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Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss the evolution of the US dollar system after it was taken off the gold standard in 1971.
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- Eurasia
Dollar system in crisis: The real reason the US bailed out Japan
Major study shows world sees USA as biggest threat, and prefers China
Even American war hawks now admit Iran is defeating the US – and it will change the world
Trump’s failed China trip shows his trade war backfired, and US corporations are desperate
Trump boasts ‘we’re like pirates’, seizing Iran’s ships, as China challenges US sanctions
- Latin America
How USA & Israel put drug cartel-linked US citizen in power in Colombia
Costa Rica deepens alignment with US-backed right-wing forces, with victory of Laura Fernández
Donroe Doctrine: Trump attack on Venezuela is part of imperial plan to impose US hegemony in Latin America
Trump admits he wants to take Venezuela’s oil – and give it to US corporations
Trump frees drug trafficker: US meddles in Honduras’ elections, amid fraud accusations
- Africa
West refuses to condemn slavery in UN General Assembly vote
As Trump threatens BRICS, it grows stronger, resisting US dollar and Western imperialism
BRICS expands to 54.6% of world population by adding Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country
BRICS expands with new partner countries. Now it’s half of world population, 41% of global economy
BRICS grows, inviting 13 new ‘partner countries’ at historic summit in Kazan, Russia
- USA
Dollar system in crisis: The real reason the US bailed out Japan
How USA & Israel put drug cartel-linked US citizen in power in Colombia
Americans are NOT wealthy: The truth about the US economy
Major study shows world sees USA as biggest threat, and prefers China
Even American war hawks now admit Iran is defeating the US – and it will change the world
- Economy
Dollar system in crisis: The real reason the US bailed out Japan
Americans are NOT wealthy: The truth about the US economy
How China prepared for the new global food crisis, caused by the US war on Iran
Is another financial crisis brewing in the US economy? Economist Michael Hudson explains the dangers
The war on Iran is transforming the global economy: Economist Michael Hudson explains how
Economy
The US intervention to prop up the yen is not just about Japan, but about a crisis in the dollar system. Washington doesn’t want...
Economy
Media outlets often claim Americans are wealthier than Europeans, but it's not true. Average wealth looks high, but is skewed by extreme inequality. US...
Economy
The US-Israeli war on Iran has unleashed a massive global food crisis. China is prepared, because its state-owned enterprises maintain the largest grain reserves...
Economy
Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain the end of the British empire's sterling area with the rise of the US dollar system, its...
Economy
Economist Radhika Desai discusses her book "Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy". A free PDF copy is available, in addition to a video...
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Ecuadorian economist and former presidential candidate Andrés Arauz explains Latin America's attempt to create a new currency and regional financial architecture, to challenge the...
Economy
Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain the relations between money and debt, their role in imperialism, and the rise of the US dollar...
Economy
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...
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What is inflation? What causes it? What are the problems in how the Federal Reserve and other central banks respond to it? Economists Radhika...
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The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis published a jaw-droppingly misleading graph that portrays China as spending more on its military than the US....
Economy
Brazil and Argentina are making plans for a Latin American currency called the Sur, to "boost regional trade and reduce reliance on the US...
Economy
BRICS is "developing a fairer system of monetary exchange" to challenge the "dominance of the dollar", South Africa revealed. Saudi Arabia is considering selling...
