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We’re Headed for a Depression
• July 18, 2026
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Radhika Desai: Hello and welcome to the 80th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the socialist and anti-imperialist conversation that illuminates the fast-changing political economy and geopolitical economy of our time. I’m Radhika Desai, and you’re watching Radhika Desai, Geopolitical Economist. Today’s Geopolitical Economy Hour is our regular one with Michael Hudson, which we do every fortnight. Welcome,... Read More
How US Slave Interests Stifled US Monetary and Banking Policy Until 1913
• July 4, 2026
• 1,300 Words • 29 Comments • Reply
The role of slave states in shaping the U.S. Constitution goes far beyond slavery itself. I want to discuss the distinctively American effect of this states-rights policy for banking and financial policy. The main aim of the slave states was to block federal power – via the rule of the democratic majority – to take... Read More
Greenspan Ran the Fed for 18 Years and Left an Economic Time Bomb
• July 4, 2026
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Radhika Desai: Hello and welcome to the 76th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the conversation that illuminates the fast-changing political economy and geopolitical economy of our times from a socialist and anti-imperialist point of view, the point of view, that is, of the world majority. I’m Radhika Desai, and you’re watching Radhika Desai: Geopolitical Economist. Before we... Read More
Iran Defeated the US Empire. What Happens Next?
• June 20, 2026
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Radhika Desai: Hello and welcome to the 74th Geopolitical Economy Hour. The conversation that illuminates the fast-changing political economy and geopolitical economy of our times from a socialist and anti-imperialist point of view. The point of view, that is, of the world’s majority. I’m Radhika Desai and you’re watching Radhika Desai, Geopolitical Economist. Please like,... Read More
Iran Humiliates Trump: The Defeat He Can’t Escape
• June 11, 2026
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Nima Alkhorshid: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, June 11th, 2026, and our dear friends, Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson, are here with us. Welcome back, Richard. Mike. Michael Hudson: Good to be here right now. And what an important time. Nima Alkhorshid: Yeah, exactly. What has happened last night was a confrontation between the United... Read More
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Debts That Cannot Be Paid Won’t Be
• June 8, 2026
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For an issue organised around the question “What is to be done?”, R. C. J. Cranstoun spoke with Michael Hudson about debt, rentier capitalism, and the geopolitical fracture around sanctions, energy, and the dollar system. What follows is a lightly edited transcript. CRANSTOUN: The theme of this issue is “What is to be done?” Before... Read More
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Geopathology and the Econopathology Behind It
• June 6, 2026
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America’s 2025 National Security Strategy calls for gaining control of the world’s oil trade. Toward this end, Donald Trump’s Oil War aims at depriving Iran, Iraq and its neighboring OPEC countries of their sovereignty over whom they may sell their oil to, just as he has done to Venezuela. There is no remorse for the... Read More
Imminent Economic Catastrophe – War, Oil Crisis & Bond Market Panic
• May 20, 2026
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Lena Petrova: Welcome, everybody! Thank you so much for joining us. I’m Lena Petrova with a new episode of World Affairs in Context. Today, I have the privilege of welcoming back to the program a renowned American economist, Dr. Michael Hudson. Michael is a distinguished research professor, a prolific author, a former Wall Street financial... Read More
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The 2026 World Financial Crisis
• May 18, 2026
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Trump is threatening to escalate his war against Iran, and Iran is prepared to destroy the oil production and transport capacity of Arab OPEC countries that do not act to stop the U.S. attack. The result will be to deepen the world depression that already is underway. Yet the stock market has continued to rise,... Read More
Did Xi Really Trade Iran for Taiwan?
Conversation with Ali Alizadeh, Jedaal TV
• May 15, 2026
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AA – The American readout of the Trump–Xi meeting claims that Xi explicitly agreed that the Strait of Hormuz must remain open, that there must be no tolls, that China opposes the militarisation of the Strait, that China will buy more American oil to reduce its dependence on Hormuz, and that Iran must never have... Read More
Economic Management in War
and • May 6, 2026
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IP – I was talking about the old adage that “wars are won by economies not armies”, and I think the war in Iran has slightly refined that phrase, that “wars are won by economics not military force”. What’s your view? MH – my view is probably in agreement with what the military is said... Read More
Iran War Ignites Global Financial Armageddon
• April 25, 2026
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Welcome back. We are joined today by Professor Michael Hudson to discuss the devastating global economic struggle, which is resulting from the Iran war and also essentially what is becoming then a, you can say a competition for the economic world order that will follow. Well, whatever this world order, whenever this world order comes... Read More
US Economy Is Based on a Ponzi Scheme
• April 23, 2026
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BEN NORTON: There are more and more signs that we may be on the precipice of another major financial crisis. The former CEO of the Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs warned in an interview on Bloomberg that he can smell another financial crisis on the horizon. Where exactly could this crisis come from? Well, some... Read More
The Blockade Stage of Trump’s Absurdities
• April 18, 2026
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Radhika: Hello and welcome to the 59th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the conversation that illuminates the fast-changing political economy and geopolitical economy of our times. I’m Radhika Desai, and you are watching Radhika Desai: Geopolitical Economist. The mounting absurdity of Trump’s war on Iran has entered a new, even more rarefied phase with the announcement of... Read More
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Postponing the World’s Financial Winter - For How Long?
