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Sunday, July 10, 2011

The Big Banks Are Waging Warfare Against the People of the World


Michael Hudson is a highly-regarded economist. He is a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, who has advised the U.S., Canadian, Mexican and Latvian governments as well as the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. He is a former Wall Street economist at Chase Manhattan Bank who also helped establish the world’s first sovereign debt fund.

Hudson says:
  • The European debt crisis is really financial warfare by the banks
  • Indeed, the banks are in warfare against the rest of society


In a separate interview, Hudson says:
  • What's going on in Greece is exactly what's going to happen in America in a couple of weeks.
  • The big banks are forcing their bad debts on government
  • They are also forcing governments to sell off national assets so the banks can install a "neo-feudalism":


As I documented last month in a post entitled "America Is Being Raped ... Just Like Greece and Other Countries", America is in fact being subjected to the same type of plundering as Greece and Ireland.

Professor Hudson explained in 2008:
You have to realize that what they’re trying to do is to roll back the Enlightenment, roll back the moral philosophy and social values of classical political economy and its culmination in Progressive Era legislation, as well as the New Deal institutions. They’re not trying to make the economy more equal, and they’re not trying to share power. Their greed is (as Aristotle noted) infinite. So what you find to be a violation of traditional values is a re-assertion of pre-industrial, feudal values. The economy is being set back on the road to debt peonage. The Road to Serfdom is not government sponsorship of economic progress and rising living standards, it’s the dismantling of government, the dissolution of regulatory agencies, to create a new feudal-type elite.
I reported last year:
Foreign Policy magazine ran an article entitled "The Next Big Thing: Neomedievalism", arguing that the power of nations is declining, and being replaced by corporations, wealthy individuals, the sovereign wealth funds of monarchs, and city-regions.
As I noted in 2009, a leading progressive economist that the true purpose of the bank rescue plans is "a massive redistribution of wealth to the bank shareholders and their top executives".

As the wholly non-partisan Australian economist Steve Keen notes:
  • "This is the biggest transfer of wealth in history", as the giant banks have handed their toxic debts from fraudulent activities to the countries and their people
  • The big banks blew bubbles - using fraud - because that's the only way they could make obscene profits (see this for for details)



Indeed, this isn't the "Great Recession", it's the Great Bank Robbery. The big banks have pillaged and looted the rest of the world.

And it is not only Greece which is losing its sovereignty ... the big banks have turned America into a banana republic as well. Remember, the trillions in bailouts went to banks, not Main Street ... and a large percentage of the bailouts went to foreign banks (and see this). And so did most of money from the second round of quantitative easing.

Indeed, the warfare by the big banks is global.

Postscript: If this sounds like breathless class warfare against the financial sector, remember:
  • The father of modern economics - Adam Smith - didn't believe that inequality should be a taboo subject
  • Warren Buffet, one of America's most successful capitalists and defenders of capitalism, points out, "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war ...."
  • Conservatives - as well as liberals - are against rampant inequality. But all Americans underestimate the amount of inequality in our country

5 comments:

  1. Yes, it's outright plunder. And we can only do one thing: true socialism.

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  2. War on US = Treason. Select politicians from jury pool = No money in politics. Abolish money - require work. Repeal (Bush "laws") & Prosecute Party.

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  3. Is it something in the water because it seems like the University of Missouri, Kansas City, has the only economists on the planet that understand how the economy works? Prof. Hudson, Bill Black, Randall Wray, Scott Fullweiller, Marshall Auerback and all the others at the NewEconomicPerspectives site appear to be only ones who dare speak the truth (present company excluded).

    Every time I hear some dunderhead says that the US is "borrowing" money from China or elsewhere it just drives me crazy....or that the US, who creates money by changing the numbers in bank accounts with a computer, can somehow go "broke"....or any of the other facts Mosler pointed out in his '7 deadly frauds' pdf.

    As long as our citizens remain willfully ignorant of how the world changed when we went off the gold standard, we will continue to suffer the lies and destructive ideologies of oligarchs.

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  4. You know, the funny thing is the "American people" may be morons, but when it gets to the point of actually paying off this debt (austerity) the answer will be a resounding NO!

    The "savior state cartel" will fail and a new world will be born.

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  5. I agree that you are describing things accurately, but your commenters are ahead of you, apparently.

    Apparently.....

    This is the old action ...... reaction ....... result thing! The banks are merely corporations, they are peopled and they have other allegiances. Clearly the banks have been pillaged, but no assets were destroyed. Merely liabilities. You clearly are not an economist, nor an accountant. Probably not a lawyer either!

    Valuations of stocks, bonds and pension funds are far too high and depression values are clearly lower. The credit expansion caused all this and that meant assets were made some of which have enduring value.

    Money is what is under attack and that clearly is related to sovereignty. NWO is coming, that is all.

    You know it too, so why so naive in presentation, George?

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