Mathematically, debts grow exponentially at compound interest. Banks recycle the interest into new loans, so debts grow exponentially, faster than the economy… — 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
Normally, if someone goes bankrupt, you wipe out the debt and get a fresh start. But that's not permitted with student loans.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Just like a house is worth whatever a bank's going to lend against it, an education is worth whatever the bank is… — 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
In housing you have jingle mail and you can walk away and leave the bank holding the bag. In the case of… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The aim of promoting low down payments is to push prices back up so that fewer houses are going to be in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Oil now, as a result of the Saudi production, is priced so low that there are not going to be new fracking… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Look at Ukraine. Its currency, the hernia, is plunging. The euro is really in a problem. Greece is problematic as to whether… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
If you have to pay about forty to forty-three percent of your income for housing, you also have to pay fifteen percent… — 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
Education is something that should not be organized on a for-profit basis, because in that case its purpose is not really to… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Seventy-eight percent of millennials are worried about not having enough good paying job opportunity to pay off their student loans. Seventy-four percent… — 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
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
The fact that you have government-guaranteed student loans has created a whole new sector in the American economy that didn't really exist… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Now, suppose that a homeowner puts down only 3% of their own money or 3.5% for the FHA. That means if prices… — 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
