Reform the Money

"The Way We Were and What We Are Becoming" with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson.  We begin with an analysis of the continuing bailout of insurance giant AIG and Monday's stock market selloff; price and debt deflation; the two sectors of the economy; two definitions of 'free markets'; the classical economists; revolution from the right and the former Soviet states; the threat of war; IMF/World Bank resurgence; the dollar versus the euro; analogies to Rome, neo-feudalism. Download Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com Source: KPFA Guns & Butter Aired: 3/4/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

GUEST: Richard Cook is an author, consultant, and publisher with interests in public policy, economic and monetary reform, and much else. He's also a former US government analyst and 1986 whisleblower who exposed multiple layers of cover-up after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster that year. Cook is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Discussion will focus on his recent writing, including his December 15 article: Bailout for the People, "The Cook Plan." Download Richard C. Cook's website is: http://www.richardccook.com Source: Republic Broadcasting Network Global Research News Hour Aired: 3/03/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

GUEST: Catherine Austin Fitts is an investment advisor, entrepreneur, former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner under GHW Bush, and former Managing Director and board member of the Wall Street firm, Dillon Read & Co, Inc. She's now the editor of Solari.com and runs Solari, Inc. It's an "online media company focused on ethical investment and preserving family wealth. Long ago, (she) made a promise (never again to) act against the best interests....of (her) own people (and to do her best) to leave a better world for generations to come." Her current investment advice: "Bail out of Wall Street." The global economic crisis and Catherine's work will be discussed. Download Catherine Austin Fitts' website is http://www.solari.com/ Source: Republic Broadcasting Network Aired: 1/27/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

GUEST: John Williams is a consulting economist and editor of the Shadow Government Statistics web site and electronic newsletter. He calls government data manipulated, corrupted, and unreliable and reverse engineers it for a more accurate assessment of economic conditions. The current economic crisis will be discussed on the program. Download John Williams's website is: http://www.shadowstats.com/ Source: Republic Broadcasting Network Aired: 1/19/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

GUEST: Michael Hudson has had a long, varied, and distinguished career as a Wall Street analyst, leading economist, expert on financial history, and Research Professor at the University of Missouri. He's also an author, consultant, and president of the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (INSLET). Hudson is fiercely critical of the Bush administration's efforts to bail out Wall Street, reward the criminal elements that run it, hollow out America in the process, and hang the public out to dry. The Obama economic "dream team" will be discussed and the likely way it will deal with the nation's greatest ever economic crisis. Download Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com Source: Republic Broadcasting Network Aired: 12/22/08 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

GUEST: Richard Wolff is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts and is well-known for his work on Marxian economics, economic methodology, and class analysis. He's written numerous articles and books on topics ranging from modern imperialism; the economics of colonialism; rethinking Marxism; class theory, structures and history; the current economic crisis, and much more for over 40 years. In a recent public talk, he said capitalism was hitting the fan at a time of the greatest crisis in his lifetime. He presented a Marxian analysis and proposed a socialist solution. That topic will be discussed on the program. Download Richard Wolff's website is: http://www.rdwolff.com/ Source: Republic Broadcasting Network Aired: 12/1/08 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

GUEST: Michael Hudson has had a long, varied, and distinguished career as a Wall Street analyst, leading economist, expert on financial history, and Research Professor at the University of Missouri. He's also an author, consultant, and president of the Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends (INSLET). Hudson is fiercely critical of the Bush administration's efforts to bail out Wall Street. Reward the criminal element that runs it. Hollow out America in the process, and hang the greater public out to dry. The current financial crisis and its seriousness will be discussed on the program. Download Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com Source: Republic Broadcasting Network Aired: 11/10/08 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

GUEST: Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author and analyst of the Us monetary system. Her latest book is titled "Web of Debt" in which she analyzed the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." How this private cartel usurped money creation power. To print and control its supply, price, and to charge government interest on its own money. Ellen Brown's writings on the current financial crisis and the Bush administration's "bailout" of Wall Street are published by Global Research. That topic will be discussed on the program. Download Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com Source: Republic Broadcasting Network Aired: 11/3/08 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

"The New Kleptocracy" with economist Dr. Michael Hudson on Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's "Plan" passed by Congress on October 3, 2008.  We discuss what is being purchased, the congressional vote, what this means for the oligarchs, and what this means for the rest of us. Download Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com Source: KPFA Guns & Butter Aired: 10/8/08 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

Former US Treasury Department analyst Richard C. Cook joins us to offer his opinion on monetary reform and how to fix the economy. Download Richard C. Cook's website is: http://www.richardccook.com Source: The Corbett Report Aired: 9/12/08 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

GUEST: Richard C. Cook is a former U.S. federal government analyst, whose career included service with the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury Department. He is a frequent contributor to Global Research focussing on the US financial meltdown. He is the author of a forthcoiming book entitled We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform, Tendril Press. He is also the author of Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age, called by one reviewer, “the most important spaceflight book of the last twenty years.” Discussion will focus on the Economic Crisis Download Richard C. Cook's website is: http://www.richardccook.com Source: Republic Broadcasting Network Global Research News Hour (mp3) Aired: 9/01/08 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

GUEST: Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Brown's eleven books include the bestselling Nature's Pharmacy, co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker, which has sold 285,000 copies. Download Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com Source: Republic Broadcasting Network Aired: 4/28/08 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

GUEST: Richard C. Cook is a former U.S. federal government analyst, whose career included service with the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury Department. His articles on economics, politics, and space policy have been published by numerous websites including Global Research. His book on monetary reform entitled We Hold These Truths: The Promise of Monetary Reform is in preparation. He is also the author of Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age, called by one reviewer, "the most important spaceflight book of the last twenty years." Discussion will focus on Cook's new book on monetary reform entitled We Hold These Truths: The Promise of Monetary Reform Download Richard C. Cook's website is: http://www.richardccook.com Source: Republic Broadcasting Network Global Research News Hour (mp3) Aired: 4/14/08 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

Interview with economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson, on his book in progress, “The Fictitious Economy: How Finance Is Destroying Industrial Capitalism and Paving a New Road to Serfdom”. We examine what is meant by the term “fictitious” as the concept is applied to aspects of today’s economy. We take a look at the role of war and the demise of the dollar, the bubble economy, and what could unfold in the future. Download Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com Source: KPFA Guns & Butter Aired: 08 (no longer available) Source: noliesradio.org Guns & Butter Aired: 1/1/08 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

Interview with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. On today’s program we discuss former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s legacy. Alan Greenspan has published an autobiography, “The Age of Turbulence”. We look at Alan Greenspan’s role in 1982 as the head of the Commission on Social Security; his eighteen-year role as Chairman of the Federal Reserve; as architect of dollar devaluation; and his role in the 1999 repeal of New Deal Legislation - The Glass-Steagall Act. Download Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com Source: noliesradio.org Guns & Butter Aired: 9/26/07 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.