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Sep 18 2025 Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson with Nima: Trump WRECKING the US economy
Excerpt from Michael’s short discussion on the modern history of balance of trade:
Other countries are preventing the US from solving its problem of draining money. They say; We will not accept any dollars that are just the monetization of your military spending to surround us with military bases. We’re going to… Continue reading -
Sep 10 2025 Michael Hudson: Trump’s Tariff Wars Hit Europe, Korea & Japan
[Note: Kindly pay attention, friends and colleagues. This needs to be widely distributed.]
Most discussion of the past week’s SCO and BRICS meetings understandably have focused on the rising strength of their multilateral alternative to America’s attempt to impose its unipolar world control under its own rules calling for other countries’ subordination to U.S. demands to… Continue reading -
Sep 06 2025 Michael Hudson: SCO and BRICS 2025
Eurasia’s Re-alignment in the face of Late Stage Barbarism
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s meetings in China last week (September 2 and 3) took a remarkable step forward in defining how the world will be dividing into two great blocks as Global Majority countries seek to free their economies not only from Donald Trump’s tariff chaos, but… Continue reading
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Aug 28 2025 Michael Hudson, Richard Wolff: NATO Shifts to New Fronts
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, August 21, 2025, and our friends Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson are back with us. Welcome back.
RICHARD WOLFF: Glad to be here.
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Michael, I want to start with you. You believe that the outcome of those two meetings between the United States and Russia, then Europeans coming… Continue reading
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Aug 21 2025 Richard D. Wolff and Michael Hudson: The U.S. just lost everything – End of American Power
With Nima on Dialogue Works, plus notes from Michael Hudson.
Michael added a note as the transcript for this video will take some time. Enjoy!
US Monopoly in AI strategy 2025
Any country’s trade with the United States can be weaponized by turning it into a dependency relationship.
For many years this is how U.S. strategists used its dominance… Continue reading
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Aug 19 2025 Michael Hudson: Passive Income Poodles
In Short Form: America will continue to export financial colonialism abroad — and deepen economic feudalism at home.
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… Continue reading
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Aug 17 2025 ‼️ Michael Hudson: Note 4 – Post Alaska Meeting: Trump getting ready for Zelensky and EU
Trump’s upcoming meeting with Zelensky to turn the tables on NATO
On Monday, August 18, Zelensky is coming to the White House. He has been prepped by his main anti-Russia sponsors, Merz, Starmer and Macron (along with von der Leyen and Finland’s president) in hope of using his popularity with Congressional Cold Warriors to deter Trump… Continue reading
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Aug 13 2025 ‼️ Michael Hudson: Note 3 on the planned Alaska meeting
Alaska Breakdown Looming
It looks like Trump has just announced that the Alaska meeting will be hostile and he is rejecting all Russian demands. He has threatened to walk away in the first two minutes if Russia does not agree to a cease fire on Ukraine’s terms. His intention is to threaten Russia with more U.S.… Continue reading
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Aug 12 2025 ‼️ Michael Hudson: Note 2 on the planned Alaska meeting
The discussion and the thinking continue: Note 1 is here
Putin started this year’s meetings with Trump by saying that the root of their problems is not Ukraine. Ukraine is only an arena in the fight by NATO (led by the US) against Russia, China, and their BRICS and Global South allies.
To solve the fighting in… Continue reading
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Aug 12 2025 ‼️ Michael Hudson: Note 1 on the planned Alaska meeting
It is a distortion of reality for the press to depict Russia as at war with Ukraine. It is at war with NATO; Ukraine is the battlefield for this war, the arena.
NATO uses the old police tactic of Good Cop (now ironically played by Trump for the dominant US side – that’s usually the lead… Continue reading
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Jul 29 2025 From Babylon to Wall Street: How Bankers Make You Poor
Michael Hudson and Jonathan Brown
Michael Hudson: My entire life, ever since I became an economist in, the 1960s was to realize that debt was the major problem that was going to be growing exponentially and stifling society. And it was clear that debt grew at compound interest faster than the economy was able to grow… Continue reading -
Jul 10 2025 Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: The US is BLIND to BRICS – And It’s Crushing America’s Future!
(00:06) – BRICS and U.S. Tariff Policies
(05:06) – BRICS’ Progress and Challenges
(10:03) – Impact of Tariffs on Global Trade
(15:06) – Economic Reforms for BRICS
(20:01) – Historical Parallels to Feudalism
(25:03) – Economic Rent and Foreign Control
(30:00) – Transition to Socialist Economic Models
(35:00) – Restructuring Economic Systems
(40:00) – Cost Accounting and Taxation
(45:03) – Shift in Global Economic… Continue reading -
Jun 18 2025 Michael Hudson: Understanding the Great Rip Off
Quarterly Q & A June 13, 2025
Please support Michael’s work by becoming a Patreon supporter.KARL FITZGERALD: Michael, it’s so great to see you. We’re all so enthusiastic about this meeting, so we’re glad you got here. Okay, let’s get into it.
MICHAEL HUDSON: We have seven minutes left to discuss the whole thing.
KARL FITZGERALD: Michael, I… Continue reading