Iran’s MAD Standoff with the Rest of the World
• April 17, 2026
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Full PDF Announcing that “A whole civilization will die tonight,” Donald Trump threatened on April 7, 2026 to destroy “every bridge in Iran” and “every power plant … burning, exploding, and never to be used again.” His intention to continue committing war crimes is driving the world toward a Financial Winter as devastating as the... Read More
World Will Not Be the Same After the Iran War
• April 1, 2026
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Glenn Diesen: Welcome back. Today we are joined by Professor Michael Hudson to discuss how the war against Iran is impacting the global economy. So thank you as always for coming back on the program. Michael Hudson: Well I’m glad to be back Glenn. Glenn Diesen: So we often discuss the deteriorating state of the... Read More
The Iran War Changes Everything
• March 29, 2026
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The US-Israeli war on Iran is transforming the geopolitical order, and could even unleash a global economic crisis. The conflict has caused the largest oil shock in history, disrupting global markets and driving up fuel and food prices. To better understand the implications for the world, Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton interviewed economist Michael... Read More
How the Global Crisis Will Unfold
• March 27, 2026
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NIKA Hello, everyone. We are very happy to invite back Michael Hudson and Professor Steve Keen to the David Graeber Institute. Steve Keen is an economist and author, one of the few who warned about the 2008 crisis in advance. He is known for his critique of mainstream neoclassical theory and his models of debt... Read More
US Dominance Is Crumbling… Here’s Why Iran Matters
• March 25, 2026
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Nima Alkhorshid: Hi, everybody. Today is Wednesday, March 25, 2026, and our dear friends, Richard Wolf and Michael Hudson, are here with us. Welcome back, Rich and Mike. Richard Wolff: Good to be here. Nima Alkhorshid: Let me start with just updating what is happening right now on the battlefield between the United States and... Read More
Iran, Israel, and World War III
• March 21, 2026
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Robinson Erhardt You’ve been on the show and joined me a number of times now, but we’ve rarely spoken about the contemporary situation in the United States in our foreign policy. We tend to talk more about history, I’d say. So, I wanted to ask — just to begin — why it is that you’re... Read More
Persia’s Monopoly Concessions to Britain, 1872-1901
• March 14, 2026
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Leaders in Latin America, North Africa and the Middle East saw the prosperity of industrial Europe and wanted their own countries to achieve similar affluence. European promoters played on their hope that foreign investors and bankers would build railroads and canals to transport produce for export and earn the foreign exchange needed to modernize their... Read More
What Is Occurring Is Really WORLD WAR III
• March 12, 2026
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NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, March 12, 2026, and our dear friends Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson are here with us. Welcome, Mike, Richard. MICHAEL HUDSON: Good to be here. RICHARD WOLFF: Glad to be here. NIMA ALKHORSHID: Yeah. Let me start today with you, Richard, and with what has happened, you know,... Read More
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Iran’s Grand Plan to End U.S. Presence in the Middle East
• March 9, 2026
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Iran and Donald Trump have each explained why failure to fight the current war to the end would simply lead to a new set of mutual attacks. Trump announced on March 6 that “There will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender,” and announced that he must have a voice in naming or at... Read More
Today’s Global Choice – A U.S. Ruler-Based Order or International Law
• March 7, 2026
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The foundational principle of Western international law, from the 1648 Peace of Westphalia that settled Europe’s Thirty Years War to the 1945 United Nations Charter, has been national sovereignty free from foreign interference and coercion. And if wars must be waged, they are supposed to spare civilians and non-belligerents. These gentlemanly principles have not characterized... Read More
US-Iran War
• March 2, 2026
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Last Friday the mediator of the U.S. and Iranian nuclear negotiations in Oman, that country’s foreign minister Badr Albusaidi, pulled the rug out from President Trump’s deceptive pretense threatening war with Iran because it had refused his demands that it give up what he claimed was its drive to build its own atom bomb. The... Read More
Destiny of Civilization – Financialization & Collapse
• February 21, 2026
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GLENN DIESEN: Welcome back. We are joined today by Professor Michael Hudson to discuss the direction of civilization. So thank you very much for coming back on. ⁣MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, thanks for having me again, Glenn. ⁣GLENN DIESEN: So I’m thinking when we assess the economic, political, and social condition today, I can’t help but... Read More
How Hyper-Imperialism Shapes Global Conflict
and • February 2, 2026
