Deflation is a leakage from this circular flow, to pay banks and the real estate, called the FIRE sector - finance, insurance… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The United States and Europe are in a state of debt deflation, where people and businesses have to pay banks instead of… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Debt deflation is when there's less money that people have to spend out of their paychecks on goods and services, because they're… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
We're in a chronic debt-deflation. There's no way we can recover unless you write down the debts. And that's what the IMF… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
More and more money is being extracted from of the production and consumption economy to pay the FIRE sector. That's what causes… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
When they say inflation is bad, deflation is good, what they mean is, more money for us 1% is good; we're all… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
When there's deflation, it means that although most markets are shrinking and people have less to spend, the 1% that hold the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The current U.S. and Eurozone depression isn't because of China. It's because of domestic debt deflation. Commodity prices and consumer spending are… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
People think of a business cycle, which is a boom followed by a recession and then automatic stabilizers revive the economy. But… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
So we are in for years of debt deflation. That means that people have to pay so much debt service for mortgages,… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
There are two definitions of deflation. Most people think of it simply as prices going down. But debt deflation is what happens… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share
This is not really currency that circulates. It's like the old joke about expensive vintage wine. Wine prices will go up and once in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share
Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains. — Michael Hudson Copy Share
If you end internet neutrality and permit mergers of the big information technology corporations, that's a form of rent seeking. It's part of today's… — Michael Hudson Copy Share
Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening… — Michael Hudson Copy Share
You could say that the vote to withdraw from Europe is, it's really a vote of the British middle class, the working class, to… — Michael Hudson Copy Share
Actually, high housing prices don't help the economy. They raise the cost of living. — Michael Hudson Copy Share
When economists speak of money, they neglect that all money and credit is debt. That is the essence of bookkeeping and accounting. There are… — Michael Hudson Copy Share
The United States and Europe are in a state of debt deflation, where people and businesses have to pay banks instead of spending their… — Michael Hudson Copy Share
On the flat tax, the more you compress the tax rates, the more you untax where the income is really made, at the top… — Michael Hudson Copy Share
Income is sucked upward to the creditors, who then foreclose on the assets of debtors. This shrinks tax revenue, forcing public budgets into deficit.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share
Debtor countries may postpone the inevitable by borrowing from the IMF or U.S. Treasury to buy out bondholders. This saves the latter from taking… — Michael Hudson Copy Share
No price is too high to pay to try to make the financial system go on a little bit longer. But ultimately it can't… — Michael Hudson Copy Share
