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I think I’m just going to move out and buy a cheaper house.” So it’s very risky when you have only a 3% or 3.5% equity for the loan. The bank really isn’t left with much cushion as collateral.

Michael Hudson

Inflation usually helps the economy at large, but not the 1% if wages rise. So the 1% says that it is terrible.
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Economy Helping Wages
If you want to see where Trump is moving, look at what the United States neoliberals advised Russia to do after 1991, when they promised to create an ideal economy.
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Country Moving People United States
New investment and employment fall off, and the economy is falls into a downward spiral.
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Downward Economic Employment New Spiral
Seventy-eight percent of millennials are worried about not having enough good paying job opportunity to pay off their student loans. Seventy-four percent can’t pay the health care if they get sick.
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Eight Jobs Opportunity
Money is not a factor of production. But in order to have access to credit, in order to get money, in order to get an education, you have to pay the banks.
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Factor Get Money Order
Russia was under the impression that the neoliberal advisors were going to make Russia as rich as the United States. What they really did was create a kleptocracy that was virtually tax-free.
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Country Investment People Trade
When you say “paying the banks,” what they really mean is paying the bank bondholders. They are basically the One Percent.
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Mean Percent Really
We’re still in the collapse that began after 2008. There’s not a new collapse, there hasn’t been a recovery.
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Collapse Recovery Stills
It thought that if it could subsidize banks lending homeowners enough money to buy houses from people who are defaulting, then the bank balance sheets would end up okay.
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Homeowner Money Okay People Sheets
The essence of the global financial bubble is that savings are diverted to inflate the stock market, bond market and real estate prices rather than to build new factories and employ more labor.
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Bond Employ Estate Market More Season
Much higher cost for all the infrastructure that he’s proposing. You could call Trump’s plan “public investment to create private profit”. That’s really his plan in a summary.
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Investment Plan Proposing Summary
When people are running up more and more debt for housing, they call that “real wealth.” It exposes what’s wrong in the mainstream economics and why most of the economics that justifies austerity programs and economic shrinkage is in the textbooks is not scientific.
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Mainstream People Real Running
$Michael Hudson Quote - What’s bad for the frackers usually is good for the rest of the world.$

What’s bad for the frackers usually is good for the rest of the world.
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Bad Good World
You’re having government spending on the economy being cut almost everywhere. That means that the only source of spending for growth has to come from borrowing from the banking system.
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Cutting Government Mean
The other dynamic keeping the stock market up – both for technology stocks and others – is that companies are using a lot of their income for stock buybacks and to pay out higher dividends, not make new investment,.
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Engineering Government Technology
And then the parasites have another enzyme that takes over the host’s brain. It makes the host imagine that the parasite is part of its own body, actually part of itself and hence to be protected. That’s basically what Wall Street has done.
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Actually Host Parasite Protected

I think I’m just going to move out and buy a cheaper house.” So it’s very risky when you have only a 3% or 3.5% equity for the loan. The bank really isn’t left with much cushion as collateral.

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I think I’m just going to move out and buy a cheaper house.” So it’s very risky when you have only a 3% or 3.5% equity for the loan. The bank really isn’t left with much cushion as collateral.

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