Military vessel and that he doesnt think its there for the reason that were being given and he wanted to warn the entire world about this he says his train plowed as you could see right there under a highway overpass thank god it skidded to a stop just before hitting the ship. I want to do something for you now National Mental Health Officials are advising all of us to look out for each other at this time theres a telephone number that i want to give you right now this is the u. S. National help hotline this is the number that you should call if youre having a tough time dealing with this particular situation and you want to call them its 180662 help 18066 to help thats the u. S. Government National Help Hotline for Mental Health issues meanwhile theres another breaking story that were following for you right now this one involves 2 cruise ships off the coast of florida that are said to have as many as 100 or more passengers who may be ill there is at least one passenger who has alread
Citizens terrorists least. Illegitimate seizure of. The government offices which taken over. Those are your headlines this hour you can find out more at r. T. Dot com up next on Arch International it is the kaiser report and in the u. K. And ireland it is boom bust stay with us. Hey welcome to the cons report the 1st episode out of 2020. States here are not going to have some really special guest right with us right now dr Michael Hudson dr michael and welcome to be here i was just curious i have as crazy image moment ago you know back in the seventys 1970 s. There was a movie called death wish with Charles Bronson to remember that i remember that there was a sequel in the sequel to that right now sink in that we could do a remake you are the star you play the Charles Bronson role is called death wish and here vigilante banker economist that goes around new york blowing away bad debt where you think i love it and set that up you think youre ready to do that 2020 i would be a very good
Vigilante and im the austin economist and we meet and 42nd street and do you blow me away with your 45 magnum debt equalizer or do we have a discussion about this well i say theres a basic principle of debt that a debt is only valid if you make if the debtor can repay it but if of a lender makes alone without any idea how the debtor can repay it then the loan is considered a fraudulent loan so i would define fraud and begin of a large debt write down also a secretary of the treasury i would be in charge of text policy and id minimize housing prices id roll them back down by basically taxing the Capital Gains of land so that when value gains if you would tax the speculative gains and land the under and income not the building but the land youd. Nobody could borrow from the banks to inflate housing prices so id end the asset Price Inflation of real estate and b. S. The Price Inflation of corporations and basically restructure the economy in the way that it could afford to handle good deb
Vigilante and im the auster economist and we meet and 42nd street and do you blow me away with your 45 magnum debt equalizer or do we have a discussion about this well i say theres a basic principle of debt that a debt is only valid if you make if the debtor can repay it but as of a letter makes a loan without any idea how the debtor can repay it then the loan is considered a fraudulent loan so i would define fraud and begin of a large debt write down also a secretary of the treasury i would be in charge of techs policy and id minimize housing prices id roll them back down by basically taxing the Capital Gains of land so that when value gains if you would tax the speculative gains and land the under and income not the building but the land youd nobody could borrow from the banks to. Inflate housing prices so id end the asset Price Inflation real estate and b. S. The Price Inflation of corporations and basically restructure the economy in the way that it could afford to handle good debt
A fantastic im not sure thats what were talking my head into the ring actually we have elections coming up here in this year 2020 or of course part of our epic new series front running so if you were made treasury secretary in 2020 what would you do this year 2020 so i guess you would come into office 2021 in january 2021 would be the 1st thing you did to fix this economy or let it sit down with the attorney general and say were really going to apply the law and of course if you applied the law a lot of bankers would find themselves in jail yeah apply the law debt westray to the Charles Bronson of economists right i began to underline the quantitative easing but the Interest Rates rise again and that would leave a lot of banks pretty make good and we would have some wonderful public banks a city bank would be a public bank and chase and let Interest Rate rises and public banks. Wouldnt make lent loans for the stock market and speculation and for corporate takeovers wed make loans to ac