What causes inflation? Economists Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson explain
In this episode of Geopolitical Economy Hour, economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss inflation: what it is, what causes it, and what are the problems in how the Federal Reserve and other central banks respond to it.
Argentina is trapped in unpayable odious debt owed to US vulture funds like BlackRock and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This is fueling extreme inflation and far-right demagogues such as Javier Milei, who are calling for dollarization, adopting the dollar as the country's currency.
Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/05/25/argentina-us-dollar-inflation-neocolonialism
How Argentina has been trapped in neocolonial debt for 200 years: An economic history: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/12/18/argentina-neocolonial-debt-history
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Multipolarista editor Ben Norton was invited on Al Jazeera English to discuss the judicial coup in Argentina against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on December 6 and the congressional coup in Peru against Pedro Castillo on December 7.
Watch the full Al Jazeera video here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9uyMyBGaznQ
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Mexican President López Obrador took a historic trip to Cuba, where he called for an end to the US blockade and criticized right-wing “coup-plotters.” He said Latin America should form a union, amid “the economic decline of the United States.”
Meanwhile, Mexico, Bolivia, and 14 Caribbean nations have vowed to boycott the Summit of the Americas in California if the US government refuses to invite Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
Read more at https://multipolarista.com/2022/05/10/cuba-mexico-amlo-us-blockade/
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The US military "investigated" itself for massacring a family in a drone strike on the way out of Afghanistan... and what a coincidence, it decided it is innocent!
(This video was originally published on November 18, 2021.)
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Greece’s former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis explains the US system of “neo-imperialism” based on the dollar, an “IOU issued by the hegemon”, which finances a huge trade deficit by letting foreign capitalists “extract colossal surplus value from their workers and then stash it away in America’s rentier economy”.
Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/03/us-imperialism-dollar-hegemony-yanis-varoufakis
German lawmaker condemns ‘US-led proxy war against Russia’ and EU’s ‘servile vassals’: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/28/german-lawmaker-us-proxy-war-russia-ukraine-eu
Varoufakis' full speech: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6MfuGSlDRsc
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I joined the radio show By Any Means Necessary on January 21 to discuss the Joe Biden inauguration and how the new Democratic administration is continuing in the warmongering, imperialist, neoliberal steps of Barack Obama and other past administrations. I address his policies on Venezuela, Iran, Israel, Libya, the economic crisis, and more.
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After helping to orchestrate the war on Iraq, neoconservative war criminal John Bolton now wants a war on China.
(This video was originally published on October 5, 2021.)
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The US military spends more than the next 9 biggest countries combined. The expected 2023 Pentagon budget is $840 billion. Donald Trump and Joe Biden have spent $220 billion more than even cold warrior Ronald Reagan.
Research by Stephen Semler at https://stephensemler.substack.com
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A scholarly explanation of the history of the deep state, a top-down structure used by capitalism to subvert democracy and maintain unaccountable corporate power.
This is PART 10 of the Empire and the Deep State series Multipolarista editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast.
PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL
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