{"article":{"id":220327,"heading":"Interview with Michael Hudson on the Worsening Debt Crisis","author":"Mike Whitney","created":"2008-09-10 16:30:38","modified":"2008-09-10 16:30:38","last_modified":"Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:30:38","article":"<p>Michael Hudson is an economist and author who worked on Wall Street and advised Dennis Kucinich. <br><br> to read the interview published in: www.counterpunch.org, click on <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/whitney09082008.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/whitney09082008.html<\/a><\/p>\n","contact":"mbatko@lycos.com","link":"http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"&quot;Fannie and Freddie have been loading up on risky mortgages for ages, under-stating the risks largely to increase their stock price so that their CEOs can pay themselves tens of millions of dollars in salary and stock options.&quot;","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2008\/09\/220327.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}