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Killing the Host
How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
Hudson, Michael
Publisher: CounterPunchYear Published: 2015
Pages: 356pp Price: $12
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In Killing the Host, economist Michael Hudson exposes how finance, insurance, and real estate (the FIRE sector) have seized control of the global economy at the expense of industrial capitalism and governments. The FIRE sector is responsible for today’s extreme economic polarization (the 1% vs. the 99%) via favored tax status that inflates real estate prices while deflating the “real” economy of labor and production. Hudson shows in vivid detail how the Great 2008 Bailout saved the banks but not the economy, and plunged the U.S., Irish, Latvian and Greek economies into debt deflation and austerity. Killing the Host describes how the phenomenon of debt deflation imposes punishing austerity on the U.S. and European economies, siphoning wealth and income upward to the financial sector while impoverishing the middle class.
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Subject Headings
- Austerity
- Bailing Out the Rich
- Capital Accumulation
- Capital Markets
- Capitalism
- Capitalist Crises
- Debt
- Debt Financing
- Debt Products
- Economic Crises
- Economic Depression
- Economic Policy
- Economic Recovery
- Economic Warfare
- Economics
- Economics/Free Market
- Economics/International
- Economy
- Finance
- Finance Capital
- Financial Crisis
- Financial Deregulation
- Financial Industry
- Financial Institutions
- Financial Literacy
- Financial Markets
- Global Economy
- Globalization of Economy
- Greece
- Inequality
- Insurance Industry
- International Banking
- International Business
- International Business Law
- International Debt Crisis
- International Economic Relations
- International Finance
- International Financial Institutions
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- International Trade Law
- Investing
- Investment
- Investment Banking
- Investment Capital
- Investment/International
- Investor Class
- Parasites
- Real Estate
- Real Estate Finance
- Real Estate Industry
- Real Estate Investment Trusts
- Recession Issues
- Stock Manipulation
- Superrich, The
- Tax Avoidance
- Tax Concessions
- Tax Evasion
- Tax Law
- Taxation
- Taxation & Insurance
- Taxation Issues
- Wall Street
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