{"id":47193,"date":"2019-07-13T07:29:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T12:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47193"},"modified":"2019-07-13T07:29:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T12:29:46","slug":"de-dollarizing-the-american-financial-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47193","title":{"rendered":"De-Dollarizing the American Financial Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gunsandbutter.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/07\/de-dollarizing-the-american-financial-empire\">De-Dollarizing the American Financial Empire<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Guest: Michael Hudson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.snappages.com\/ixh6f6\/assets\/blog_910875_3105257_1562531059.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Economist Michael Hudson continues his discussion of Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire with a focus on US monetary imperialism; President Trump\u2019s demand for lower interest rates undercuts America\u2019s requirement for foreign investment to fund its domestic and balance of payments deficit, increases the carry trade and turns IMF and World Bank policies on the US; analysis of US economic domination of the world from its position as the world\u2019s largest creditor post-WWI; analysis of US economic domination of the world from its position as the world\u2019s largest debtor after the 1971 close of America\u2019s gold window; emergence of the dollar-debt standard; how war has bankrupted the US; the difference between imperialism and super imperialism; US bribes foreign governments; China\u2019s banking system; China and Russia stockpile gold as the world breaks out of dollar domination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/644095785&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"100%\" height=\"250\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.snappages.com\/ixh6f6\/assets\/blog_910875_3119087_1562531060.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De-Dollarizing the American Financial Empire Guest: Michael Hudson Economist Michael Hudson continues his discussion of Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire with a focus on US monetary imperialism; President Trump\u2019s demand for lower interest rates undercuts America\u2019s requirement for foreign investment to fund its domestic and balance of payments deficit, increases the carry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[26252,7844,12502,3520,6279,3142],"class_list":["post-47193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-american-financial-empire","tag-donald-trump","tag-guns-and-butter","tag-imperialism","tag-michael-hudson","tag-us-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47194,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47193\/revisions\/47194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}