Renegade Economists Show 163 As broadcast on 3CR – Dec 8th, 2010 Professor Michael Hudson delves through the murky world of economics, espionage and Wiki Leaks freedoms. The reference to Randall Wray re Bank of America is via neweconomics. Listen here Subscribe to the podcast
Cyber Rents
Renegade Economists Show 162 As broadcast on 3CR – Dec 1st, 2010 Subscribe to the podcast Cyber Rents: IT expert Jim Stogdill discusses how rent rakers curtail innovation and undermine the future of the internet. Listen here Read his stirling article Points of Control = Rents. Jim finishes off the article with this apt quote: On a related note, last … Read More
Hudson on China’s Export Irrelevance
photo credit: JosephLeonardo Renegade Economists podcast Professor Michael Hudson discusses the G20 plans (austerity for prosperity), natural monopolies as wealth extracting machines and China’s possible isolationist future in light of its increasingly useless trade surplus. Listen here Music by Lucky Dragon
What Can’t Be Hidden from Revenue
Phillipe Legrain First published in The Times as Tax land: it can’t be hidden from the Revenue Filling the gaping hole in the Government’s finances is, in George Osborne’s words, the “great national challenge of our generation”. Unwise spending cuts and tax rises could sap economic growth; unfair ones provoke political unrest; inaction a market panic. Faced with a national … Read More
Melanesian Land Issues interview
photo credit: M0les Renegade Economists podcast Joel Simo from the Melanesian Land Defence Group visited Australia recently via an Aid Watch. Listen to his interview on the Renegades here… In discussion with Green Left Weekly Joel says: Customary land title represents the majority of land tenure in Fiji and Vanuatu and provides locals with food security. This security provides certainty … Read More