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Welcome to another Class Unity speaker event. Today, we will be joined by authors Vijay Prashad and Michael Hudson to discuss hyper-imperialism, imperialism, and the state of global politics. Michael Hudson is a professor of economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, and the author... Read More
Weaponizing the World’s Oil Trade Is the Bedrock of the U.S. Rules-Based Order
• January 13, 2026
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Iran (1953), Iraq (2003), Libya (2011), Russia (2022), Syria (2024), and now Venezuela (2026). The common denominator underlying the U.S. attacks and economic sanctions against all these countries is America’s weaponization of the world’s oil trade. Control over oil is one of its key methods for achieving unipolar control over the world’s broad trade and... Read More
The Economic Unravelling of the Political West
• December 27, 2025
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GLENN DIESEN: Welcome back to the show. We are joined today by Professor Michael Hudson to discuss the U.S. national security strategy and the unraveling of the post-World War II economic order. So thank you very much for coming on the program. ⁣MICHAEL HUDSON: Thanks for having me back in this ongoing unfolding dialogue. Things... Read More
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Trump Floundering Efforts to Shore Up US Hegemony
• December 20, 2025
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The National Security Strategy’s Drive to Shed the Costs of Imposing Its U.S. Unipolar Empire The one area in which the National Security Strategy makes a claim to be realistic is to recognize that the United States cannot directly be seen to impose its control by force. This task is to be delegated more to... Read More
The Strange Case of Europe’s Decline
• November 7, 2025
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[In this interview I had abbreviated the Nexperia seizure as being about batteries. It was actually about the wafers and chips that go into the control systems of batteries and other automotive systems. Without seemingly marginal processes such as controlling windows and doors, the supply lines of auto manufacturers and other industries will be interrupted.... Read More
US Cannot Win the War
• October 2, 2025
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NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi everybody. Today is Thursday, October 2, 2025, and our friends, Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson, join us today. Welcome, Richard and Michael. ⁣MICHAEL HUDSON: It's good to be back. ⁣NIMA ALKHORSHID: Michael, let's start with you. You were talking about that urgent meeting that Pete Hegseth had with generals and admirals. And... Read More
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Trump’s Destruction of US Economy, Starting with Agriculture
• September 19, 2025
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Trump has created a crisis for U.S. agriculture with his Cold War weaponization of foreign trade with China and Russia, for manufacturing as a result of his steel and aluminum tariffs, for consumer price inflation mainly from his tariffs, and for affordable housing with his tax cuts that have kept long-term interest rates high for... Read More
Trump Attacks Europe, Korea, Japan, Forcing Them to Subsidize & Move Industry to US
• September 16, 2025
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U.S. cold warriors have failed to prevent Russia, China, Iran, and other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) from obtaining their economic independence. That means keeping the fruits of their economic growth for themselves, rather than letting it be drained off by U.S. banks, investors, consumers, and the U.S. Treasury through the monetary dollar... Read More
Trump’s Economic War Against Europe, Korea and Japan
• September 11, 2025
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Most discussion of the past week’s SCO and BRICS meetings understandably have focused on the rising strength of their multilateral alternative to America’s attempt to impose its unipolar world control under its own rules calling for other countries’ subordination to U.S. demands to concentrate all the gains from trade and international investment in its own... Read More
SCO and BRICS 2025
• September 6, 2025
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Eurasia’s Re-alignment in the face of Late Stage Barbarism The Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s meetings in China last week (September 2 and 3) took a remarkable step forward in defining how the world will be dividing into two great blocks as Global Majority countries seek to free their economies not only from Donald Trump’s tariff chaos,... Read More
Eurasian World Order – New Global Governance
• September 4, 2025
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Prof. Glenn Diesen: Hi everyone and welcome back. We are joined today by Michael Hudson, one of the world’s great political economists to discuss the development of a multipolar international economic system indeed being built as we speak in China. So welcome back to the program. Prof. Michael Hudson: Well, thanks for having me. So... Read More
Trump Declares WAR on Russia in Alaska
• August 14, 2025
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NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, August 14th, 2025, and our friends, Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson, are back with us. Welcome back. Let me start, Michael, with you. You believe that Donald Trump is going to the meeting to declare war on Russia instead of making a deal with Russia. What's your point... Read More
Who Writes the New Rules as Power Shifts Away from the US?
