Hey, everyone.

This is Ben Norton, and I'm joined by a friend of the show, one of our favorite guests, Michael Hudson, the economist.

His reputation precedes him.

Many of you probably know him.

You can go to Michael-hythun hyphen Hudson.com and check out his excellent

articles and his books. We had him on a few months ago to talk about the new third edition

of his book, Super Imperialism, the Economic Strategy of American Empire. And today we're going to talk

about the inflation crisis around the world.

In the U.S. in 2021, there was inflation around 7%. And this has led to a lot of discussion about

what is causing the inflation, why there's inflation. And Professor Hudson has pointed out for many

years that inflation in the U.S. and

other countries is often, it's often measured in a very strange way that doesn't include

housing prices and doesn't include what he calls the fire sector, finance, insurance, and real

estate. So today we'll talk about the rising rates of inflation and what corporate media outlets are missing about the story.

But before we begin talking about that, Professor Hudson, another reason I wanted to have you today is to talk about a big story that went viral.

It was just published today.

And in fact, it's on the website Wall Street Parade and it went so viral that the

website actually went down because it was being shared so much. But this is an article just published

at wall street unparade.com. I have it up on the archive just because the website's down.

And the article is titled,

there's a news blackout on the feds naming of the banks that got its emergency repo loans.

Some journalists appear to be under gag orders.

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