Money on the Left has the podcast The ECASH Act with Rohan Grey.

In this special episode, Rohan Grey (@rohangrey) joins Billy Saas (@billysaas) and Maxximilian Seijo (@MaxSeijo) to discuss the “ECASH” or “Electronic Currency and Secure Hardware” Act. Introduced by Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA-08), Chair of the House Committee on Financial Services’ Task Force on Financial Technology, and based on Grey’s research on electronic currency, the ECASH Act directs the Secretary of the Treasury to develop and pilot digital dollar technologies that replicate the privacy-respecting features of physical cash.

This is a wonderful concept that I had not known about until this podcast. I had been thinking that government sponsored digital cash could look like a credit or debit card, but this conversation carries the idea way beyond that.

Popular Resistance has the post Michael Hudson: US Dollar Hegemony Ended Abruptly Last Wednesday.

On Wednesday, March 23, 2022, the United States announced that it would freeze Russia’s access to its gold. Russia has the fifth highest amount of gold in the world. Economist Michael Hudson explains that this action, which follows the US seizing Venezuela and Afghanistan’s gold and assets, has effectively ended dollar hegemony, which has been in decline in recent years, and the free ride that the US has enjoyed abroad.

The Michael Hudson part starts at 28 minutes into the audio. As a follower of Modern Monetary Theory, I am pleased that Michael Hudson straightened out the seeming paradox between what Hudson wrote in this book “Super imperialism” and the rest of his writings about MMT.

Where the financing of USA deficits comes in is in our foreign trade. The deficit does not finance domestic trade. Except for Michael Hudson and Fadhel Kaboub, most MMT proponents have not talked about the foreign trade implications of MMT.

Naked Capitalism has the post NATO-Russia Proxy War: Revealing Signs of a Fading America: Michael Hudson. You can read the transcript here or listen to the interview at the Global Research post NATO-Russia Proxy War: Revealing Signs of a Fading America: Scott Ritter, Michael Hudson. At Global Research, the Michael Hudson part is in the second half hour.

Here is the opening salvo from Michael Hudson.

MH: I think it’s just the opposite of what you said. The war isn’t against Russia. The war isn’t against Ukraine. The war is against Europe and Germany. The purpose of the sanctions is to prevent Europe and other allies from increasing their trade and investment with Russia and China, because the United States saw that the centre of world growth is not in America now that it’s deindustrializing. Following neoliberal policies since the 1980s has ended up hollowing out the US economy. And how on earth can the United States maintain prosperity if it’s lost the ability to do wealth creation?

I have never heard Michael Hudson lay it out quite so bluntly as he did in this interview. If more people could hear this, they might change their mind about what is actually happening with Russia/USA/Ukraine.