Most of these charges that people pay are economically unnecessary. There's no real cost behind them. There's no real value behind them.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The establishment Trump talked about wasn’t really Wall Street. He said, “When Washington got rich.” Bernie Sanders would have said, “When Wall… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
A stand in is a politician who can deliver her constituency to her Wall Street backers. That's what a politician does in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
America needs an ineffective president. That's much better than an effective president that's going to go to war with Russia, that's going… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
When Mr.Trump says he wants to help all Americans, he means he wants to help all Americans in the 1% by really… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The ideological foundation of today's business schools is that economic control should be shifted out of government hands into those of financial… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
People think of a parasite as simply taking money, taking blood out of a host or taking money out of the economy.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The result of this anti-classical revolution you had just before World War I was that today, almost all the economic growth in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The underlying strategy of the Fed is to tell people, "Do you want your money to lose value in the bank, or… — 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
