Geopolitical Economy Report

17/09/2025

Why is Donald Trump imposing tariffs and unequal treaties on longtime US allies like Europe, Japan, and South Korea?

Economist Michael Hudson explains that Trump's imperial strategy is to force them to pay imperial tribute and move their factories to the US.

04/09/2025

The US government has long tried to divide China, India, and Russia, but Washington's aggressive actions have only brought them together.

Donald Trump's tariffs, in particular, angered Indian PM Modi, who visited the Chinese city Tianjin for the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, where the Eurasian countries deepened their relations.

The US empire's aggression is blowing back.

31/08/2025

Even mainstream American economists are now warning that the end of US dollar dominance could come very quickly. The global power of the dollar has been declining for years, but Donald Trump's aggressive and chaotic policies have further encouraged foreign investors to sell off US assets.

28/08/2025

The dominance of the US dollar as the global reserve currency has been gradually declining for years, but Donald Trump's policies are rapidly accelerating de-dollarization and the transition to a more multipolar international financial order.

28/08/2025

We interviewed prominent Chinese academic Zhang Weiwei. He discussed how China’s government, political system, and socialist market economy actually work; and how China sees democracy, the USA, and Donald Trump’s trade war.

How do China's government, political system, and socialist market economy work? How does it see democracy? Prominent Chinese academic Zhang Weiwei explains in this sit-down interview with Ben Norton.

19/08/2025

Economist Michael Hudson explains why corporate landlords on Wall Street are buying up real estate to charge monopoly rents.

This is a result of the system of financialized capitalism, dominated by an unproductive rentier class.

17/08/2025

The largest owner of residential housing in the Spanish capital Madrid is the Wall Street private equity firm Blackstone.

US investment firms are buying up houses around the world, driving up the costs of rent.

15/08/2025

Private equity funds and other Wall Street investors are buying up houses across the US (and in other countries), driving up rent and the cost of living, making homes unaffordable for average people.

13/08/2025

Economist Michael Hudson describes how the US imposed a neocolonial financial system on the world -- and how the countries of the Global South, which represent the Global Majority, can fight back.

11/08/2025

The world is in a time of significant change. The US-led West designed the international financial, legal, and political system in a way that benefits North American corporations at the expense of the countries of the Global South.

But the Global Majority is rebelling, resisting US financial colonialism.

04/08/2025

Donald Trump is blatantly meddling in Brazil's political affairs to destabilize democratically elected left-wing President Lula da Silva and try to help far-right former leader Jair Bolsonaro, an obedient US ally who launched a failed coup attempt.

The US empire also seeks to weaken BRICS and divide Brazil and China.

02/08/2025

The White House imposed 50% tariffs on Brazil and declared it a threat to US "national security".

Donald Trump is blatantly meddling in internal Brazilian affairs, trying to undermine left-wing President Lula da Silva, while seeking to divide BRICS and discourage more countries from joining the Global South-led multipolar project.

(The next part of this video will discuss how Trump is also trying to help his far-right Brazilian ally Jair Bolsonaro.)