For many people, the mortgages they took out before 2008 are so high that they would be better off walking away from… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The worst loophole is what Donald Trump has talked about: the tax deductibility of interest. If you let real estate owners or… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
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 biggest industrial sector next to real estate is oil, gas and other mineral resources. They don't report any taxable income, because… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The most serious problems lie in the financial sphere, where the economy's debt overhead has grown more rapidly than the 'real' economy's… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
A derivative is a bet on whether a stock, or a bond or a real estate asset, is going to go up… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Almost all of the demand for oil that suddenly pushed prices up was speculative demand. People began to speculate not only in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
In real estate you can avoid ever having to pay a capital gains tax, decade after decade, century after century. When you… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Since 2008 you've had the largest bond market rally in history, as the Federal Reserve flooded the economy with quantitative easing to… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The real estate interests and banks are in a kind of symbiosis. They're the largest-growing part of the economy. This is the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces. But a growing… — 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 Image
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 Image
Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Nothing could be better for the economy than to get rid of fracking. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
What's bad for the frackers usually is good for the rest of the world. — 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 class, to… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Actually, high housing prices don't help the economy. They raise the cost of living. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