• August 13, 2025
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1. How do you view Southeast Asia’s market opening to the US? Even if they open their markets, as Japan also just did, this doesn’t mean that Asian countries are actually going to import more American autos or American rice or American products, because Asians prefer Asian cars, like so many Americans prefer Asian cars.... Read More
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How the World Can Free Itself from US Financial Colonialism
• August 6, 2025
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Economist Michael Hudson describes how the Western powers designed the international financial, legal, and political system in a way that benefits North American corporations at the expense of the countries of the Global South. Hudson also proposes ways for the Global Majority to resist US neocolonialism, in this interview with host Ben Norton. Podcast
From Babylon to Wall Street – How Bankers Make You Poor
• August 2, 2025
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Jonathan: Michael, welcome back to the podcast. Michael Hudson: Well, it’s good to be back. Thanks for having me. Jonathan: Michael, I know we’ve rereleased a podcast that you did three years ago and the remarkable predictions that you made, just as the Ukraine, Russia conflict was getting going. Before we do that though, I... Read More
Europe's Surrender
• July 31, 2025
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NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi everybody, today’s Thursday, July 31st, 2025, and our friend Michael Hudson is back with us. We don’t know if Richard is going to join us yet because it seems that there is a problem in New York City with the energy and the internet. And let’s see if he can join us... Read More
Trump, China, AI, and the Untold History of Economics
• July 20, 2025
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Robinson Erhardt: Michael, you have just written a book that rewrites the financial history of the West from the Crusades to World War One, and there are a lot of questions I could ask here just to get us started. But first, why does this history need rewriting? Is it easy to point out just... Read More
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How the Global Majority Can Free Itself from US Financial Colonialism
• July 18, 2025
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Industrial capitalism was revolutionary in its fight to free Europe’s economies and parliaments from the hereditary privileges and vested interests that survived from feudalism. To make their manufactures competitive in world markets, industrialists needed to end the land rent paid to Europe’s landed aristocracies, the economic rents extracted by trade monopolies, and interest paid to... Read More
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The U.S. Empire’s Plan for Global Domination
• June 27, 2025
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War on Iran is part of the US empire’s larger attempt to re-impose its unipolar dominance on the global political and financial system, argues economist Michael Hudson. Washington wants to preserve dollar hegemony and the petrodollar, while disrupting BRICS and Eurasian integration with China and Russia. Hudson explained this in the following interview with Geopolitical... Read More
War on Iran Is Fight for US Unipolar Control of World
• June 24, 2025
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Opponents of the war with Iran say that the war is not in American interests, seeing that Iran does not pose any visible threat to the United States. This appeal to reason misses the neoconservative logic that has guided U.S. foreign policy for more than a half century, and which is now threatening to engulf... Read More
The Collapse of America's Economic Empire
• June 18, 2025
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GLENN DIESEN: Hi everyone and welcome. Today we are joined by Michael Hudson, Professor of Economy, to discuss the strategies for the American Empire. Now when we look at empire, we often tend to look at military capabilities and deployment but, as we know, empires also require an economic foundation. So to explore this, we’re... Read More
The Next War Could Shatter the U.S. Economy
• June 12, 2025
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NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, June 12, 2025, and our friends Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson are back with us. Welcome back, Richard, Michael. RICHARD WOLFF: Glad to be here. NIMA ALKHORSHID: Let me start with what Tulsi Gabbard published yesterday, which is so important when it comes to her position in the... Read More
Adam Smith, Marx, and BRICS’ Struggle
• May 29, 2025
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NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi everybody. Today is Thursday, May 29, 2025 and our friends Richard Wolf and Michael Watson are back with us. Welcome back. RICHARD WOLFF: Glad to be back. Thank you. NIMA ALKHORSHID: Michael, let's get started with you. How is the current global fracture between the Western economies and the global majority similar... Read More
The Catholic Church, the Crusades, and the Origins of International Banking
• May 10, 2025
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LOGO DAEDALUS: Well, I just wanted to say thank you. First off, your books have been extremely important to me. I’ve done, I think, some good work in helping to popularize them on Twitter or X, I guess we’re calling it these days. But when I first found your work, I was really coming from... Read More
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Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of The Bubble and Beyond (2012), Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1968 & 2003), Trade, Development and Foreign Debt (1992 & 2009) and of The Myth of Aid (1971).

ISLET engages in research regarding domestic and international finance, national income and balance-sheet accounting with regard to real estate, and the economic history of the ancient Near East.

Michael acts as an economic advisor to governments worldwide including Iceland, Latvia and China on finance and tax law.