

  Continuing this series on the publicly funded nature of so called private enterprise in this country…. Sometimes subsidies know how to disguise themselves.  Blackwater’s defense contracts bring them direct cash payments for no-bid contracts.  But student lenders like Sallie Mae get their government cheese in the form of regulations on interest rates.  In a double…

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  July 3, 2013

  Debt, Economics, Politics, Series of posts

  Barack Obama, Capitalism, David Graeber, Doug Henwood, Economics, Elizabeth Warren, Left media, michael hudson, Neoliberalism, Politics, profit margins, Socialism, Spain, The Real News Network, Washington Consensus

• Who Really Wins on Super Bowl Sunday?

  “America has succeeded in forcing other nations to pay for its wars on a systematic basis, something never before accomplished by any nation in history .” – Michael Hudson I’d like to recommend two books I just finished reading, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire by Chalmers Johnson and Super Imperialism:  The Origins…

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  January 14, 2012

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Film, History, Politics, Sports

  american empire, chalmers johnson, globe japan, michael hudson, profit margins