On Contact: The history of debt forgiveness

Economist and author, Michael Hudson, in his new book “…And Forgive Them Their Debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year,” shares with journalist Chris Hedges how Ancient cultures forgave debt cyclically to prevent debt peonage and the rise of an oligarch elite. Find RT America in your area: Or watch us online: Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter http://t