The economy is being run primarily by the banks for their own interest. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I think we're in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The financial time frame always has been short-term. Projects with long-term paybacks are cut back, because CEOs and financial managers simply want… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
You could say that the vote to withdraw from Europe is, it's really a vote of the British middle class, the working… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Governments create money and spend it into the economy by running budget deficits. The paper currency in your pocket is technically a… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Today, people are having to spend so much of their money, to acquire a house and to get an education that they… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
When you say "bank," a bank is a building, a set of computers and chairs and things. The bankers are the people… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
If bankers can push the loans and make more profits for the bank, they get paid higher bonuses. They often also get… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
To save the banks from making losses that would wipe out their net worth, you'll have to get rid of Social Security.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
When people are running up more and more debt for housing, they call that "real wealth." It exposes what's wrong in the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
That's the problem with the financial sector. Banks and the financial sector live in the short run, not the long run. In… — 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
The bank's product is debt, because the banks want to make sure that they can get paid for the debt. But ultimately… — 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
