Financial Quote by Michael Hudson

“The problem is indeed that one party's debt finds its counterpart in some other party's savings. Not paying debts therefore involves annulling some other party's financial claims on the debtor.”

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Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.

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What's bad for the frackers usually is good for the rest of the world.

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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…

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Actually, high housing prices don't help the economy. They raise the cost of living.

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When economists speak of money, they neglect that all money and credit is debt. That is the essence of bookkeeping and accounting. There are…

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The United States and Europe are in a state of debt deflation, where people and businesses have to pay banks instead of spending their…

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