Michael Hudson Quotes, Thoughts and images

The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

What's bad for the frackers usually is good for the rest of the world.

You have a choice. Either you can have more oil or more clean water. Fracking is not good for the water supply.

Nobody prefers to earn income anymore, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.

High housing prices don't help the economy. They raise the cost of living.

You have the economic vocabulary turning into the vocabulary of deception.

Paying debt service to banks leaves less income to buy goods and services.

To save the banks, you would have to turn the entire Eurozone into Greece.

Trump's claims that he's making taxes more democratic for the people, but it is a vast sucking of income and wealth upward.

We're still in the collapse that began after 2008. There's not a new collapse, there hasn't been a recovery.

To the deficit commission, depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem.

When you say "paying the banks," what they mean is paying the bank bondholders. They are the One Percent.

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labour, wages go up.

Inflation usually helps the economy at large, but not the 1% if wages rise. So the 1% says that it is terrible.

That's the "magic" of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer.

Trump's junk economics is the illusion that if we cut the taxes on the wealthiest brackets, it'll all trickle down. But it doesn't trickle down.

On the flat tax, the more you compress the tax rates, the more you untax where the income is made, at the top of the pyramid.

Either you can save the economy, or you can save the One Percent from losing a single penny.

The United States Government has fought against the creation of an international court to adjudicate the ability of national economies to pay debts.

I think we're in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the policy, clean up.

Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States.